iPhone survives 16,000 foot fall

[KingOfPain]

Not totally sure if this is confirmed as real or not, but apparently an iPhone that was blown from the Boing 737MAX9 in Oregon survived the fall:


The first comment is hilarious:
Well of course the phone made it safely to the ground, it was in airplane mode…

 

[Cmaier]

To me the big shocking news about this is that the phone wasn’t locked with a passcode.

C’mon, people. You never know when a sudden air pressure vortex will rip your phone out of your hands and shoot it 16,000 feet into the arms of a waiting identity thief. Use a passcode!

 

[Yoused]

Was it in airplane mode?

 

[Roller]

Was it in airplane mode?

It was. The best comment about this at The Other Place is "AirDrop." According to the guy who found it, the phone had a travel confirmation for that flight on it.

 

[KingOfPain]

To me the big shocking news about this is that the phone wasn’t locked with a passcode.

That was also mind-boggling to me. Even my iPad, which I primarily use at home, locks after several minutes.

My father once wondered, why the fingerprint isn‘t enough to unlock the iPhone after a boot-up, and I told him:
The most likely reason is that according to US law you cannot be force to reveal the passcode, but they could probably just press your finger on the sensor. Therefore, you should ideally have the phone powered down when you go through customs.
(What a lot of people don‘t know, you lose a lot of rights in and around airports in the US.)

 

[Cmaier]

That was also mind-boggling to me. Even my iPad, which I primarily use at home, locks after several minutes.

My father once wondered, why the fingerprint isn‘t enough to unlock the iPhone after a boot-up, and I told him:
The most likely reason is that according to US law you cannot be force to reveal the passcode, but they could probably just press your finger on the sensor. Therefore, you should ideally have the phone powered down when you go through customs.
(What a lot of people don‘t know, you lose a lot of rights in and around airports in the US.)

Tip: no need to power down. Press and hold volume up and power simultaneously for a bit and choose not to power off or reboot. You still have to enter your code after that.