GADGET GURU'S MAGIC BOX

GaGu has received many messages about iPhone 17 Pro Max discolouration issues.

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He hears that the aluminium bits of some of the premium phones have turned from lurid orange to something closer to rose gold, leaving the back of them looking like, to quote one reader, "a cobbled together jumble of parts". Can Guru help? No! He is no alchemist. If whatever chemical reaction caused the problem has happened to you - and it's probably something to do with UV, a punishment for those bougie enough to use a 1,30,000 phone without an opaque case and then leave it in the sun - that's a question for Tim Cook.