**The Incredible Journey of Two iPhone 11 Phones**
We embarked on an extraordinary experiment to see just how far we could push two iPhone 11 phones before they would no longer function after being submerged in salt water and exposed to incredible pressure underwater. The results were nothing short of astonishing.
**The Drowning Experience**
First, we carefully placed both phones into the drink, making sure not to touch them with our hands or any other objects that could potentially damage them. We wanted to see how well they would hold up to the forces of nature. As expected, water poured in, and the phones were exposed to saltwater with an incredible amount of pressure underwater. We watched anxiously as the two devices floated at the bottom of the ocean, their screens facing upwards, as if beckoning us to come and rescue them.
**Assessing the Damage**
72 hours had passed since we submerged our beloved iPhones, and it was time to assess the damage. We decided not to touch either phone again until they were completely dry, as Apple suggests drying them off with a lint-free towel. After rinsing them off with clean fresh water or tap water, we carefully lifted them out of the water and let them sit for a while to see if all the water would be dried out.
**Turning On the Devices**
With caution, we turned on both phones to run through a series of tests to see how they had fared. First, we looked at the screen. To our surprise, the iPhone 11 still worked, albeit with a tiny scratch on the screen. The touchscreen itself seemed to be responsive, and physical buttons were still working just fine. We tested the camera, which looked okay, but there was a bit of fogging on the selfie camera that could easily come off.
**Testing the Microphone**
We then moved on to test the microphone, playing a track from a fresh iPhone 11. The results were astonishing – both phones sounded much clearer than when we first tested them after being submerged. We compared their volume levels by playing the same track on each phone and using an Apple Watch Series 5 to give us a bit of a sound and decibel reading. To our surprise, one of the iPhones (the iPhone 11 Pro) was slightly louder, but not by much.
**The Verdict**
Overall, we were thrilled to see that both phones had survived their underwater ordeal with flying colors. While they did show some signs of damage, such as scratches and fogging on the camera, they were still functioning perfectly. It's worth noting that Apple explicitly states that liquid damage is not covered under warranties, so don't try this at home! We also want to extend our gratitude to Captain Phil from Underwater Company and Eric Stackpole from So Far Ocean Technology for their expertise in underwater technology.
**The Future of Phone Testing**
As CNET, we're always on the lookout for ways to push the boundaries of what's possible with technology. This experiment may have been extreme, but it highlights just how resilient modern smartphones can be. We'd love to hear from our readers about ideas they have for even more extreme phone testing – leave a comment below!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe icon keeps on getting more water resistant as each year goes by and this year Apple says that the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are even more water resistant than previous phones now we've already tested last year's iPhone 10 R and Tenace here in beautiful Monterey Bay to see how deep we could actually take them and turned out they're actually a lot more water resistant than Apple gives them credit for so with the new phones we are going to take things to the next level and guess what come on our mother bleep in boats so I'm here with my friend Eric from so far ocean technologies who helped us out last year with this really awesome tool called B Trident which is an underwater drone tell me what this drone can actually do so this is a tool that's built to allow people to see parts the world no one has seen before it basically sends video up to the surface and you can drive it around just like an aerial drone but if you go to a hundred metres depth so you can see parts of the world that are totally undiscovered and we wanted to make it so anyone can do that this is gonna be incredible okay so like enough talking about stuff above surface let's go down and do our first dive let's do it so for our first dive we are going to test the claim so the iPhone 11 it's two meters for thirty minutes whereas the 11pro is four meters for thirty minutes now seeing as we've already tested last year's 10r which was the previous version of the 11 it actually survived a lot deeper than we thought it would so we're just gonna cut straight to the chase go right down to four meters to get us started and see how they both survived so before we start diving with the phones I'm gonna do a quick voice recording on both of them so then when they come out of the water I can play it back and see what the speaker sounds like testing testing one two three voice recording on the iPhone 11 Pro testing testing one two three voice recording on the iPhone 11 hold on let's dunk him all right let's start that's my mom here we go all right all right wish it luck good luck lions you can do it 10 9 8 7 6 okay and we're at the top here comes and they both seem to still be running excellent okay now we're here so first up let's test B 11 now this wasn't rated to go down as deep as we took it I'm just testing the touchscreen it looks like it's still fully functional camera snap a further on the rear camera snap a selfie they look good okay now let's listen to some audio and see how that sounds sounds okay still audible just sounded like there's a little bit of water in that speaker and I think