My phone fell in the toilet for about two seconds I was able to snatch it out is my phone damaged I put it in a bucket of rice for three hours is my phone ok or do I need to take it to apple?
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iPhone 13 Pro Max
Rice as a desiccate (to dry out) is an old wife's tale, which doesn't work with electronics. In fact, rice dust could get lodged in the charging port, which would not be good.
Keep an eye on your iPhone. If it starts to show any unusual symptoms, you'll likely need to get a replacement device. Hopefully, the minor swim will be of little consequence. I would recommend you backup your phone to ensure no loss of data, should the phone be water damaged.
Somewhere, sometime, someone told people to put their electronics in rice if they got wet. It's bad advice all the way round. It can actually cause more harm and if water actually got inside the phone, rice could not do a thing to stem any damage that water can cause.
Rice didn't dry out the speakers. They simply dried out. You can do as you wish with your phone. I'm suggesting its not a good idea to put an iPhone in rice.
Once, my iPhone got some water in it's speakers. They sounded garbled. I Put it in rice for a few hours and it sounded better. What does that mean? (Hope I'm not coming off as annoying. Just trying to learn as much as I can)
I was saved by placing it in a bowl of uncooked rice 2 ½ times
first time when I fell in a lake with an iPod touch 3g and a Sony xperia
both were revived from the incident, the iPod touch still works in a dock so the batt need not be used.
later on my iPhone 4 got a red wine spill into its connector and the lower left square of the screen was red and it
said it was in headphone mode, after once more a 48hours of being in a Bowl of uncooked Rice on a heated bathroom flood the red was just a smudge, and my mum inherited it when I got an iPhone 6s until it was replaced by my dads iphone6 which she use to this day
lobsterghost1, what's the origin of that myth? Everybody I know seems to buy into it.
Not sure how to respond to that; I'm being told 2 different things.
I, for one, will be sure to read these.
Happy reading. Not one of them suggests rice as a useful way to remove moisture from an iPhone.
My iPhone 13 fell into water. Do I need to take it to Apple?
