Determined owner retrieves working iPhone from frozen lake after month underwater

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• Reply 1 of 15

  mike1 Posts: 3,286member

  March 25, 2021 4:44PM

  Wasn't the enclosure glass with an aluminum frame, on an iPhone11? Are there enough metal internal parts for a magnet to work???
  

  
• Reply 2 of 15

  Flytrap Posts: 60member

  March 25, 2021 5:11PM

  mike1 said:

  Wasn't the enclosure glass with an aluminum frame, on an iPhone11? Are there enough metal internal parts for a magnet to work???
  

  Although the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro look very similar, the ‌iPhone 11‌ is made with an aluminium frame while the ‌iPhone 11‌ Pro frame is made of stainless steel - which is a ferrous metal and will attach to any magnet.

  
  

  Also, ever since the iPhone 8, all iPhone devices support wireless charging as per the Qi standard. This works through a magnetic coil located on the back of the phone and is the reason why all these iPhones have glass backs as well. The metal core in the Qi coil is also slightly ferrous and will form a faint attraction to a strong external magnet.

  edited March 2021
• Reply 3 of 15

  dr. x Posts: 282member

  March 25, 2021 5:26PM

  That's amazing 30 days after it was dropped in the lake, it still worked.

  
  

  Here is the video for those interested.
  

  
  

  https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2167607&jwsource=cl
  

  
  

  edited March 2021
• Reply 4 of 15

  M68000 Posts: 728member

  March 25, 2021 5:55PM

  I’m not saying this is a made up story,  but I have to say this is really hard to believe.  But amazing for sure.

  
• Reply 5 of 15

  sflocal Posts: 6,096member

  March 25, 2021 6:02PM

  "Although 30 days had passed, Angie still wanted to retrieve her iPhone so that she could at least try to get replaced by Apple..."

  
  

  Uhm... not sure what reality she's living in, but what story is she going to fabricate that would get Apple to replace her phone after being on the bottom of a lake?

  
• Reply 6 of 15

  kurai_kage Posts: 105member

  March 25, 2021 6:44PM

  Apple Care covers lost phones too, but she could have just tried to turn it in as broken.  The freezing water part is what is amazing to me.  Damn good seals.

  
• Reply 7 of 15

  bageljoey Posts: 2,004member

  March 25, 2021 7:05PM

  M68000 said:

  I’m not saying this is a made up story,  but I have to say this is really hard to believe.  But amazing for sure.

  Watch the video above your post--its an incredible story, but not likely one made up...

  
• Reply 8 of 15

  mobird Posts: 754member

  March 25, 2021 9:04PM

  I wonder what the amount is spent out of pocket or via some protection plan (Apple Care) on a yearly basis for the replacement of iPhones due to some form of loss? I would think that an iPhone owner is more likely to replace "loss" iPhone for equal or better model and not move down in feature set/iOS version.
• Reply 9 of 15

  dr. x Posts: 282member

  March 25, 2021 9:33PM

  mobird said:

  I wonder what the amount is spent out of pocket or via some protection plan (Apple Care) on a yearly basis for the replacement of iPhones due to some form of loss? I would think that an iPhone owner is more likely to replace "loss" iPhone for equal or better model and not move down in feature set/iOS version.

  
  

  That's a good question, I get the AppleCare plan for my devices but I end up not using it but feel it's good to have in case something does happen. Peace of mind. I remember getting the display replaced at an Apple store and they tried to up sell me or actually down sell to an iPhone SE, I currently have an iPhone X (10) so told them to replace the display and wasn't interested in buying another product so agree with you there.
  

  edited March 2021
• Reply 10 of 15

  mobird Posts: 754member

  March 25, 2021 9:42PM

  ⇑⇑My iPhone X currently does not need to worry about being replaced any time soon, that is, unless Apple turns the iPhone 12 mini into a "Pro" version.
  I can dream...

  edited March 2021
• Reply 11 of 15

  dr. x Posts: 282member

  March 25, 2021 9:54PM

  mobird said:

  ⇑⇑My iPhone X currently does not need to worry about being replaced any time soon, that is, unless Apple turns the iPhone 12 mini into a "Pro" version.
  I can dream...

  Same. I’m looking to see what the iPhone 13 looks like this year as it’s supposed to have smaller notch, and other features I can’t quiet remember but probably won’t upgrade as my iPhone X works fine. 

  
• Reply 12 of 15

  lkrupp Posts: 10,557member

  March 25, 2021 9:59PM

  Yet we have users here and on the Apple Discussion Forums claiming their iPhone was sprinkled with a tiny bit of water and immediately stopped working and blew up.
• Reply 13 of 15

  Dogperson Posts: 145member

  March 26, 2021 1:01AM

  Not all stainless is magnetic. Fyi

  
• Reply 14 of 15

  beowulfschmidt Posts: 2,141member

  March 26, 2021 12:09PM

  An amazing stroke of luck finding the phone on the bottom of the lake.  Currents could have caused it to drift feet, or even yards, from the hole through which it was dropped, but instead it managed to land close enough to the hole that a weighted string could retrieve it.  A couple of feet in any direction, and they might not have been able to get it.

  
• Reply 15 of 15

  teaearlegreyhot Posts: 1,004member

  March 26, 2021 1:59PM

  lkrupp said:

  Yet we have users here and on the Apple Discussion Forums claiming their iPhone was sprinkled with a tiny bit of water and immediately stopped working and blew up.

  ...destroying not only the toilet, but blowing a hole in the wall and injuring people in the adjacent room!  
  
  J/K.