How Much Titanium Is Really in the Titanium Apple Card?
We asked a scientist with an electron microscope.
An Apple Card getting tested in a scanning electron microscope.
Source: Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Apple’s new credit card, released in August, has been praised for its approach to privacy, for features that make it easy to see where your money is going, and for its minimalist aesthetic. “It’s the most beautifully designed card ever,” Apple’s Jennifer Bailey said when the company announced the card in March.
A support document for the card, which reads if it were the care instructions for a piece of fine jewelry, boasts of the laser etching used to imprint customers’ names, a “multi-layer coating process” designed to give the card a pleasing white matte finish, and the card’s material—titanium—a fact that’s mentioned 13 times in the document.