Disney World Returns Fully Working iPhone 11 to Family Weeks After Device Sank to Bottom of Seven Seas Lagoon

[ericinboston]

Turn on iCloud Photos. You will never lose a photo. Problem resolved

Surprised people still do not do it

I own an iPhone 7 and several iPads...all with my same Apple ID. I tried using iCloud to backup iPhone 7 Photos a few years ago and had a management nightmare:

1)Enabling it on my iPhone somehow enabled it on all my iPads. Not good. I don't have dirty pix but I don't want my pix spread across all my iPads for anyone who picks up the iPad to see. And no, I do not use passcodes on my iDevices.

2)Once enabled on all my iDevices, I was able to disable it but it wasn't super simple.

3)I believe there is (or should be) a way to push the pix to iCloud as a general backup but it would be nice to have it available as some kind of remote viewing/access if I enter my Apple ID & pw with some app. Meaning: push the pix from my iPhone to iCloud and then hop on my iPad and use a certain app that prompts me for a username/pw to access the iCloud pix for that session.

4)Building on #1, once the iPads were all picking up my iPhone pix, I also started receiving pix on my iPhone that were taken from the iPads. Again, the management (and privacy) was not very easy to use.

5)it was very confusing figuring out what photos were taken on what devices because they were all mish moshed together.

Maybe some of these items have been fixed in the past 2-3 years but I didn't care for the process of iCloud and photos. Now put yourself in the shoes of people who do take dirty selfies and/or more private pix and you'll understand why some of us do/did not use iCloud.

If things have gotten far easier with iOS 12.x or 13.x, please let me know (with examples if you can) and maybe I'll give it another shot.

 

[cmaier]

And no, I do not use passcodes on my iDevices.

See, right there, you are making an absolutely horrible life choice.

 

[G5isAlive]

would this be possible with a replacable battery? Me thinks not

 

[DeepIn2U]

Good marketing for both companies.

sister companies ... definitely great free press/marketing! We all know why we love our Apple products vs the industry.

Timmy: "...if you were using iCloud like you're supposed to, you would've had your pictures anyways, but cool story, bro."

I'd point to her husband ... a long time Apple product user forgetting to have her setup this one crucial service! Shame on you mr husband you should know better and hope you're reading this. Dog pound on the couch for you for 1 week! lol.

I bet the Little Mermaid was ticked off she had to surrender her free , brand new iPhone ...

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LMAO nicely done.

PS: Their daughter has great taste in character Jack Skeleton ... A Nightmare before Christmas was a great movie ... still love it today.

 

[Jake Troyer]

Hi all,

Lisa wasn’t on wifi to upload her pictures. She definitely has iCloud. She did have her other photos on iCloud.

We aren’t sure how deep the area of the dock was when the phone went in the water.

The Disney World employee who called Lisa had said they had just pulled the phone out of the water and it was the only one that worked from the others they discovered

No. We did not buy our daughter an $800 phone. That’s ridiculous.

No. This is not from a Disney World press release. It happened in real life.

Jake

 

[MisterSavage]

The lost/found system at Disney World is no joke!

I'll take a ferry any day of the week over those cramped monorail cars.

 

[dave070]

"...despite being submerged for quite some time, she found the device to be completely functional..."
so exactly what is "quite some time"?
Anyway
glad to hear about pics were retrieved
family photos are priceless

The article says
"Almost two months later, Lisa received some missed calls from the Orlando area. Figuring it was a telemarketer, she ignored them. Then came a call from her father-in-law, who let her know that Disney had found her iPhone."

 

[incoherent_1]

Timmy: "...if you were using iCloud like you're supposed to, you would've had your pictures anyways, but cool story, bro."

Turn on iCloud Photos. You will never lose a photo. Problem solved

Surprised people still do not do it

First thing I thought when I read this is: Was iCloud on? If not, a good lesson to have it.

Honest question, I’m not trying to troll: I thought iCloud Photos only backed up over WiFi? So regardless, any photos they’d taken that day would’ve been lost, right?

If there’s a way around that I’d love to know!

 

[kalafalas]

Turn on iCloud Photos. You will never lose a photo. Problem solved

Surprised people still do not do it

By default iCloud Photo Library will wait for Wi-Fi if you take more than just one or two photos, and even with unlimited cellular updates enabled (which will destroy your data plan) it will pause updates if its not been near a charger for long enough or in low power mode, so you usually don't end up getting the photos day-of damaging the device

 

[btbeme]

My wife gathered the sheets off the bed and tossed them in the washing machine. After 72 minutes on hot, her iPhone 8 came out clean, mostly separated into two pieces, and still working. I immediately turned it off, blew it out carefully with some compressed air, and brought it to a local 3rd party repair shop (knowing the local Apple Store would charge a lot for water damage). They finished separating it into pieces, dried it, and reassembled it to test it. Worked fine. Total charge was $19 for diagnostics. Oh, and the intermittent microphone issue she had was gone too.

