In what could be the ultimate iPhone impact survival test, a device plunged 2,000 feet from a plane – recording its free fall and showing only a few scratches, according to a report.
Documentary filmmaker Ernesto Galiotto was flying in a small plane over a Brazilian beach when his iPhone 6s slipped out of his hand and plummeted to the ground below, the Independent reported.
Thinking the phone was a goner, Galiotto used the Find My iPhone app to try and locate the device.
“I had faith that I was going to recover. I thought: ‘If it didn’t fall into the water, we will find it,’” he said, according to a translation from local news outlet G1.
Galiotto’s friend Victor de Oliveir a Tostes said they were able to find the phone very quickly.
“We walked for about five minutes until we got close to the cell phone. It was in a region of sand, with the screen facing downwards. The brightness of the sun reflected on the cover, and I was soon able to identify in the middle of the sand,” he said.
“It seems it was intact, working perfectly, with only a part of the protective film of the screen cracked,” he added.
The phone also had recorded more than an hour of video, including its blurry descent, which Galiotto posted on 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.






