You can dunk the iPhone 6 in water. They are fairly water proof, but it is not part of the product specification.

Now they consider the waterproofing good enough to guarantee it.

> Now they consider the waterproofing good enough to guarantee it.

Well, no, since liquid damage isn't covered by the warranty, there is no actual guarantee. There is a claim (and maybe a third-party certification) of meeting a particular standard, but that's different from a guarantee -- its marketing with no risk of having to pay out money if the performance isn't up to snuff in practice.

A guarantee puts warranty money where your marketing mouth is.

I don't think he meant guarantee in that sense.

I think he just meant that now the waterproofing is good enough to advertise it as a feature. Making it official, so to speak.

I've heard of people living in really high humidity areas activating the water sensors in their phones and being refused warranty replacements.

Seems like the new thing is if you drop it in the pool/bathtub/toilet (and quickly retrieve it) you should be fine

until now they weren't officially water resistant. I'm guessing that'll make a difference if you have a warrenty repair and the phone has been wet..

iPhones are currently 'splash resistant'. Now they're 'swim resistant'. They are now up to the IP67 standards.

IP67 is not good enough for swimming (1m submersion). Note the emphasis of the watch being able to be swum with, but for the phone they only showed it being used when it was raining

The new watches are swim resistant. The phones aren't.

Ah, thank you. I got that confused.