with a little extra drying out it should it should be fine but everything's still working as expected iPhone 11 pro looks like the touchscreen is still working fine right okay timer time via camera all of the lenses seem to be working that ultra wide wide and the 2x telephoto selfie camera looks fine okay let's check the voice definitely sounds louder than the iPhone 11 but there is a little bit more distortion and it does sound like there's still some water in there I think perhaps the 11 has had the speaker a little dampened from the underwater treatment but overall it's sounding surprisingly good for being submerged so there okay after four meters or around three and a half meters let's go to the next level which is gonna be around eight meters right eight meters that's pretty cool and you know we're just about 10 meters which would be two atmospheres we'd be doubling the amount of pressure that these phones are normally around so that's pretty cool all right let's see what happens we've just passed 30 minutes underwater at 8 meters and the both of the phones are still working all right so I'm a piloting it off the ground now and then we'll just pull it back with the tether and see how everything looks yeah they both look good still going and we left it slightly longer than 30 minutes incredible okay pull them off and dry them off right the phones are looking pretty good 11 first touch screen is still working alright let's open up the camera now and see take a photo that way selfie selfie cameras working - all right let's do the audio test now not bad I mean not great sounding but it still works which is pretty crazy considering the deaf alright let's take a listen to the 11pro check the screen it all seems to be working it's responding to my touches camera ok wide ultra wide 2x okay Sophie seems to be working fine the images look fine no evidence of fogging or anything like that and finally voice chest microphones alright sounds a lot softer than the first dive although it doesn't sound as waterlogged as the speaker from the iPhone 11 so I think for this test both of them have survived just fine so I that just means we have to go even deeper I think at least 12 meters this time hey let's put them back go even deeper than before I just can't believe that's still good so let's start the time is on the phones and then dunk the Trident good luck fine good luck funds all right they're in the water I can't believe they actually made it both of them it's incredible the only issue that we had was it looks like the screen was touched or changed from the timeless screen that we had running so let's see when we pull it to the surface it's actually an issue with the touch screen oh it was just a phantom press here we go there they are all right still going strong okay iPhones okay so dried both of them off now let's take a look at the screen still working it's responding to all of the touches take a look at the camera be wide and the ultra wide taking the photo okay no evidence of fogging selfie the front-facing camera is okay so let's take a listen to the speaker to me it sounds the same as the previous dunk it still sounds acceptable again let's try with the 11 / touchscreen is working okay so when it did go off underwater and it changed the screen it must have just been a phantom press it wasn't an error with the touchscreen at all so it's still working okay camera let's do wide ultra wide two times front camera okay it all looks fine I'm so surprised okay the voice in the speaker it sounds okay again I think there's some volume lost there so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take them both and dry them out completely come back and reassess but wow this is beyond the scope of how deep most people would ever drop their phones plus it was in salt water with an incredible amount of pressure underwater as well not a scientific experiment but still very very impressive that both of these friends survived and they look like you I don't I don't understand I don't get it so it's been 72 hours since we dunked these phones in the drink and since then I haven't touched them at all with the exception of rinsing them off with clean fresh water or tap water as Apple suggests drying them off with a lint-free towel and just letting them sips and to see if all of that water will be dried out so let's turn them on and run through a couple tests and see how they did so first up the iPhone 11 turns on okay didn't notice it was a tiny little bit of scratching on the screen but the touchscreen itself still works seems to be responsive physical buttons are still working just fine up and down like so a toggle yeah that all seems to be working the camera looks okay selfie camera no I can't see any any fogging it's just a couple fingerprints there I think so I'm gonna test the microphone now testing iPhone 11 72 hours after being submerged definitely sounds a lot clearer than when we first tested it after being dunked okay let's see if it will take a charge now okay plugged it in it's charging seems to be working totally as normal alright let's test out the iPhone 11 probe same thing screen is fine it's responding to touches volume rocker and physical buttons they're all working fine camera still all working that's the selfie camera I can't see any fogging a little bit of dirt there it'll come off easily let's test the microphone testing the iPhone 11 pro 72 hours after dunking sounds pretty good definitely better than what it was when we first tested it after being dunked okay let's see if it charges it's charging fine just like it would if it wasn't submerged looking good okay so one final test that I wanted to do with these phones was to see if there was any issue with the volume of the