Does Helium Break iPhones?!
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Here’s a who-done-it for all you technophiles out there. A helium leak rendered 40 iPhones useless at a Chicago hospital. How? We ran some tests and figured out exactly why iPhones might be allergic to helium.
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They need a new IP rating to handle helium lol
Hahaha lmfao
Michael Cianciulli It doesn’t work on the iPhone XS and xs Max. They are IP68
@@DavidA20200 🤔
@@DavidA20200 Small molecule gas is smaller than water budsy , it'll work don't ya worry.
@@DavidA20200 Even if they are IP68 rated, they still can't block off helium gas molecules because of their size. The speakers on the iPhone XS and the max use a net-shaped thing to block off the water, but water vapour can still get through
This is gonna be a good prank
True! Just realize that there is a chance the phone may never recover. Source: ifixit.org/blog/11986/iPhones-are-allergic-to-helium
Let's see what 4Chan does.
Took too long to revive it, though.
Imagen someone does this to a friend and then they take the dead iphone to the apple store and end up buying a new one just to have their old one come back alive the next week
"why did my phone crash" in a high pitched voice
This is really cool. I would have never guessed this.
Hey, you’re not only making repair guides now. You’re also making destruction guides. (:
ricky v. Jerry rig every thing might have something to say about that
gotta break it first so they can get more views on the repair vids :P
Not really destructing it
Embrace the Darkness LOL
I know right.
:)*
Well that was interesting.
So, now what? A #HeliumGate?
Yeah, how am I gonna use my iPhone in a leaking blimp ?
Start the hashtags
Nithyanadhan .V Well not much people put their phone in a bag and fill it with helium so it’s ok.
Expensive-gate
This is completely unacceptable. At their price, iPhones should not have to deal with atoms and molecules.
Who the fuck puts their phone in a helium bag doe?
Damn right!
So Apple is at fault just because their phones can‘t handle a fucking gas that doesn‘t even naturally exist down here?
might as well make phones from quantum flux at that price range, eh?
iF I pAY EnUf $$ I sHoulD bE aLLowEd to bREAk tHE LaWS oF pHySIcs
Next time it will be allergic to Oxygen
Next iPhone will also possibly be allergic to Nitrogen and Carbon Mono/Dioxide.
Jerygomez After opening the package the 70% nitrogen in the atmosphere instantly disable the device.
Your iPhone must be unboxed in a chamber filled with inert gas to prime the system.
actually, all are allergic to Oxygen, thats where rust comes from.
P.S: dont r/whooosh me please, I recon a joke :P
Set an iPhone next to an O3 generator for a day with high output - the device will have made a bigger crater than Samsung's Cellular Incendiary Note Device that just required opening the package to trigger personal injury and property damage as far as I understand it.
*_I guess I’m going to carry helium everywhere now!_* 😂
アレキサンダー 佐藤 how to be a total douchebag 😂
You are evil
How necessary was the bold and italics
Master Robotnik So you would do something that will surely get you in trouble and even take you in court.
Just think about someone with a recently dead relative and you decided to “prank” him disabling his phone... yeah.
You people are absurd
@@ilpatongi So if you have a recently dead relative no one in the world is allowed to prank you even though no one else even knows that you have a recently dead relative? Might as well ban jokes then, because any joke you say no matter what you say might be offensive to someone. Wanna joke about oranges? No can't do that, someones relative died from choking on a orange seed. Wanna joke about milk? Nope, someone slipped on milk and got paralyzed. Wanna joke about jokes? Nope, someone died shortly after being at a stand-up comedy act.
Oh crap now my $1000 phone can't withstand helium.
SNSD Sunny this only affects older iPhones
like you would come into contact with high concentration of helium half as much as water...
Tyler Evans the report stated iPhone 7’s and 8’s which the iPhone 8 utilized the same internal design as the X with a couple small exceptions but internally it was almost identical.
$1000 technological advance device vs one of the most harmless substances in the universe
@@MossPalone inhaling high concentration of helium can cause fatigue.
New IP69 rating: helium resistance, next to water and dust...
Actually, IP69K exists. IP7X will be better
@@startergate ip 69 is for Pressure Water resistant like from an Presure Washer like Kärcher
Niklas Buchholz yes? He said that it exists and that name wouldn’t be applicable..
6 9
You need a 3rd digit to indicate helium resistance. In IP68, 6 is for dust, 8 is for water.
Red should name their next phone Red Helium to poke fun at.
