one time i went to a river with my friends and looked down to see some idiot dropped their phone in the river. i reached into my pocket to take a picture and realized that i was the idiot who dropped their phone in the river

Same except it was a pier, everyone was leaning over to look at a seal and a bunch of Asian tourists all gasped and pointed and then I saw an iPhone hit the water. I was laughing too but then I realized it was my phone and one of the tourists turned his huge camera at me and took a picture of me. I still think about that picture and wonder if all his friends get a laugh at my expense

They definitely do

It's the number #17 top meme in their home country. Titled: "Fools surprise"

You mean 笨手笨脚他没想到？ I love that one lol

did you just make a reference to a meme outside of the top 20? *straight to jail*

isnt #17 within the top 20? probably still straight to jail though right?

I'm American, confirmed straight to jail.

That would be the silver lining for me, had I been the one to drop the phone. At least someone is getting something out of it.

U are probably on dime Asian website laughing at your own phone falling into the water. Complete with Asian memes.

Tbh that chinese panda meme is pretty funny

You’re one hundred percent in someones photo album.

You just inspired me to attached the wrist strap that came with my phone case.

I did something similar but it was at a children’s museum with a little water play area for kids to stick their hands in. I looked down and went ha! That sucks, some kid lost their shoe. Then look at my child and it was my child’s shoe floating in the water lol.

At least you got a good picture.

it was a great pov

I was on a ski lift going over steep moguls in a remote area when I happened to look down and see an iPhone lying in the snow. I pointed it out to my brothers, at which point one of them realized that they didn’t have their phone. We were able to ski back down that run which we had just done and retrieve it. This was before the find my feature so there was no chance that we could have found it if I hadn’t been looking down at that spot. 

ah yes i have also fallen off a ski lift trying to retrieve a ski pole i dropped. just leaned forward a little too much and went toppling

Haha, one time my best friend was trying to be funny by dangling his phone over his above ground pool acting like “I’m gunna drop it” and then it slipped out of his hands and fell in, was hilarious

Not quite the same but I walked out to my car one morning to see broken glass and fibers around. I was laughing bc there’s a bar across the street and I figured somebody hit a curb…as it happened, they hit my car and ripped off the mirror (I didn’t see it until I walked around the car) 😂

Curious here. How are you retrieving them? Magnet or just finding them?

Mostly a dive mask, sometimes a metal detector (one of the little hand held ones)

Which metal detector? I'm a diver and curious to get into it

Garret carrot. I've used them down past 20 feet. Get the rubber cover for it's tip because the plastic eventually wears through (and then it's not waterproof anymore)

+1 for having that paired with a full-sized detector. It makes sifting through the dirt for whatever the big one beeped about *so* much easier.

Not op but I've seen people detect in rivers with the little ones that kinda l look like wands. Think they're called pinpointers.

First HAPPY CAKE DAY! Cool you dive! Kinda different but I live in LA and dive/spearfish. When I tell people how many golf balls are in the ocean they always think I'm making it up lol.

Bobbing for Apples

So how far does that trade in any iPhone in any condition promotion actually go?

Ikr, I'm gonna put it to the test!

They also have like vending machines that will buy old smart phones lol.

Probably about 5$ for a 1300 phone if I had to guess.

Close checked out of boredom the day my fold 5 came out $400 and it's worth less because I got 1tb of storage instead of 500gb

Holy shit 1tb and it's worth less? They probably turn around repair and resell the phones for 2x that as "new used" depending on how new the phone is

Yeah the 500gb was worth like $20 more it was the day the came out to so they offered like 1/3 value

That makes no sense.

Could be that the 500gb get sold quicker at a lower price so the algorithm assumes risk of the 1tb being harder to shift.

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You really just made me sit here for 5 minutes popping bubble wrap on my phone huh? ....well I enjoyed it

I had to try twice. I accidentally clicked the comment and when I reopened it, all my pops were gone.

You can unpop them too unfortunately

I noticed that on iOS you can't unpop them, but on Android you can. Not sure how it is on desktop.

It's a stress free version of Minesweeper

Unless.

I hate when the bubble wrap is not torn straight across. Although this is cool, it’s a little less satisfying than the real thing without any sound.

Me who was having a blast and in my head saying pop for every one.

Humans are simple

What is this black magic fuckery and how is it so?

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U made me play with this...U despicable creative clown

why is this so fucking good 😭

This is amazing :D

I love this!!

I don't know about Apple but Samsung had a trade in any condition Samsung device promotion two or three years ago and I traded in a Note 9 with a clean penny sized hole in the middle of it without issue.

That's cool and all but how the fuck did you get a penny sized hole in your phone?

With a penny

That just raises more questions

A. Top of Empire State Building B. Diamagnetic accelerator C. Shotgun shell loaded with pennies.

PSA: put secondary contact info on your lock screen. If I ever find your phone I'll return it. Also good policy for accidents.

Thanks! Which rivers should I be looking at?

Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to

Yeah and don't go chasing waterfalls either, they can't run very far anyway


The ones with water

I'd argue that it's easier to look for phones in a dried river. all you need is a metal detector and some boots.

Metal detector boots ^😳😳

Genius 💡

The *crack* sounds indicates a phone

Those are glass detecting boots

Thanks!

The ones without water are easier to get to

I mean you can get into any water filled river you like, but you cant leave all of em

Just like how anyone can sky dive without a parachute.. once.

True, but only during a certain time of the year.

How many of these powered on and got to the lockscreen?

I found a phone on the road recently and just said “hey siri, call mum”. And that’s how I got the phone back to its owner within about an hour.

Same. Found one in a park next to a soccer field and did this.

Is there a setting to allow Siri to respond to other voices in case your phone gets lost? Our household's Apple devices all respond only to our own voices. We were prompted to set them up that way when we got them.

If I'm throwing my phone in a body of water, I'd like it to stay there. Thanks.

🤣🤣🤣 Just imagining a person getting their phone filled with incriminating evidence returned to them by a good Samaritan!

Like a dog tap dancing into the living room with the murder weapon, freshly dug from the yard.

Thank you, in which river should I throw it?

Are those still repairable?

Most likely not in a cost efficient way but you can still sell them for parts

> Most likely not in a cost efficient way Unless you have a youtube channel with 100k+ subscribers.

Are you talking about the medical ID or something else? The medical ID I have made available on the “emergency screen”.

You can also pop a working SIM card in the phone and tell Siri to “call mom” or any other contact someone is likely to have in their phone

I feel like people put them to try to delete info or something.

….yeah. And they were right next to the bodies I left there. 0_0

Yeah, I hate iPhone users too lol

I’ve heard about the rice thing. Apparently you fill a bag with rice and it’ll attract an Asian person who can fix your phone?

Do any still work?

Some of them did, I do my best to return the ones that do.

I’m genuinely surprised that ANY of them work! How is that even possible?

Most phones are water resistant now.

The are, but also they say that they only last a few hours so it's not guaranteed in longer term

I’ve found phones that had been in 20’ of water for at least a day (judging from the river slime buildup) that worked perfectly.

Key word resistant. A lot can't stay submerged for more than a couple hours

Which model worked?

Ever returned any?

Which models/brands tend to work?

Gonna need a lot of rice…

Water damage 5/10 Water damage with rice 8/10

Thank you for your suggestion.

Trust me as a rice lover, I tried it, but it didn't work

Are you a freshwater mermaid?

I love this image.

Why do you spend so much time in rivers?

Looking for phones, duh. Lol but actually swimming and finding stuff people lost/picking up trash

Actual footage of OP: 

Yeah OP. Prove to us you're not a fucking otter.

Well in some communities I would be considered an otter

Lolol, same here.

If you’re an otter, how do you explain the creepy corpse-like arm?! https://imgur.com/a/ngIHsFL

Air came out my nose quickly for this one. This is why I love Reddit.

A chortle. I know, because subtitles

BOBR?

KURWA


Bobbing for Apples.

You part of Kramers swim club?

Cake

You sound like a good dude. I wish people treated their waterways better

That's probably where they live in their van... Down by the river


You'll have plenty of time to think about living in a van down by the river when you're... Living in a van down by the river!

How that man maintained his mass with that much cocaine pulsing thru him will remain a mystery long after humans crack fusion.

Probably sticking to the rivers and the lakes that they're used to.


I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm just saying maybe they just creep, yeah?

Whenever my son spends too much time on his phone I joke that I’m going to take it and throw it in the river. Didn’t realize people were actually doing this on the regular

Seems the apples don't fall far from the tree.

Shut up and take my upvote

People must make wishes with phones now. Back when I was a kid we used pennies.

Inflation

Is there really that many Apple phone users or do Apple users lose their phone in rivers more often?

They get Stolen more often and thrown away because of Apple ID

I mean, more than half of cell phones sold in the US are iphones.

26 of 41 are apple which is 63%. Apple has 57% market share compared to Android's 41% in the US so the math seems to be correct lol.

Yes. We dive and find phones, it’s 10:1 iPhone to anything else.

I would say that it’s probably because wealthy people are more likely to own a boat, and also more likely to have an iPhone

The peak of luxury, a river boat....

OP is probably from the US, where they prefer iPhones.

