Faizan Choudhry and Maddy Wells – via SWNS

A lost iPhone survived for an incredible two-and-a-half months submerged in a river, and it still works.

Faizan Choudhry lost his iPhone 14 Pro Max on July 4th while tubing on the Delaware River along the New Jersey–Pennsylvania border.

What seemed like a lost cause took an unbelievable turn when, on September 19, the Edison, New Jersey native received a phone call from a woman, who told him she had found his phone.

He met her the following day and was amazed to see it powering on for the first time after being submerged in water for months.

The 24-year-old has been using it now, with only a slight flaw in the camera operation.

“Believe it or not, it works perfectly fine,” Choudhry said.

“I do have a little bit of a problem with the camera—it’s a little bit blurry when it gets light, and it’s not able to catch the light properly.”

His photo collection survived intact; the whole outcome being stroke of luck.

Early this month, Maddy Wells, a retiree from Bluffton, South Carolina, who was visiting the river with friends for a canoeing trip, spotted the Apple device.

“We circled back and picked it up, brought it home dripping wet, and tried plugging it in,” Ms. Wells told SWNS news service.

“We got it to power up, and my friend showed me how to get the emergency contact information. “When it finally lit up, it actually said July 4th.

“I was shocked. That means the phone was in the water for two and a half months.”

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Faizan Choudhry / SWNS

The phone displayed a “lost phone” message with Choudhry’s contact number, which allowed Wells to call him on September 19 and arrange for the device’s return.

Because he had switched to a new phone but kept the same number, Wells was able to contact Choudhry directly, and leave a voicemail.

“Hi, good evening, my name is Maddy, and I have managed to find an Apple phone on the Delaware River,” Wells said, “and it actually still works.”

She gave Choudhry her number, adding she “would love to get this phone back to you somehow”.

After receiving Wells’ voicemail, the young man was initially skeptical about the legitimacy of the call.

“I was sketchy about it a little at first, thinking that I might be getting scammed or something,” he said. But he changed his mind when Wells sent him a text with a picture of his phone.

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Choudhry made the hour-long drive to meet Wells at the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum in Lambertville, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I was just mind-blown.

“I mean, you wouldn’t expect something like that after two-and-a-half months being in the water.”

Calling the iPhone “the star of the show,” Wells says the story felt like “a happy ending”.

“Our whole lives are in these phones now. It didn’t even occur to me not to try to get it back to him.

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“There were lots of smiles when we met.”

She later received a Visa gift card for her kindness, which she described as “so very generous”.

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