Apple quietly kills its terrible FineWoven iPhone cases

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Hey, there were good intentions! When Apple revealed its new type of case, no longer offering leather cases for the iPhone 15 series, the

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was pitched as a leather substitute that used 68 percent post-consumer recycled content.

The material looked a little similar to leather in press shots, but the reality was a material that was smooth and scratchy at the same time, a surface that was almost as absorbent as Bounty with fingerprints and a fantastic opportunity for third-party iPhone case manufacturers.


When leather gets old, it gets... nicer? There's a patina. When Finewoven cases got even a few days old, it got scratched and blotchy. It's not a huge surprise, then, that there are no new FineWoven colorways, or any iPhone 16-compatible FineWoven cases, period. They're gone.

It isn't the end of FineWoven completely. The material will live on in a

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, available in four different colors, and

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. If you are looking for a new (but official) iPhone look, how about, randomly, these

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? They're not microtwill; they're hard plastic.


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