My mom's iphone was dropped somewhere in the alps and found a year later by a hiker. Still worked after a charge, in fact the phone itself gave the hiker enough info to get it returned. My sister's phone fell out of a bike basket and was repeatedly run over by cars. We used the "find my" feature and found it in the gutter, screen pulverized, in the shape of a banana but still operational and communicative over USB. Tech can be surprisingly resilient if it doesn't suffer moisture incursion. Or it can die just sitting there like my old laptop's screen. Turned it off a month ago, put it on the shelf, tried to use it yesterday, only the hdmi port gives video.