It can be a great inconvenience when your phone is drained, particularly if there is an emergency.
For one British schoolgirl, such an emergency came when she dropped her phone into a storm drain and became stuck while trying to retrieve the device.
Student Ella Birchenough, 16, said the phone slipped from her grasp as she went to put it in her pocket.
Not wanting to lose the phone, she hopped in the drain to try to fish it out. But getting into the drain proved easier than getting out.
And others on the street, who still had their smartphones, snapped pictures of her predicament.
When Birchenough’s panicked mother arrived on the scene in Dover, England, she called in firefighters to rescue her daughter from the jam.
The firefighters had her out within 10 minutes of arriving at the scene on Wednesday.
“I wasn’t really even stuck, I just need somebody to help lift me out, but my mum got all panicky,” Birchenough told the Daily Mail.
“When they pulled me out, I ran straight home and jumped in the bath. I think it was just water, but I wasn’t taking any chances.”
Birchenough was not injured in the incident, however, it was fatal for her phone.
“I was just laughing the whole time, I have seen the funny side of it. You just have to laugh along with it,” she said.
“There have been a few nasty comments about me being fat, which isn’t nice, but I’m trying not to take it to heart.”
And the final indignity: She may have to use an old Nokia while she waits for a new iPhone.
This article originally appeared on News.com.au.