 

[MoreRumors?]

She is lucky she got her phone back after two months. I filed a lost item report with Disney and they closed the report after about 2-3weeks. I was back at Disney a few months later and stopped by the Lost and Found just to check. I was told if the recovered items are not claimed after 30 days, it either gets thrown out or donated.

 

[dave070]

Honest question, I’m not trying to troll: I thought iCloud Photos only backed up over WiFi? So regardless, any photos they’d taken that day would’ve been lost, right?

If there’s a way around that I’d love to know!

You can use cellular as mentioned above but it can eat through your data so most use Wifi. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

 

[Meglanon99]

"...despite being submerged for quite some time, she found the device to be completely functional..."
so exactly what is "quite some time"?
Anyway
glad to hear about pics were retrieved
family photos are priceless

"Almost two months later"

 

[Marco0107]

In an alternate universe, an iPhone with a user-replaceable battery would have been a different story.

 

[JosephAW]

Soooooo why isn't there an iPhone case that floats?

 

[MisterSavage]

Honest question, I’m not trying to troll: I thought iCloud Photos only backed up over WiFi? So regardless, any photos they’d taken that day would’ve been lost, right?

If there’s a way around that I’d love to know!

There's pretty good coverage of the complimentary wifi at Walt Disney World.

 

[Charles50]

Hey that's an Apple (PRODUCT)RED iPhone. That's another nice bit of the story.

 

[Baymowe335]

As a former WDW Monorail Pilot, this is why no one should take the stinky old ferry boats. Stick with the Highway in the Sky instead.

😉

No one loves Disney World more than me (AP Holder) but the monorails are in serious need of updating and don’t smell great either.

 

[motm95]

This is a great story. Pics of the kids are priceless. I’m glad the family got em back.

edit: my wife and took our two boys to Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween awhile back and it was a great family outing. I can totally understand why this family would want those shots. 👍

 

[Constable Odo]

Well, that's one reason I'm not necessarily looking forward to owning a folding smartphone with no IPXX rating. I want an everyday smartphone that's as durable as possible. I think the solid slab, one-piece smartphone is the best design for most people

 

[ErikGrim]

My iPhone X immediately and irreparably broke after a 5 seconds submersion in 20cm of water. Just saying.

Funny. I took mine snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. YMMV.

FWIW, an 11 is significantly more water resistant than an X

 

[Steve686]

Damn.
This phone seemed to do better than my Xs Max that I took scuba diving for 30 minutes at 35 feet which died.

 

[MartyvH]

Hi all,

Lisa wasn’t on wifi to upload her pictures. She definitely has iCloud. She did have her other photos on iCloud.

We aren’t sure how deep the area of the dock was when the phone went in the water.

The Disney World employee who called Lisa had said they had just pulled the phone out of the water and it was the only one that worked from the others they discovered

No. We did not buy our daughter an $800 phone. That’s ridiculous.

No. This is not from a Disney World press release. It happened in real life.

Jake

I'm happy for you and the nerve of people to make assumptions like that without taking 3 minutes to read this great story. My hat goes off to the employees of Disney World in Orlando, as well as Apple for a well-made phone. I love good news stories.

 

[BigMcGuire]

PS: Their daughter has great taste in character Jack Skeleton ... A Nightmare before Christmas was a great movie ... still love it today.

Nightmare before Christmas is my wife and I's favorite movie.

Hi all,

Lisa wasn’t on wifi to upload her pictures. She definitely has iCloud. She did have her other photos on iCloud.

We aren’t sure how deep the area of the dock was when the phone went in the water.

The Disney World employee who called Lisa had said they had just pulled the phone out of the water and it was the only one that worked from the others they discovered

No. We did not buy our daughter an $800 phone. That’s ridiculous.

No. This is not from a Disney World press release. It happened in real life.

Jake

Thanks for taking the time to share this. Nice to read something that puts a smile on my face - rare these days.

 

[44267547]

Damn.
This phone seemed to do better than my Xs Max that I took scuba diving for 30 minutes at 35 feet which died.

35 feet? That’s pretty deep, plus, If you think about the timeframe, 30 minutes is quite lonG. Also, with water pressure as you continue to descend, the ingress points on an iPhone are accelerated. For me personally, I wouldn’t complain about your phone dying within 30 minutes, especially at that depth.