Fifteen years later, a developer dives into Antennagate that cost Apple $175 million

You weren’t holding it wrong. Fifteen years after iPhone 4‘s ridiculously named “Antennagate,” a coder has uncovered the mistake in 20 bytes of code that made the controversy as huge as it was.

Covering this break in the chassis edge could reduce signal strength

Previously on Antennagate… In 2010, users of the iPhone 4 found that signal strength drastically dropped depending on how they held the phone. If you think “scratchgate” proves Apple is not the firm it was under Steve Jobs, note that Jobs told users to hold it right.

Now, 15 years later, coder Sam Henri Gold has demonstrated which of Apple’s next reactions actually fixed the problem. It wasn’t the free bumper case Apple gave away, and it wasn’t the rambling lawsuits that ended with the company having to pay $15 to eligible buyers.

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