26% of iPhones Break Within 2 Years

About 25.6 percent of iPhone owners experienced a failure in the first two years of use, according to warranty data from SquareTrade. If you have teens or college-age children, you might say the failure rate is higher than that.

The typical but it’s actually below the industry’s average, according to SquareTrade. The expected failure rate over a two-year period was 33 percent one year ago, when SquareTrade only examined the iPhone and the iPhone 3G.

Most of the failures (18.1 percent) result from accidental damage, while only 7.5 percent are a result of a hardware malfunction. Touchscreens are most likely to fail, followed by power supplies.

26% of iPhones Break Within 2 Years [REPORT]