Watch an iPhone spontaneously combust in Ohio (video) - PhoneArena

You whitethorn retrieve the

Galaxy Note 7 fiasco from respective years ago, but a caller video shows that iPhones are not bulletproof against spontaneously catching fire. In Apple's defense, this instrumentality was a decennary old—an existent iPhone 4 successful cleanable moving order. Well, not anymore.

The occurrence happened successful the location of Brian and Jennifer Leisgang of Ohio, who near the iPhone charging overnight connected the room counter. Fortunately, cipher got wounded during the incident, and a information camera caught and recorded everything.

"We were highly fortunate to debar a location fire. Our kids were charging our aged iPhone 4 with the pome charger past nighttime and it exploded and caught connected occurrence successful our room portion we were sleeping. Luckily we had conscionable cleaned disconnected the antagonistic yesterday arsenic it usuay has tons of schoolhouse books and papers successful that area. There we’re tiny pieces of the telephone and achromatic soot each implicit the antagonistic this morning. I’ve posted the video beneath and anticipation sharing this tin perchance assistance forestall a occurrence successful idiosyncratic else’s house," wrote the mates successful a

Facebook post.