Someone decided to fold the Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 times

Update: August 5, 2025 (10:14 PM ET): The Korean YouTuber has completed his manual folding test of the Galaxy Z Fold 7, reaching an impressive 200,000 folds over the course of five grueling days. The goal was to evaluate how the phone holds up under real-world usage conditions. Samsung claims the new display can withstand over 500,000 folds, and so far, that appears to be accurate. After 200,000 folds, the inner display showed no dead pixels, maintained accurate touch response, and exhibited no major issues, aside from a slightly more pronounced crease.

That said, there were a few hiccups along the way. Around the 175,000 mark, the phone’s speaker stopped working. Earlier in the test, between 6,000 and 10,000 folds, the device experienced a reboot error. At approximately 46,000 folds, the cringe started making a persistent creaking noise.  After 75,000 folds, an unidentified liquid was seen seeping from the hinge area, but it disappeared later. Apart from these issues, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 remained functional overall.

Original article: August 4, 2025 (1:15 AM ET): A Korean tech YouTuber is currently putting the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 through an extreme durability test, folding and unfolding it live on YouTube with a goal of hitting 200,000 folds. Yes, by hand. And no, we don’t recommend trying this at home unless you have a lot of patience (and nothing better to do for several days). Honestly, it’s kind of nice that the YouTuber is doing the hard work so the rest of us don’t have to.

As of writing this, the fold count has reached 113,368, meaning the YouTuber is likely a day or so away from reaching the 200,000 mark. It’s worth noting that Samsung officially rates the Z Fold 7’s internal OLED panel for up to 500,000 folds under ideal conditions. Still, manually folding it that many times might take over a week and probably the YouTuber’s sanity. Aiming for 200,000 folds seems like a more reasonable target.

Along the way, the YouTuber is pausing at certain milestones to check how the phone is doing. At 95,000 folds, everything appeared normal. The display was rendering colors correctly, touch sensitivity was intact, and components like the speakers were working fine.

After hitting 100,000 folds, a slight crackling sound began to appear while opening and closing the phone. Despite the noise, the inner display continued to function without flickering or visible damage.

By 105,021 folds, the screen was still fully functional, although the crease had become noticeably deeper.

Will it make it to 200,000? We think so. Samsung has used a 50% thicker Ultra Thin Glass (UTG) layer on the inner display of the Fold 7 to improve shock absorption. There’s also a new high-elastic adhesive that binds the OLED layers and, as per Samsung, offers four times the recovery performance compared to previous materials. Moreover, a high-strength titanium plate backs the screen. With all this, and the lab results previously provided by Samsung, we feel the Fold 7 should survive the YouTuber’s test.

However, since the fold test is being done manually and not in controlled lab conditions, it should give us a more realistic idea of how repeated folding affects the device in everyday use.

If you’re curious, you can still catch the livestream and see how the phone performs in real time.