
It's every iPhone owner's nightmare: dropping your phone into water, which will surely turn it into a very expensive brick. But Neptune doesn't always win when iPhones meet bodies of water, as a new story from Northern California demonstrates.
The iPhone 12 is not a waterproof phone – it's rated for resistance of up to 6m for up to 30 minutes – but one has been successfully restored after a much longer dip. And by "much longer", we mean "three months".