Likewise, you’ll have much better recovery odds with fresh water than you would with salt water, simply because salt water is more corrosive. This should work for almost every instance of severe water contact with an iPhone, though obviously for situations where an iPhone is soaking in water while turned on for 15 minutes or longer your likelihood of recovery is going to diminish dramatically.
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Here’s my iPhone turned on for the first time after a full submersion in water, it works beautifully just as normal, and is dry as can be: If all goes well, it’ll power on as usual, and your iPhone will have survived the water encounter!
If all seems well, go ahead and turn it on as usual. If you suspect the iPhone has any residual moisture left in it at all, do not power it on. Once you’ve waited at least 36 hours, open the rice bag and check out the iPhone. Any less may work but it also could be inadequate, so therefore longer is better. I left my iPhone in the air-tight rice bag for around 36 hours, but there’s no harm in leaving it in for 48 hours. The patience part is the hardest, and generally the longer you wait the better the likely outcome because you want all water inside the device to be completely absorbed by the rice before trying to power it on again. Enriched rice does still work (it’s actually what I used), but knowing now that it leaves a lot of mystery white powder gunked up in places, I’ll probably go buy a bag of normal rice for any potential future water-meets-iPhone encounters.
Rice, any generic type, ideally not “enriched” (more on that in a second)įill a zipper locked bag fairly full of rice so that the entire iPhone will be covered like in the picture below, then place the iPhone into the bag and seal it shut with some air in the bag.Īny type of rice works, but try to avoid enriched rice, the reason being that whatever enriches it leaves a lot of white residual powder in the bag and it will also get into the ports and buttons on the iPhone. A zip-lock bag or similar that is air tight. Ideally you’d have a bag filled with silica gel packets, but who has that? Instead most of us have rice, and rice works. Put the iPhone Into a Sealed Bag Full of Rice Now with all visible water removed, you’re ready to stuff the iPhone into a rice bag (or a bag of silica gel packets, if you happen to have a bunch of those). Disconnect any headphones, ports, chargers, USB cables, or accessories immediately. If you’re out and about or have no q-tips handy, a little stick or sharp pencil poking through a t-shirt or cotton material can work too Use a Q-Tip if possible to try and soak up extra water from the audio output jack and in small crevices. Pay special attention to the power button, volume buttons, mute switch, speakers and microphones, and the audio output jack, try and get all visible moisture soaked up 
Dry out the iPhone as best as you can using cloth (t-shirt, socks, whatever is readably available) or an absorbent material. Remove any case or enclosure right away since they can trap in moisture, screen protectors are fine to leave on unless there’s an obvious water bubble. Turn the iPhone off immediately by holding down the power button until it shuts off. Remove from water as soon as humanly possible (obvious, right? But seriously, seconds can matter here so move quick). Want to save your iPhone? Drop everything and do this first, before putting it in rice: The result is a completely functioning iPhone with zero water damage.Ħ Things To-Do Immediately if iPhone has Water Contact 
Here is exactly what I did, and what I learned from the process of saving an iPhone from extensive water exposure with the good old rice bag trick.
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