Hydrogen has the same effect on iPhones tho. Any light gas will do
One of RED's 8k camera sensor already carries the helium name
It would make sense anyway since it's the next element after hydrogen. If they even make another phone lol
That's a Super 35 camera.
Alright all my friends with iPhones prepare for April fools! 😏
Wow such an interesting incident. Thanks for reporting this iFixit!
Gonna run out and buy helium balloons to prank all my iPhone friends.
Apple iPhone Xs. Now with helium detection feature!
It is not a bug but a feature!!!!
> Turns lights off
> Go to play games on iPhone
> Hear really creepy high pitched voice, "Go to sleeeeep."
> Phone turns off
> Piss pants.
Here comes uboxs “iPhones have a huge problem video”
It is a huge problem. Helium is a common element
beat kids no in fact we are running out of helium.
@@the7311 We are, but it is still a common element.
Compared to many, we are very likely to run into it day to day
beat kids so you run into enough helium every day to the point that it will kill an iPhone if you had one?
@@the7311 It's entirely possible. You shouldn't defend a massive design floor in a device. If this was an Android phone, a Symbian phone, a Windows Phone, I would still say the same thing. This is a BIG design issue.
Alright I'm going to school with a helium tank so I can shut down all the iPhones as a prank.
*mems chip* one letter short from perfection
*memes chip*
@@kbhasi MATCHING PROFILE PHOTOS, *MEMES BROS*
Ever heard of the memz Trojan
my dumb ass didn't understand this until i realized you meant "letter"
@@edwnx0 ooo shit, thx bro
* high pitched voices *
hey man did your phone crash?
yeah.
lol how weird mine too
I got free replacement for my iPhone because of this little trick 😂😂
Damn, there's no way they can detect it.
Lol..Legendary
Why would you want to replace it?
Gamer4Life a free new iPhone? Who wouldn’t take it?
Great host. Well spoken without being cheesy. Bravo.
Android weakness: battery life
Apple weakness: Earth's atmosphere
jimbob9631 helium is present in the earths atmosphere at 5 parts per million . I don’t see how apples weakness is earths atmosphere
Androids have better battery life tho?
@@freddybell8328 lol
@@aryangandhi3311 It's a joke. Get over yourself.
A computer clock is meant to sync up all the different part of the computer system, ALU, chache, ram.. etc not produce electricity as noted in 1:00
A Nokia 3310 would break the helium.
That is dope! That is awesome that you guys made a video on this. So cool!
I'm not sure if I understood it right.
So the helium went in to the oscillator, so that the resistance sank and the oscillator arms swang faster (like the
vocal cords while breathing helium)? But if all parts are clocked by the same oscillator, wouldn't that just make the processing faster? Or is the problem, that it's to fast for some parts and so it shuts itself down to prevent damage?
2. question: So this would also happen with hydrogen?
Marcel Gabriel when there gets to be too much helium inside, the frequency drops from 32 kHz to 3 kHz. At that point anything it’s clocking shuts down.
Probably the electronics that the MEMS device is connected to (that tiny die you see is the support electronics, the actual MEMS is much smaller) can detect when it goes wildly out of spec and shut down to save a) the MEMS arms from breaking and b) the connected electronics from operating way too fast. Both of those could kill your phone *really* dead instead of “just resting”.
No, it does not happen with hydrogen. H2 molecules are muuuuuuch bigger than He molecules which are just one atom. The most obvious candidates to try would be the other stable noble gases, Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton.
@@JasperJanssen
Right. I just thought about the H-atom, but of course it's olways H2.
@@JasperJanssen
Do you really mean "32kHz to 3kHz"?
Because you say "... operating way to fast ..." and I also thought the clock would go faster like the vocal cords vibrating faster resulting in a higher pitch.
Helium is actually the smallest gas because it has a full electron shell of 2 electrons.
Hydrogen might seem smaller with less electron and stuff, but hydrogen mostly exists as a molecule with itself, H2, ie 2 atoms wide.
Helium is still smaller.
My iPhone broke. Better call the hospital.
I doubt that they could HELium
I can see people falsifying warranty claims and getting a new iPhone...
Not really since the phone starts working again after awhile.
@@techguypaul it took iFixIt's iPhone 24 hours for it to work again. That's more than enough time for an Apple store employee to give a warranty replacement.
@@AndrewMackoul Not really. Especially since they know about this stuff.
@@techguypaul But how would they tell? Unless you walked into an Apple store with a super high squeaky voice requesting a replacement, all they would have is a dead phone that won't power on.
