In what could be the ultimate iPhone impact survival test, a device plunged 2,000 feet from an airplane – registering its free fall and showing only a few scratches, according to a report.
Documentary maker Ernesto Galiotto was flying in a small plane over a Brazilian beach when his iPhone 6s slipped from his hand and fell to the ground, the Independent reported.
Assuming the phone was a goner, Galiotto used the Find My iPhone app to try to locate the device.
‘I was confident that I would recover. I thought, ‘If it didn’t fall into the water, we’ll find it,’ ”he said, according to a translation by local news outlet G1.
Galiotto’s friend Victor de Oliveir a Tostes said they could find the phone very quickly.
We walked for about five minutes until we got to the cell phone. It was in a stretch of sand, screen down. The brightness of the sun reflected off the lid and I quickly identified myself in the middle of the sand, ”he said.
“It looks like it was intact and working perfectly, with only part of the screen’s protective film cracked,” he added.
The phone had also recorded over an hour of video, including the blurry descent, which Galiotto posted to YouTube where users joked that Apple could use it in an ad.
“And this video is brought to you by Apple,” one person wrote, while another said, “These phone case ads are really getting out of hand.”
The iPhone 6S was first released in September 2015.