speaker I'm going to compare a track plate on both of these phones to attract played from a fresh iPhone 11 and see if there's any difference in the sound level at all and I have the Apple watch Series 5 to give us a bit of a sound and decibel reading all right volume is at maximum let's go about the same maybe one or two decibels louder okay so those have been the phones that were dunked now let's listen on friends that haven't been compromised same track let's listen i phone 11 first definitely a little bit louder and there's a bit more definition there in the song as well so that was the 11 let's listen to the 11pro however this is an 11 pro max so that might affect the result but let's take a listen anyway so again slightly louder but not by all that much it definitely sounds a bit more defined on the phone that hasn't been dunked compared to the phones that were under Monterey Bay but overall pretty much everything is working as expected Apple says that liquid damage is not covered under warranties so don't try this at home and of course this isn't a scientific test we were just having some fun to see how far we could take these a big thank you to captain Phil from underwater company and Eric Stackpole from so far Ocean Technology thanks for watching and stay tuned for way more extreme phone testing here on CNET so we took these fines as deep as we could take him but they didn't break and maybe that's what you wanted to see so if you have any ideas of how I can get more extreme in testing these phones leave me a comment and I'll see what I can dothe icon keeps on getting more water resistant as each year goes by and this year Apple says that the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are even more water resistant than previous phones now we've already tested last year's iPhone 10 R and Tenace here in beautiful Monterey Bay to see how deep we could actually take them and turned out they're actually a lot more water resistant than Apple gives them credit for so with the new phones we are going to take things to the next level and guess what come on our mother bleep in boats so I'm here with my friend Eric from so far ocean technologies who helped us out last year with this really awesome tool called B Trident which is an underwater drone tell me what this drone can actually do so this is a tool that's built to allow people to see parts the world no one has seen before it basically sends video up to the surface and you can drive it around just like an aerial drone but if you go to a hundred metres depth so you can see parts of the world that are totally undiscovered and we wanted to make it so anyone can do that this is gonna be incredible okay so like enough talking about stuff above surface let's go down and do our first dive let's do it so for our first dive we are going to test the claim so the iPhone 11 it's two meters for thirty minutes whereas the 11pro is four meters for thirty minutes now seeing as we've already tested last year's 10r which was the previous version of the 11 it actually survived a lot deeper than we thought it would so we're just gonna cut straight to the chase go right down to four meters to get us started and see how they both survived so before we start diving with the phones I'm gonna do a quick voice recording on both of them so then when they come out of the water I can play it back and see what the speaker sounds like testing testing one two three voice recording on the iPhone 11 Pro testing testing one two three voice recording on the iPhone 11 hold on let's dunk him all right let's start that's my mom here we go all right all right wish it luck good luck lions you can do it 10 9 8 7 6 okay and we're at the top here comes and they both seem to still be running excellent okay now we're here so first up let's test B 11 now this wasn't rated to go down as deep as we took it I'm just testing the touchscreen it looks like it's still fully functional camera snap a further on the rear camera snap a selfie they look good okay now let's listen to some audio and see how that sounds sounds okay still audible just sounded like there's a little bit of water in that speaker and I think with a little extra drying out it should it should be fine but everything's still working as expected iPhone 11 pro looks like the touchscreen is still working fine right okay timer time via camera all of the lenses seem to be working that ultra wide wide and the 2x telephoto selfie camera looks fine okay let's check the voice definitely sounds louder than the iPhone 11 but there is a little bit more distortion and it does sound like there's still some water in there I think perhaps the 11 has had the speaker a little dampened from the underwater treatment but overall it's sounding surprisingly good for being submerged so there okay after four meters or around three and a half meters let's go to the next level which is gonna be around eight meters right eight meters that's pretty cool and you know we're just about 10 meters which would be two atmospheres we'd be doubling the amount of pressure that these phones are normally around so that's pretty cool all right let's see what happens we've just passed 30 minutes underwater at 8 meters and the both of the phones are still working all right so I'm a piloting it off the ground now and then we'll just pull it back with the tether and see how everything looks yeah they both look good still going and we left it slightly longer than 30 minutes incredible okay pull them off and dry them off right the phones are looking pretty good 11 first touch screen is still working alright let's open up the camera now and see take a photo that way selfie selfie cameras working - all right let's do the audio test now not bad I mean not