@@brandonfrancey5592 they know the questions to ask. Plus, you likely wouldn't get a Genius Bar appointment before it starts working again.
Im gonna give a Helium bag to an Apple Thief and say He shall Put the Phone in there
Woow helium is kryptonite for iPhones. There goes the $1,000 plus dollar metal brick
Well, to be fair, a run in with helium is rare. Under normal circumstances, run in with helium is almost impossible because when helium escapes, it wants to escape the atmosphere. This was only discovered because of the MRI machine and the helium leak. It's not a common occurrence. And of course, I dont expect too many people putting their phones in a bag full of helium.
Thats so cool. Makes machines seem more organic. iPhones : "Helium. My only weakness. Aaaah"
Well we all now know that aliens can't use iPhones.
And you can't use in space i guess.
Space has vacuum not helium
Space is a vacuum so it wouldn’t have any helium present and if so a very small amount I mean if you bring it to Jupiter your gonna have a bad time
@@samyakparashar5741 A vacuum would also break it, I think
yes because space is 100% helium
@@misaroorasim Oh wow, I didn't know, it would definitely break the iPhone then
My iPhone: Owner, I don’t feel so good
*Fades*
Me: You’ll he alright don’t act dramatic
But Apple phones aren't any skinnier than androids...
Brings a small bottle of helium to a Apple store
What about adding poison gas detector chip to all devices that warning dangerous environment and probably can save lives? Innovation 😎
how? tell me
Just fills an entire apple store with helium gas leaks.
1:53 it looks like faster than 1:51 just fast forward or actually overclocked?
Looks like fast forward...
Excellent investigative video
Excellent Anchor too
On point
How does the Helium Stop the Clock? It get's into the Chip and then?
Then, the tiny midget running his treadmill inside the chip suffocated, then, a new and fit one gets flown in, usually within a few hours. Satisfied?
kazefalke Well written comment. Blind Apple haters won’t understand this.
@@FastestCores duh blind people can't read
The Helium changes the voice of the chip to sound like a chipmunk and so all the other components can't work because they just keep on laughing.
@Samsung Galaxy S7 i think that it normally has bigger atoms/molecules in it and helium is so tiny and in nature it is one-atom "molecule" so it's so small that it can go trough the chip's seal
Pretty interesting video, thanks iFixit!
ugh, lots in this video is wrong.
"there was a helium leak that occurred in the building at the same time" no, the helium was from the MRI. it was massive amounts of helium, since they were brining the magnet down to superconducting temperatures (they boiled tens of liters of helium). There was an HVAC malfunction that caused it to be circulated around the building instead of vented.
"quartz oscialltors aren't skinny enough for apple's designs" wtf? where's your source on this? seems like you just made this up. these are more likely used for cost reduction.
So did everybody have squeaky voices while the He circulated in the building? :)))
@@DanSlotea nope, concentration wasn't that high
They are currently more expensive than quartz oscillators. They are, however, like ten times as small in board size and about half the thickness.
Which one of you is right?
What are your qualifications?
JayJapanB I suggest you do your own research rather than trusting random people in UA-cam comments.
Lol when your phone parts are so small that molecules get lodged in them 😂😂😂 wtf
Apple now ll say this is a feature to sa save our users.
Let's bring helium balloons next time to the Apple event lol😁😁😁
This is going to be the next big thing on youtube! LOL
Remember when the teacher filled the room up with helium. wait what?
heliumgate
The Androids have launched their first attack, the iPhones are falling.
I'm allergic to iPhones..
Me too
Zishan allergic to the price ? 😂
@@h773M even if it's free, I'd sell it and use the money to buy something else. I can't stand iPhone.
Delusional apple haters spotted
@@Anderson_Hwang an Apple sheep spotted
Thanks for the very interesting video! Great investigative work, too!
iPhone is also allergatic to my pocket 😔😔😔😔
What you give out helium
Shreyas Sonavane join English class...it will b benificial for u.....
Well I think a better tittle for the video would be “THIS BALLOON TURNED MY FREAKIN PHONE GAY!!!”
Good information...
That was some hardcore debugging
I want to make a joke about sodium but Na...
i wanna make a joke about helium, but I cant stop laughing he he he he he
Me: *releases helium in Apple store*
I ate an apple once
Then I switched to android
Just watch me open a helium tank In chemistry class and watch everyone’s phone break 😂😂😂
weird funny and sad all in one and interesting
what about the other apple products? would Ipads, apple watch, macbooks have the same issue?
