IPhone 15 Pro Has 3 Times More Aluminum Than Titanium, Says ex-Apple Metallurgist

Former Apple metallurgist Ganiyu Jaiyeola is "injured" because Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon “falsely, deceptively, and fraudulently” advertised the iPhone 15 Pro as being a titanium phone, said Jaiyeola’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 23-4027) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in his bid for injunctive relief to stop the ads (see 2312150041). The alloys in the iPhone 15 Pro include aluminum and titanium, but the iPhone 15 Pro is not a titanium phone because the device has “at least three times more” aluminum alloy than titanium alloy, said the brief. Jaiyeola “knows the alloy composition” of the iPhone 15 Pro because he worked on the iPhone 15 at Apple, it said. Jaiyeola was a senior subject-matter expert at Apple from February 2022 to Aug. 8, where he developed “a pH-dependent chemical cleaning method” for the iPhone 15, it said.