Some users fooled by fake iOS 7 ads claiming it made their iPhone waterproof

BY Gautam Prabhu

Published 24 Sep 2013

iOS 7, Apple’s latest mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch sports an all-new user interface and comes with 200 new features and improvement such as the all-new Control Center, smarter multitasking, AirDrop, iTunes Radio and some really cool hidden features, but it does not (and cannot) include waterproofing feature.

It looks like these 9 fake ads on 4chan, an image based bulletin board telling users “Update to iOS 7 and become waterproof” fooled some users.water_ad_1 water_ad_2 water_ad_3 water_ad_4 water_ad_5 water_ad_6 water_ad_7 water_ad_8 water_ad_9

It looks like some users have even fallen for the hoax. The Telegraph and The Daily Dot reports:

“Whoever said ios7 was waterproof **** you,” wrote one user on Twitter.

“whoever said ios 7 was waterproof go die as i almost broke my phone,” wrote another user on Twitter.

Here’s a Facebook post where people are discussing the feature:

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Hilarious! I guess now I will have to add the waterproofing feature to our iOS 8 wish list.