Corning Unveils New Scratch Resistant 'Gorilla Glass Victus' That Could Be Used in Future iPhones

Apple partner Corning today unveiled its latest product, which it is calling Gorilla Glass Victus. Gorilla Glass Victus is more scratch resistant than previous versions of Gorilla Glass, and Corning says that manufacturers who use it for their devices will see significant gains in drop and scratch performance.


Corning shared a video showing off Gorilla Glass Victus surviving a series of tests, including drops of up to two meters. In a Knoop Diamond Scratch Test, the Victus glass was able to withstand an 8 Newton Load, beating out competing products that were tested alongside it, and it was also able to withstand more pressure and more drops before succumbing to breakage.

Corning regularly comes out with new versions of Gorilla Glass that are more impact resistant, but improved scratch resistance has been harder for the company to improve upon in a significant way.

Devices made with Victus glass should be able to better withstand scratches, but they still won't be invulnerable. When The Verge asked Corning VP Jaymin Amin if bits of dirt, sand, metal, and other materials could still cause a scratch, Amin said that kind of caveat would likely apply to "any glass material." Gorilla Glass Victus, though is able to "reduce those instances quite dramatically."

Corning has been a longtime Apple supplier, with Gorilla Glass used in devices across Apple's product lineup. Apple in 2017 provided Corning with $200 million for research, development, and new equipment as part of Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund. Apple provided another $250 million in late 2019.

Corning told The Verge that at least one smartphone manufacturer found Victus to be so much better than Gorilla Glass 6 that it has decided to put a thinner layer of the new glass on its devices instead of maximizing durability, but there's no word on which manufacturer this was.

Samsung will be the first manufacturer to introduce a product with Victus glass in the coming months, and other unspecified manufacturers are also working on devices with Victus Glass.

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Top Rated Comments

svenning Avatar
60 months ago
Every generation seems to be twice as strong and scratch resistant as the previous. Yet my iPhone 11 Pro is just a scratched up and broken as my iPhone 4 was ?
Score: 46 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bigboy29 Avatar
60 months ago
What is funny about this is that "victus" apparently translates as "defeated" from Latin.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
SkyRom Avatar
60 months ago
Do you ever think NASA, Apple, Stanford and Corning already developed the greatest glass 15 years ago and they're just cashing in incrementally moving us toward Corning Gorilla Hologram Carbon Fiber Unobtainium-Adamantium-Vibranium Composite Invisible Parallel Dimension Glass 18X2.IV ?
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DocMultimedia Avatar
60 months ago
Every year this gets announced. Every year half my friends have a cracked screen within two months of getting their new iPhone. Whatever.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dz5b609 Avatar
60 months ago
Are we finally getting "scratches at a level 7 with deeper grooves at a level 8"
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sunapple Avatar
60 months ago
“Glass is glass and glass breaks.”

“Most smartphone screens see light scratches at level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7.”

Can this new glass exceed current standards? Only one way to find out.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)