So helium gate. funny how its apple devices have all these weird issues and repair scandals. I guess people dont really care as long as they have imessage.
Nice vid.
iPhone users be like: "o shit I dropped my phone in helium again"🗿
Helium is not a molecule. Yes, I'm that guy. :)
@@amii665 I love you! :))
@@aliozanerbektas and positive hydrogen ion = proton :D
@@turtleb01 Tecnically that depends on the isotope of Hydrogen that we are talking about as the nucleus of the 2H isotope also contains a neutron
Helium is both an atom and a molecule. For the noble gases they happen to be the same thing.
@@JasperJanssen Well, a molecule is defined as two or more atoms. Since helium is just 1 atom, it's not a molecule. H2O is a molecule, but He is not.
Fantastic! Is this true of current models sounds like newer chips might have been fixed!
Something’s not right here. consider this… if there was a leak that released enough helium in the air to ruin all those iphones in the vicinity, wouldn’t that be like. A serious problem for PEOPLE? Breathing issues? Lack of oxygen? Everyone talking funny? In a place where many patients may already have breathing issues? I can’t imagine that a massive helium leak would be a routine occurrence, seems like a pretty major issue to me. Also, many android devices are all about miniaturization as well, don’t many of them use a MEMS chip as well? Probably the very same one considering Apple is just using an off the shelf part.
I'd want to know if it works at high altitude. I'm currently living in a city that is at 3,500 feet, and I know they have to calibrate the furnaces here to work in such low atmosphere conditions (usually just a double speed combustion fan)
At Mount Everest type elevations, humans will eventually die because of distance between oxygen molecules.
I also wouldn't mind a device that actually works to -30 degrees, as most seem to die around -15 to -5 degrees. Not everyone lives in California. For that matter, how about a drop test at knee height or even six inches at -15 Celsius (everything becomes super brittle at temperatures like that)
@@babelfishdude the issue here is the battery. The voltage a battery supplies drops as the temperature decreases there is not many practical solutions to this well maintaining the same performance levels.
What tends to happen with newish technology that Apple decides to use is that they will literally prebuy most of the production - between the iPhone X and 8/8plus, I think they’ve used something like 200 million of these devices in the past year or so. You can still buy them on Digikey so clearly the supply isn’t *entirely* going to Apple, but I’m not sure there would be enough of them left to put in, say, the S9, which is not exactly a small number of reels itself. And it’s not impossible that Apple got exclusivity on using it in smartphones for 3 or 5 years - that’s also something they do (usually in exchange for lending you enough money to build enough factories to make all the stuff they need). I mean, yeah, the terms are onerous, but also, they are the best customer in the industry, so sometimes hitching your wagon to ‘em works out.
When the production capacity scales up and exclusivity wears off I will bet the best and brightest android devices will start using these as well. Probably things like the Pixel series before the Galaxy, because it’s easier to order 3 million than 30.
What, is this a joke? Leaked helium is going straight up to the top of the atmosphere
Heliumgate!
That iPhone is a paid actor 😀😀
there you go android fanboys, now you have a new reason to hate apple
You know your phone isnt worth the extreme price tag when it literally dies to fucking A I R.
Are there other devices that use this type of timing chip, or are Apple devices the only ones that really have this issue?
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, it seems to be a pretty obscure issue that very few people will come across. On the other hand, the cause was a new timing chip design that wasn't needed and that only serves the purpose of making the phone a tiny bit thinner. Making the phone a few fractions of a millimeter thinner doesn't help the end user, it arguably hurts the sturdiness of the phone and makes it a little harder to hold if you have large hands, and only serves the purpose of giving them something to brag about in advertisements. It doesn't seem worth the trade-off when you get issues like this (as well as the fact that they could have made the phone thicker and included a thicker battery, as well as made the phone more sturdy overall). And this helium issue could impact people who work in chemical labs (as well as hospitals). It may be incredibly rare, but it's still worth considering if you work with these types of gasses.
Nmotsch idontwannagivemyrealname I agree on the fact that they could’ve included a bigger battery, but don’t agree about thinner = worse/less sturdy..
Though to be honest phones are already thin enough and I’d rather have something the size of a Note 9 with its larger battery.. it’s like a few mm thicker but has a much bigger battery...
@LastWh1spr Incorrect.. the iPhone X has 3GBs.. which is very low for it's time.. even if we don't mention the price.. the iPhone XS Max's 4GBs is kinda low too..
