Taiwanese man's iPhone returned one year after it fell into lake By (0) A Taiwanese man surnamed Chen said his iPhone still works after spending a year at the bottom of Sun Moon Lake. Photo by aixklusiv/Pixabay.com April 7 (UPI) -- A Taiwanese man who dropped his iPhone into a lake while paddleboarding said the phone was recovered when a drought caused the water to recede a year later -- and it still works. The phone's owner, a man with the surname Chen, posted in the Bao Fei 1 Commune group on Facebook that he dropped his iPhone 11 Pro Max into Sun Moon Lake while he was paddleboarding on March 15, 2020.