great sounding but it still works which is pretty crazy considering the deaf alright let's take a listen to the 11pro check the screen it all seems to be working it's responding to my touches camera ok wide ultra wide 2x okay Sophie seems to be working fine the images look fine no evidence of fogging or anything like that and finally voice chest microphones alright sounds a lot softer than the first dive although it doesn't sound as waterlogged as the speaker from the iPhone 11 so I think for this test both of them have survived just fine so I that just means we have to go even deeper I think at least 12 meters this time hey let's put them back go even deeper than before I just can't believe that's still good so let's start the time is on the phones and then dunk the Trident good luck fine good luck funds all right they're in the water I can't believe they actually made it both of them it's incredible the only issue that we had was it looks like the screen was touched or changed from the timeless screen that we had running so let's see when we pull it to the surface it's actually an issue with the touch screen oh it was just a phantom press here we go there they are all right still going strong okay iPhones okay so dried both of them off now let's take a look at the screen still working it's responding to all of the touches take a look at the camera be wide and the ultra wide taking the photo okay no evidence of fogging selfie the front-facing camera is okay so let's take a listen to the speaker to me it sounds the same as the previous dunk it still sounds acceptable again let's try with the 11 / touchscreen is working okay so when it did go off underwater and it changed the screen it must have just been a phantom press it wasn't an error with the touchscreen at all so it's still working okay camera let's do wide ultra wide two times front camera okay it all looks fine I'm so surprised okay the voice in the speaker it sounds okay again I think there's some volume lost there so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take them both and dry them out completely come back and reassess but wow this is beyond the scope of how deep most people would ever drop their phones plus it was in salt water with an incredible amount of pressure underwater as well not a scientific experiment but still very very impressive that both of these friends survived and they look like you I don't I don't understand I don't get it so it's been 72 hours since we dunked these phones in the drink and since then I haven't touched them at all with the exception of rinsing them off with clean fresh water or tap water as Apple suggests drying them off with a lint-free towel and just letting them sips and to see if all of that water will be dried out so let's turn them on and run through a couple tests and see how they did so first up the iPhone 11 turns on okay didn't notice it was a tiny little bit of scratching on the screen but the touchscreen itself still works seems to be responsive physical buttons are still working just fine up and down like so a toggle yeah that all seems to be working the camera looks okay selfie camera no I can't see any any fogging it's just a couple fingerprints there I think so I'm gonna test the microphone now testing iPhone 11 72 hours after being submerged definitely sounds a lot clearer than when we first tested it after being dunked okay let's see if it will take a charge now okay plugged it in it's charging seems to be working totally as normal alright let's test out the iPhone 11 probe same thing screen is fine it's responding to touches volume rocker and physical buttons they're all working fine camera still all working that's the selfie camera I can't see any fogging a little bit of dirt there it'll come off easily let's test the microphone testing the iPhone 11 pro 72 hours after dunking sounds pretty good definitely better than what it was when we first tested it after being dunked okay let's see if it charges it's charging fine just like it would if it wasn't submerged looking good okay so one final test that I wanted to do with these phones was to see if there was any issue with the volume of the speaker I'm going to compare a track plate on both of these phones to attract played from a fresh iPhone 11 and see if there's any difference in the sound level at all and I have the Apple watch Series 5 to give us a bit of a sound and decibel reading all right volume is at maximum let's go about the same maybe one or two decibels louder okay so those have been the phones that were dunked now let's listen on friends that haven't been compromised same track let's listen i phone 11 first definitely a little bit louder and there's a bit more definition there in the song as well so that was the 11 let's listen to the 11pro however this is an 11 pro max so that might affect the result but let's take a listen anyway so again slightly louder but not by all that much it definitely sounds a bit more defined on the phone that hasn't been dunked compared to the phones that were under Monterey Bay but overall pretty much everything is working as expected Apple says that liquid damage is not covered under warranties so don't try this at home and of course this isn't a scientific test we were just having some fun to see how far we could take these a big thank you to captain Phil from underwater company and Eric Stackpole from so far Ocean Technology thanks for watching and stay tuned for way more extreme phone testing here on CNET so we took these fines as deep as we could take him but they didn't break and maybe that's what you wanted to see so if you have any ideas of how I can get more extreme in testing these phones leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do\n"
