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An iPhone 17 Pro dropped from 30,607 meters over northern Sweden without a parachute survived the fall in working condition, setting a Guinness World Record for the case maker that staged the test. A stratospheric phone drop test on June 24, 2026 Guinness World Records certified the attempt on Aug. 26 under the title "highest drop of a mobile phone in a phone case (natural landforms)." The drop took place June 24 above the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, in Swedish Lapland,