--- title: iPhone 7 Thrown Off the World's Tallest Building description: YouTube user TechRax shared a video of himself tossing his iPhone 7 off the world's tallest building. canonical: https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T17:24:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:57:05.375Z og:title: This Guy Threw His iPhone 7 Off the World's Tallest Building og:description: Surprise! og:url: https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt140f4134d1ad172c/6988a83b428a9eea06cd4748/screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1714 og:image:height: 964 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy Threw His iPhone 7 Off the World's Tallest Building twitter:description: Surprise! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt140f4134d1ad172c/6988a83b428a9eea06cd4748/screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Happens When You Throw an iPhone Off the World's Tallest Building > Sponsored content. 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Surprise!_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 30, 2016 5:24 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 30, 2016 5:24 PM UTC (**_Gifts:_** [**_The 100 Most Influential Images of All Time_**](http://shop.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/link/1039114.html?xid=cm-TIMEShopscTIMEArticle)**_)_** It seems safe to say that most people who have gotten their hands on the [iPhone 7 Plus](http://time.com/4506167/iphone-7-plus-features-portrait-mode/) have been focused on keeping it as pristine as possible. But in the case of one Ukrainian tech vlogger, the exact opposite was true. YouTube user [TechRax](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmlsu3V3SzIm2Jmo0S0qiMg) shared a video Wednesday of himself visiting the [world’s tallest building](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1951575,00.html), [Dubai’s Burj Khalifa](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1951575,00.html), for a special reason — to drop his [new iPhone](http://time.com/4487993/apple-iphone-7-review/) from the 148th floor. In the clip, TechRax tosses the phone off the observation deck to fall 2,717 feet before heading back down to try and track where it fell. Unsurprisingly, he is unable to locate it. “This thing is fried,” he says. “It’s just completely destroyed. The impact hit it to the point where I can’t track it.” **_Gifts:_** [**_The 100 Most Influential Images of All Time_**](http://shop.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/link/1039114.html?xid=cm-TIMEShopscTIMEArticle) Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/"},"headline":"Here's What Happens When You Throw an iPhone Off the World's Tallest Building","datePublished":"2016-09-30T17:24:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:57:05.375Z","description":"Surprise!","url":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Technology","iPhone","iphone 7"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt140f4134d1ad172c/6988a83b428a9eea06cd4748/screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt140f4134d1ad172c/6988a83b428a9eea06cd4748/screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-42-02-pm","caption":"","creditText":"TechRax","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/","name":"Here's What Happens When You Throw an iPhone Off the World's Tallest Building"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"Surprise!","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4514971/iphone-7-worlds-tallest-building/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```