evidence: A social media post casts doubt on the existence of the iPhone, asserting that a Japanese journalist filmed an iPhone 13 in 1980. The post includes visuals of a person holding a phone and claims the video, allegedly recorded in 1980, depicts people exploring abandoned Hiroshima, where an individual discovers an iPhone and mistakes it for a mirror (here & here). This article fact-checks the claim made in the post. Claim: A video recorded in 1980 shows a person discovering an iPhone 13. [...] To sum up, visuals from a recent 2023 Japanese series are being falsely shared claiming that an iPhone 13 was filmed in 1980.