Functioning iPhone returned to owner after six months at bottom of lake
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Thankfully, AppleCare was in effect and it got replaced for a small deductible.
Great to see gadgets standing up to being used as opposed to needing to be cradled and soothed all the time!
Also, I’ve done underwater selfies too. It’s a lot of fun!
It also has an ECG sensor that died for most people(myself included) before Samsung released the ECG mode(one year later).
So it's still working and I can fully enjoy the zero apps it has, because no one cares about Tizen, the continuous heartbeat measurement that stopped measuring after the last big update and the ongoing lack of ECG mode that I'm not allowed to use because I don't own a Samsung phone.
And people wonder why Apple owns the high-end smartwatch market.
I fished it out and it worked completely fine. I don’t think SEs were even marketed as waterproof. They still had the headphone jack, which I think was the weakspot
But Xs has been great in this regard. And with this pandemic, I regularly wash it with soap and water.
> (don’t ask, not the proudest moment)
don't be ashamed - that had the potential to be a super cool picture.
It was an Indian couple from New Jersey on their honey-moon vacation , and there were very happy to get their phone back, as they had all their honey moon pictures there. The estimate was that the phone was in water (about 1m of depth) for at least 3-4 days before my niece had found it.
So, it was a good story, also that the iphoneX, when new, can survive in shallow waters. Overtime, the 'water proof' coating does smear out, and eventually give in. I wouldn't swim with one, especially if it is an older phone.
“Nooo....” changed to “my phone, my phone!”
I am not sure the glue is that necessary for a waterproof seal, hence the crap.
They get crap because the phones cannot be easily repaired and go into a landfill instead.
If you have an elderly relative or parents, really consider an apple device with apple care, they can walk in and out if needed to an in person store. I've seen nothing simpler. They do some basic checks, will in a fair number of cases just swap you onto a new phone, then send your other phone to be looked at more closely.
There are no 5 calls to a script reading overseas call center, no mailing it in and back.
They seem to staff reasonably for calls in, and can actually solve problems. The only other company that can solve problems like this I've used is Amazon (who refunded me an $800 charge five minutes after my inquiry despite it having been recorded incorrectly in return system so I could have REALLY imagined lots of ways this would have gotten stuc). In short, this agent was able to single handedly (maybe with an internal escalation I didn't notice) get an $800 exception approved and I had money two days later. Calling google, samsung, huwai, dell even etc for stuff is a joke by comparison. Go to this forum, sign up for this paid support plan, pay this charge upfront.
You had to be able to open the camera to get the film in and out, so there was a gasket around the door.
You had to be really careful - you had to keep it supple and clean. One hair or bit of pocket fuzz and you could destroy your camera (and film). You had to wash the camera with fresh water after using it. And depth mattered.
I figured that the digital age would bring cameras that were hermetically sealed, but that didn't seem to happen - they still seemed to put doors on cameras.
Many believed that she would never smile again.
I have done this for my iPhone 6, 8 and XR over the last 5-6 years and it has never caused any damage. I used to wash the iPhone 6 in the sink nearly daily to remove the oils/sticky from the screen after eating lunch^. In my experience, you don't have to be extremely careful, you just need to be mindful that if you run the water jet continuously into a hole then it will eventually bust through... no matter what Apple marketing says.
^My workmates used to always tell me off for doing this, and I would explain that I've been doing it for years.
> My workmates used to always tell me off for doing this, and I would explain that I've been doing it for years.
Maybe they were telling you off for using your iPhone as a plate and/or utensils to eat lunch with?
So people sink the evidence.
My own phone is from Caterpillar.[1] Of course it's waterproof.
This is not like a surprising or novel feature of the iPhone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
List of devices with ESIM support https://esim2fly.com/esim-supported-devices/
I've gone to an AT&T corporate store nuemrous times and get "sorry we've run out of esims" and they charge for them. The site itself is also out of them frequently.
They are QR codes on cardboard
They don't allow you to activate completely remotely without requiring the physical item from the store or shipped. They "run out of stock" of ESIMs. Unlike TMo or Verizon you cannot use the app to load an ESIM, you have to get your hands on a physical one. They charge for them.
What? How is the battery still at 96 percent? Did she switch her phone off before dropping it?
Hah. Hopefully water didn't get into the battery in the first place ;)
yeah, 90% my ass. That battery was nearly dead.
All my iCloud photos are also in /Users/ceejayoz/Pictures. iCloud is a backup and a way to not store ten years worth on your phone. Apple's quite happy to have you have a local copy of it all.
They literally do. I have my iPhone 11 synced with my self hosted Nextcloud instance. It works pretty well.
iCloud is the default, not the only option.
"Why does your phone need to be waterproof? Does the roman republic need to take selfies and make phone-calls underwater?"
"No", Pontius replied "Romans might go swimming with it."
Would you care if you could buy the same apps 30% cheaper?
However, I would really love it so there can be a FOSS repository on the iPhone like F-Droid.
Is the App Store lacking? I’ve always been able to find what I needed.
That's not a defense. iOS is restrictive, and that's that.
If battery health becomes too low a device’s speed can be reduced to preserve running time of the device. That’s what got Apple into problems before (“Apple is intentionally crippling devices”), see “Batterygate”: