I still can’t quite believe this happened.
A while ago, my iPhone 14 accidentally fell from the 32nd floor of a building, all the way down to the ground.
When I found it on the grass, I honestly expected the worst. But surprisingly, the screen wasn’t cracked, the phone had no obvious damage, and everything seemed to work normally.
The crazy part? It’s been a whole month since then, and I’m still using the same phone every day. The screen, cameras, buttons, battery and all the other functions are working just fine. No issues so far!
I did have a protective case on it, but I think landing on the grass probably made a huge difference. Maybe the angle of impact helped too. I guess I got incredibly lucky.
And honestly, the biggest relief wasn’t even the phone surviving. It happened at night, and thankfully nobody was around when it fell. It landed on a side of the building where people rarely walk, so nobody was hurt.
I keep thinking about how differently this story could have ended. A working phone is great, but knowing nobody got injured is what really matters.
Has anyone else ever had an accident where something survived against all odds? I’d love to hear your stories!
That’s skibidi bussin, dude.
Let me clarify once more—much like many of you have remarked, you find this hard to believe; well, I was just as surprised when I discovered my phone was completely undamaged. My 4-year-old son was holding my phone, listening to a story, and then went to open a window—suddenly, the sound from the phone just cut out… yes,I did use AI to polish the text, as English is not my native language, but the story itself is absolutely true!
I once dropped a phone at The Grand Canyon.
It fell about 3 feet (a meter) off a picnic table.
Yes, but did it survive? You can’t just leave it at a cliff hanger like that.
If I remember right, I had a tempered glass screen protector and that cracked, but the screen itself was ok
The craziest drop I had was my Siemens EF81 falling down into an abandoned stone quarry during a geocaching expedition.
Not quite as high as your drop, only perhaps 20m height, but it hit rock outcroppings halfway down, disassembling it in the process, with phone, battery and back-cover spreading over a wide area.
We finally found a way to get down to the bottom of the quarry, there it took us some time to locate all the seriously scratched and tended parts between the rocks.
Assembled it without much hope, but turned on again without complaint.
A hell of a phone, almost full metal casing, hardened quartz glass outer display, massive metal hinges and inner skeleton.This is a picture of the phone type, an elegant phone from a more civilized age:
That’s genuinely a beautiful device
It is from a time when manufacturers still were a little experimental, as the now dominating slab-touchscreen-design wasn’t a thing yet.
And it was really fun to use, most TOS-Star-Trek-Communicator-like device I ever owned, and the huge metal keypad also felt incredible when typing.
I am missing the haptically much more satisfying designs of the past.
(Not just for phones - touch-only-elements mostly suck!)I really miss being able to type by feel. At this point hitting the right letters is mostly a question of muscle memory, which has gotten a lot better over the years, but buttons are just far superior when typing vs touch screen.
I was enormously annoyed by the screen keyboard with my clumsy fingers, constantly being on the brink of throwing my phone at the wall out of frustration.
Switched the keyboard to handwriting recognition some years ago, and never went back.
Thanks for sharing this story, Your phone is certainly very robust; it seems my phone’s might just be a rare, one-off occurrence. > The craziest drop I had was my Siemens EF81 falling down into an abandoned stone quarry during a geocaching expedition.
Not quite as high as your drop, only perhaps 20m height, but it hit rock outcroppings halfway down, disassembling it in the process, with phone, battery and back-cover spreading over a wide area. We finally found a way to get down to the bottom of the quarry, there it took us some time to locate all the seriously scratched and tended parts between the rocks. Assembled it without much hope, but turned on again without complaint. A hell of a phone, almost full metal casing, hardened quartz glass outer display, massive metal hinges and inner skeleton.
This is a picture of the phone type, an elegant phone from a more civilized age:
I just plan to learn English well so I can share stories in my own words and help reduce any resistance you might feel toward AI—though I must say, I’m truly grateful to AI; it has helped me a lot. Good night at my time. hope the world get better. I’m real person. real! Truly real.
