14 DAY TRIAL // Like all modern smartphones, the iPhone 11 comes with an IP68 rating, but Apple obviously still doesn’t recommend users to take a shower with the device for obvious reasons.
And yet, the new iPhones have already proved what they’re capable of when it comes to water resistance as part of so many tests, but someone has found out the whole thing on their own after dropping an Apple smartphone in Harrison Lake.
The iPhone belonging to Fatemeh Ghodsi ended up at the bottom of the lake in September when she was taking a ride in bumper boats, and the local staff told her recovering the device would be impossible given how deep the water was.
iPhone still working
But fast forward half of a year later and Clayton Helkenberg and his wife Heather, who were both diving in the lake looking for lost items, noticed the iPhone 11 sitting at the bottom of the lake. They took the smartphone out, took it home, and after a quick cleanup, they tried to power on the device.
“I took it home, cleaned the dirt off of it and it just turned right on, so it was pretty amazing,” he was quoted as saying by CBC Canada.
Needless to say, news of an iPhone still working after so many months is great marketing material, but in theory, pretty much any modern smartphone with an IP68 rating should be able to work just fine after so many months submerged in water.
As a matter of fact, the iPhone’s microphone appears to be broken, according to the owner, and the speaker also sounds distorted, so the water more or less managed to get inside, though without destroying all internals and making the device just a piece of junk.
