iPhone dry out?

My phone 6s dropped in water momentarily, it has been in rice and the freezer for 48 hours, it rings and sounds text alerts, but screen is black. Is it toast?

iPhone 6s, iOS 12

Posted on Mar 1, 2019 10:23 AM

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Posted on Mar 1, 2019 10:37 AM

Yes. It is toast. Call your local Apple Store and make an appointment to examine it. Afterwards they will tell you your alternatives.


Putting the iPhone in the freezer was a very bad choice. It probably finished the destruction started by the water.

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Mar 1, 2019 10:49 AM in response to onedogs

Rice is a desiccant (albeit not a very good one) but frozen water does not work with a desiccant - a desiccant absorbs water vapor, so the water has to be liquid so it can go to vapor phase for absorption.


But regardless, water damage is very rapid - as soon as an uncovered energized connection or circuit gets wet, it shorts out damaging the hardware beyond recovery. And corrosion occurs very rapidly too, in a wet and electrified system.


So simply drying out a wet electronic device is never likely to recover it.

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