Working iPhone 11 returned

to owner nearly six months

after it fell in a lake

A recent news report claims an iPhone 11 was able to survive for nearly six
months underwater. — Pixabay

Apple’s recent iPhones, like many other expensive devices, come

with an IP (ingress protection) rating that certify the device to be
safe under water for a specific amount of time.

The iPhone 11 has a rating of IP68 (meaning it can survive a

maximum depth of two meters up to 30 minutes) but a recent news

 report claims the device was able to survive for much longer –
nearly six months underwater.

According to a report from AppleInsider, a freediver couple from

Chilliwack managed to retrieve two phones from the bottom of
Harrison Lake in British Columbia. The couple regularly clear
rubbish from the bottom of the lake and found the phones – one flip
phone and the other an iPhone 11. While the former was
inoperable, the latter started working when they took it home, the
report states.

The couple then contacted the original owner of the device, a

resident of Vancouver who reportedly dropped her phone into the
lake in September 2020. The owner, Fatemeh Ghodsi, lost her
balance when the device fell into the lake after which she was told
that there was no way to retrieve it from the water, according to the
report.

She told CBC Canada that she was in “complete shock” and that
she first thought it was her friends pranking her as the message had
arrived from her old number, but she ended up visiting the couple in
Chilliwack to get her smartphone back. “It was kind of like a zombie
phone coming back to me, because I’d totally make (sic) peace with
it being gone,” she stated.

Last month, we reported about another iPhone user who plunged

into the freezing water at Victoria Harbour to pick up his iPhone that
had fallen in the night before on Valentine's Day, only to find it was
working fine and photos that a bystander had clicked of him
delivered immediately once he turned it on in his pocket.

It certainly looks like Apple’s devices are more durable than the
company advertises, but don’t go dropping them in large water
bodies – your warranty will be void if there’s any water damage. –
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Tribune News Service