Apple doesn’t want you to use iPhones with cracked display, here’s how it may stop you

Apple iPhones in the future may come with a system that will notify the users about a damaged display using a crack detection resistor. In a patent that has been granted to the Cupertino-based tech giant by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the company highlights how it wants to offer a mechanism that will solve the problem to unnoticed cracks on the iPhone display or restrain those who choose to continue to use an iPhone that has a broken display.

According to a report by Apple Insider, the patent — titled Electronic device display with monitoring circuitry utilising a crack detection resistor — Apple wants to add a section called “bent tail portion” to the edge of a display.