8 Times Apple Messed Up Really Badly

Apple's latest problem is the unintentional new "feature" in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Photos of bent phones were cropping up all over Twitter in what is now known as "Bendgate." One guy even bent a phone with his bare hands. It got so out of hand that Apple was forced to release an official statement on the matter.

There's now a hilarious meme that shows users how to "activate" the new bending feature that comes with every new iPhone 6 Plus. Hehe.

At this year's iPhone launch, Tim Cook announced that all 500 million users were getting U2's new album for free — even though they didn't ask for it. The backlash was real. People were very upset that the album was being stored on their iCloud accounts and that there was no easy way to get rid of it.

Apple eventually caved and launched an official one-click-to-delete website to remove U2 from users' accounts forever.

In one fell swoop, iCloud became Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, and Kate Upton's worst nightmare. The backup service was blamed for a round of hacked celebrity nude photos and the featured stars were not happy.

In response, Apple beefed up its security measures to make sure no nude selfie — from either a celebrity or mere plebeian — is exposed again.

She also wins for best use of Emoji.

This is the story of the update gone wrong. Apple released its new mobile operating system, iOS 8, to the delight of many iPhone users (including ourselves). But then, Apple pushed an update, iOS 8.0.1, that was just awful. Touch ID and cellular service simply stopped working on new iPhones.

What would Steve Jobs think of this? The long-awaited Apple Watch is not leftie friendly. The company's founder who was a famous left-hander himself wouldn't be OK with this.

When we tried the device on, Apple made sure we were wearing the watch on our left hands so we could interact with the display on our right. You will be able to set up the watch to orient itself for sure on the right wrist, but the digital crown will be upside down on the left side.

This mess up was major. Apple got rid of Google Maps as the iPhone's default navigation and replaced with their own. It was called Apple Maps, despite the fact that it was hardly a map. A Tumblr named The Amazing iOS 6 Maps was dedicated to the pitfalls of the app, which would often lead drivers very, very astray (like, into the middle of the ocean).

The then-newly appointed CEO Tim Cook even issued an unprecedented letter on the matter and offered some much better alternatives. Nice of him.

Ah, the iPhone 4 crisis of 2010. Apple's iPhone 4 failed to, well, be a phone. It suffered from antenna problems. The signal dropped every time someone picked up a phone. Apple held a special briefing on what it dubbed "Antennagate," which was so bad that AT&T actually let people out of their contracts.

OK, and now a real throwback. In 1993, Apple unveiled the MessagePad, a personal digital assistant developed for the Apple Newton platform. This iPad-before-the-iPad was noteworthy for its handwriting recognition software, except that it wasn't the greatest handwriting recognizer. You had one job, MessagePad!

The Simpsons mocked the tech in the episode "Lisa on Ice," in which a threatening memo is translated to something rather helpful.