I'd agree with people who say iOS doesn't need much RAM.. but apps are gonna start needing more and more and if Apple continue to fall behind then it's gonna be bad for the owners if these phones get obsolete quickly as apps become more memory demanding..
@@TheMasterOfSafari I can run extensive FEM Simulations with 8 GB RAM on my workstation. 4 GB should be more than a phone app could ever need.
@@MarianKeller well first off those simulations often cache to a disk anything that isn't actively being worked on. So its not totally a fair comparison.
Second the ram on a phone is also used by the gpu as well making it way more important. Not saying 4 isn't enough. Just that its not an apples to apples comparison
TheMasterOfSafari you may not want to hear it, but it’s still true: iOS as an OS is very well tuned to using very little ram, and iOS apps are tuned to running on low-ram devices. On the other hand Android is neither.
With older iOS devices - this mainly applies to older iPads, because people actually *use* 5 year old iPads - what you will notice is relaoding tabs more often when you switch from one tab to the next, that sort of thing. But they still function just fine.
I don’t think I’ve noticed anything missing from iOS apps that’s due to lack of ram. It’s all the other Apple restrictions that you feel.
PS: ram takes power. Regardless of whether you use it at the time or not. So (even aside from the purchase price) going from say 3 to 6 GB costs you either a measurable amount of battery life or a fair bit of grams in extra battery to compensate. It’s not a victimless trade-off.
This channels name is ifixit... this video is about destruction....
Irony?
It's a meme chip!!!! Y'all got hella trolled by apple!!!!
So what we learnd is if you are going to an expedition to Jupiter Dont take an iPhone with you 🤣.
Or saturation diving.
Heliumgate
No water needed to prank ur friends though 🤣🤣
Classic Apple quality breaks for the simplest things
CREATOR SW yep simplest tings everyone has helium at home
CREATOR SW STFU
@@Maykay1312 i have helium at home
Helion is so comum at homes (talking with a deep voice)
CREATOR SW what?
Where?
Only time I get helium in my house is when I buy balloons with it inside
And I wouldn’t say the phone breaks but shuts off until it can “recharge” it’s self back on or whatever the case is
Is this the iPhone 6s and below? You only mentioned the 7 and 8, so presumably that means iPhone 7 and onward, but what about older iPhones? I’m curious now
androids better
EDIT: Why do I feel like I am asking for dislikes
Time to drop a leaking helium tank in an apple store.
And people still buy this overpriced shit phones lol
Are you around helium that much?
FBI well, no, it only happens to phones and other devices using MEMS oscillators instead of quartz. Which currently means the iPhones from no more than one year old plus Apple watches. Don’t worry, Samsung’s flagships will start using it somewhere in 2020 and the rest of the industry will follow by 2025. These things are not just straight up better than quartz - waaaay smaller, less power use - they’re also going to be cheaper to manufacture at scale eventually, although currently they’re still a lot more expensive.
PS: between the power use and the room on the circuit board allowing you to stuff more battery in, changing over the oscillator probably gains you whole *minutes* of battery life on a charge.
why haha so the only thing you can come up wiht is that you think that i am jealous? lol. do better next time dude.
moral of the story, don't bring your 1k$ apple phone to kids party with helium balloons
2:16 "iPhones are allergic to helium" Lol
Awesome and informative video! Learn something new everyday
"IPHONES ARE ALLERGIC TO HELIUM"😂😂
What a productive use of one of earths fastest depleting resources!!!!
this is one one of best innovative one for a long time from Apple. good one
Spends hundreds of dollars for a device that's allergic to helium meanwhile you can literally dip a samsung device with the same price into a pool
Agh yes because we all breathe and use Helium, Apple needs to release a press release on this! Lmao
For those who want pick on apple in the comments read the link in the description. Android pones still use a old quartz oscillator while Apple started to use more modern MEMES time oscillators which are way smaller and less prone to temperature changes but as a tradeoff they have this issue with small molecule gasses.
Apple indirectly saved a hospital’s helium.
i'm gonna go to an apple store with a helium canister now haha
wait, if there was a helium leak, what did everyone in the hospital sound like??
Samsung is gonna have a field day trolling apple.
The fact that small molecular gases like helium causes iPhones to stop working, even if it's just temporarily, is just too funny. Haha.
Honestly thought this was clickbait, but wow how interesting actually.
Apple doesn't want me to get close to any iPhone xD
Android - universe of endless possibilites
Apple - your not planning to go past the stratosphere are you?