iPhone left behind at the Jungfrau – strangers get it back to Taiwan

It is the kind of mishap after which you usually write the phone off. A man from Taiwan was visiting the Jungfrau with a tour group, took some photos – and left his iPhone 17 Pro Max on the mountain. By the time he noticed, the group had long since moved on. Several Taiwanese outlets have reported the story, including NOWnews, Mirror News and the China Times.

A plea with low expectations

The man's daughter saw in the Find My app that the device had last been located near Wengen. On Threads she wrote that the chances were probably slim but she wanted to try: could anyone travelling to the Jungfrau soon keep an eye out?

The post spread fast. According to the reports it collected tens of thousands of likes and was viewed more than a million times. Commenters called it a “boss-level” quest. One user wrote that he was planning to go up on 7 or 8 November anyway, weather permitting, and could help look. Others shared the appeal, checked the location data and gathered information about lost-property offices.

The phone checks in

Then the iPhone suddenly reconnected to the network. Its new location: Eigergletscher station. According to the reports, a foreign tourist had apparently found the device and handed it in at lost property.

In the end a traveller from Taiwan took time out of their own Swiss holiday to collect the phone. The daughter posted a photo of the device in Lost Mode and thanked everyone who had helped – for a task the family itself had almost given up on.

This account is based on Taiwanese media reports about the Threads posts. Landauf has not verified the posts independently.