Man returns lost iPhone to its owner using Apple’s Medical ID feature: All the details

People lose phones all the time, but not many get them back—unless it’s an iPhone (pun intended). There have been many heroic tales of how iPhones were found in working condition even months after being submerged underwater. A similar story of a man finding a lost iPhone has surfaced again, and this time, the Medical ID feature of the Apple device helped the man return it to its owners.

Here’s what happened

The story was shared by a Threads user called Thiago Itagaki in a post on the social media platform. He revealed that he found an iPhone while swimming at Brazil’s Maresias beach. The phone was 3 meters deep in water and about 10 meters away from the sand. He asked the people sitting by the beach if the iPhone belonged to them, but no one answered in the affirmative.

“The phone was completely out of battery. It also had a case with three credit cards in it. I tried to find the owner by name but couldn’t find anyone I was sure was the right person,” he said.