How do you tell the difference between a real iPhone and a clone?

The difference between a real iPhone and a fake one can save you a lot of trouble when you buy products from grandparents or other unknown people.

If you have ever feared that purchasing a iPhone apart from a reliable online store, which I do not recommend anyway, you could buy a fake, a clone, a counterfeit product, well in the video clip below you have a very good comparison that will help you distinguish between them before paying the money for them.

To make the difference between a real iPhone and a clone, you must first know what the real product looks like because there are certain very important elements that will help you differentiate between a product that was manufactured to Apple's specifications and one that comes from an obscure Chinese factory.

In the case of the video clip below, it is difficult to do the difference between a real iPhone and a fake one because the devices resemble each other extremely well, but there are some differences that a connoisseur will notice immediately and a beginner will, most likely, overlook them without realizing that they are throwing money down the window.

How do you tell the difference between a real iPhone and a fake one?

Here's how you do it the difference between a real iPhone and a fake one and what you should pay attention to:

  • a real iPhone is not placed in a bag, which is inside the box;
  • a real iPhone does not have any label with any QR code or any code on the films applied to the screen;
  • a real iPhone has the FCC or CE certification marks on the case, under the product code;
  • a real iPhone has the Lightning port surrounded by a thin layer of aluminum;
  • a real iPhone will not have documentation in the box exclusively in Chinese and written in gold;
  • a real iPhone will not have two accessories of the same type in the box;
  • a real iPhone will not have other applications, other than the official Apple ones, installed;
  • a real iPhone does not have a pronounced front camera;
  • a real iPhone will not open Spotify when you access the iTunes Store;
  • a real iPhone will not have a dialer in the FaceTime application;
  • a real iPhone has a brighter screen and more realistic colors;
  • a real iPhone has very good quality cameras.

What you can do with a fake iPhone

If you bought an iPhone clone, then you can use that terminal like a regular smartphone, but you won't be able to enjoy the applications available in the App Store and anything else that Apple offers, because that device runs a modified version of the system Android operating system.

Unfortunately, in this situation you made a mistake and it would be good to return the terminal, if you have the opportunity, possibly to file a complaint with the police if you paid a large amount of money for a counterfeit product, because you will not be able to use it ever like a real iPhone and you will not enjoy the same user experience.