Thank you for saying this. I can tell this is you trying to speak English to the best of your ability now and it sounds very genuine. I much prefer your best effort, even with the syntax and grammatical errors, over the AI that says things in a way that sounds correct but also sounds fake
When was the last time that it had rained before the drop? Or is this grass perhaps regularly watered?
Wondering how much ‘give’ the substrate would have had.
Seems like you iPhone likely reached terminal velocity (~30m/s) right towards the end of the drop (~300ft)
Disclosure - I didn’t do monster math, these figures are based on Quora and a Reddit post that came up in search results.
This happened last month. I’m not sure when it had last rained, but it was windy that evening, which likely provided some cushioning. My husband went downstairs and retrieved the phone; it hadn’t fallen straight down—it had drifted outward for a few meters.> When was the last time that it had rained before the drop? Or is this grass perhaps regularly watered?
Wondering how much ‘give’ the substrate would have had.
Seems like you iPhone likely reached terminal velocity (~30m/s) right towards the end of the drop (~300ft)
Disclosure - I didn’t do monster math, these figures are based on Quora and a Reddit post that came up in search results.
Just to add a bit more context: I bought this phone around June 2022. About two years ago, I dropped it on the road—my husband and I had been taking turns driving, and it must have fallen out when I got out of the car. When we got home, I realized it was missing. Using the “Find My Phone” feature, my husband went back and got it. Luckily, it was nighttime, so no one else had picked it up; the screen was broken, then I paid about $200 to replace the screen, and have been using it ever since. The incident where it fell from the 32nd floor happened just last month—so, I’ve really developed a deep attachment to this phone!
wild, the people who make them usually don’t.
Is this ai?
This is a true story: my child was holding my phone—listening to a story—while going to close the window, when suddenly the sound cut out… > The craziest drop I had was my Siemens EF81 falling down into an abandoned stone quarry during a geocaching expedition.
Not quite as high as your drop, only perhaps 20m height, but it hit rock outcroppings halfway down, disassembling it in the process, with phone, battery and back-cover spreading over a wide area. We finally found a way to get down to the bottom of the quarry, there it took us some time to locate all the seriously scratched and tended parts between the rocks. Assembled it without much hope, but turned on again without complaint. A hell of a phone, almost full metal casing, hardened quartz glass outer display, massive metal hinges and inner skeleton.
This is a picture of the phone type, an elegant phone from a more civilized age:
Oh no, reading OPs text again I have to conclude you are probably right.
This totally sounds like some artificial low-effort slob.
Damn.According to their past comments, they use AI to translate their text because they don’t natively speak English. Not really a point towards or against this whole thing being AI, but worth mentioning.
You know me, thanks for your understand.
It doesn’t sound like just a translation, but at least a complete stylistic rewrite (as it uses AI-typical phrases and is just too slick).
And seeing the effort OP is expending on interacting with the community in their own post (none), I strongly suspect the post to also be a minimal effort thing, so probably giving the AI five scribbled keywords and the prompt “Write a forum post in English based on this”.
Also: A 32 story building you just can drop a phone down?
That is not so easy to achieve, and no context given on how and why specifically this happened, but a bunch of generic stuff instead.And profile link leads to some fishy AI-generated site trying to sell some Temu-tech-gimmick-crap.
No, I am now even more sure the post is 99% AI slop and 1% minimal effort marketing.
I’m trying to figure out what 32 floor building has green space right where someone could drop a phone and not have it bounce somewhere that would cause everything to shatter.
The story doesn’t check out. Your story about the flip phone in he quarry was way better and actually believable
The older I get the more I notice true stories that are stranger than fiction.
With 7 billion people or so reporting in, a lot of unlikely things become likely.
This isn’t just a claim—it’s the truth. I find it hard to believe myself, but it actually happened; it’s likely what you’d call a low-probability event. > I’m trying to figure out what 32 floor building has green space right where someone could drop a phone and not have it bounce somewhere that would cause everything to shatter.
The story doesn’t check out. Your story about the flip phone in he quarry was way better and actually believable