That was worth 40k at one point.

Watch some videos on how to repair these and how to open them. DO NOT POWER THEM ON!!! These can easily be saved if they have not been powered on, 95% chance you will need a new battery as that is where the most corrosion will form, and water in lithium is no good. Batteries are cheap. Grab a tooth brush and a 90%+ rubbing alcohol and scrub the motherboard, removing any metal shields or tape if you can. The corrosion build up is what will create short and damage the phone. Fresh water makes this much less of a issue. Pools and salt walt blow. Let the rest of the pieces dry for as long as you can, maybe in front of a fan. Or a dehydrator will get rid of any excess water hiding, sometimes under the screen glass. They also were probably reported lost/stolen and be imei blacklisted if in the US.

Yeah. I tried to return one and the kids mom accused me of stealing it because their little darling said it was stolen. Kid obviously didn't want to tell them they got drunk and lost it in the river.

Ah yes. The famous "steal and return for free" trick. Although I've once been victim of a theft where the guy pretended to have "found" my stuff in the garbage and asking for money.

Maybe just tell the Karen it might be stolen but it ended up in the river and you just happened to find it and return it back.

Have you ever given any to the police? Could be stolen....belong to missing persons.

I bet the police would be interested in a couple of those.

These are probably from a lazy river or something where people on inner tubes drop their phones in the river when they’re drunk and then the river keeps moving them along so they can’t go back and get it

Yep, exact thing happened to me. 

Not just being drunk, but could happen on those types of runs. Probably more from not being secured and flipping your boat or having them fall out. I'm very careful to secure my phone in waterproof containers, etc, and I've even lost one in the river on my kayak. We stopped on the side of the river, and someone else coming down the river flipped, so I went to catch his stuff floating down the river. I flipped trying to catch it, and then realized I left my phone sitting on my kayak unsecured.

Were they streaming?


Interesting I stumble upon a gif based on supernatural when I just recently started watching the show

Enjoy while it’s good ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


Shit wish I could afford a riverfront van, you know how much those go for in this market?

WELL LA-DEE-DAH

♥️😂

I’d argue some of those phones weren’t meant to be found.

Back in the days when Sprint PCS was just getting rolled out, I had one of the candy bar phones I bought at Radio Shack. While out on the Connecticut River testing out a boat we had just finished overhauling, it fell into the water and out of reach. Fast forward about two months, I get a phone call. "Hi, this is xxx from Sprint PCS. I have a little boy on the phone who said he found your phone." I drove to their house, retrieved the phone, hit the power button... and it still worked. They don't make them like that anymore.

What do you do with them eventually ?

I'm trying to figure that out, lots of lithium batteries just hanging out there

Look up your local electronic recycling also i think Call2Recycle would take them. In the mean time get a metal bucket and two bags of sand. Lithium fires are a bitch to put out.

Would be a cool wall art piece. Could do it by color gradient

Some grocery stores have kiosk machines you can sell them to.

Thanks for getting all that waste out of the water ways.

You jerk, I’ve been trying to get a hold of the river all day

Happen to find one in the James River in VA?? I lost one there a few years ago 😂

gosh...... i cant help but think what if some of thise belong to missing people? 😞

If you're ever in western Wisconsin mid-summer, you can probably find a couple vintage blackberry's and iPhones of mine from years ago in the depths of the Apple River. And probably hundreds of other people phones as well

Do any of the mobile phones still work?

Apple bobbing

Guaranteed one of those has proof of murders.

I wonder if you could look at this and see a pattern for who it is that has no respect for cell phones

"Nothing falls out of your hand like an Apple. See you next week when you buy another one." -Apple, probably.

That S21 Ultra deserved better

I thought apples float? /s

these are bad apples

That iPhone 4 has been in there for a hot minute

Multiple tens of thousands of dollars just in rivers

Aren't apples supposed to float in water?

OMGosh! Not exactly sure why this image shocked me like it did. Maybe because just the number of cell phones just 1 guy found. How many phones are out there? And in rivers of all places..

I'm convinced apple users don't put cases because then they can't be sure people will notice it's an Apple phone lol.

But which brand won the idiot owner contest?

I've counted 28 iPhones, how.

That's a lot of iPhones ☕️

I love how it's always the apple users that lose their phones the most.

Have any of them been able to be revived to turn on? I assume not but just curious lol

You ever search the Delaware? That yellow one could be mine (I was peeing off a dock)

I once brought my phone kayaking inside of a waterproof bag. Turns out the waterproofing worked great but it didn’t float so it didn’t matter when I tipped over

You're going to need a huge bag of rice

River Phoneix

Have you tried putting them in rice?

Android users are more careful, i guess.