How to rice a iphone 6+

I dropped my iPhone 6+ in the toilet and now its glitching how do I go about riceing it to get the water out?

Posted on Oct 24, 2018 10:17 AM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2018 10:21 AM

The idea that rice has magical properties that can fix this is a myth.


Make an appointment at the genius bar and get an out of warranty replacement.

The only thing you could possibly accomplish by putting it in rice is that the time you spend waiting for it to do its magic will allow the phone to dry enough that you could potentially back it up one last time before getting it replaced.


The damage is done. Even if you manage to get it semi working again, it's only a matter of time before it fails completely. If the liquid has impacted the battery or charging circuit, it's no longer safe to use.

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Oct 24, 2018 10:21 AM in response to stormy294

The idea that rice has magical properties that can fix this is a myth.


Make an appointment at the genius bar and get an out of warranty replacement.

The only thing you could possibly accomplish by putting it in rice is that the time you spend waiting for it to do its magic will allow the phone to dry enough that you could potentially back it up one last time before getting it replaced.


The damage is done. Even if you manage to get it semi working again, it's only a matter of time before it fails completely. If the liquid has impacted the battery or charging circuit, it's no longer safe to use.

Oct 24, 2018 12:16 PM in response to stormy294

"Riceing" is not a thing. Rice for water damage is a myth, you might as well just leave the phone on a counter. The problem isn't that you need to dry out the phone, the problem is that when water and electricity mix bad things happen. Drying doesn't "erase" or clean the corrosion that occurs instantly when water hits an electrically active logic board. The reason so many people perpetuate this myth is that many times you can drop a phone in water, leave it alone for awhile and then it continues to work with no detectable ill effects. This is because *some* of the time water never penetrates inside the phone and finds its way to the logic board to cause problems. For those lucky phones, the water just evaporates like it would out on your counter, and the phone continues on. Anyone who put a lucky phone like that in rice will *believe* that rice cured their phone. But that is not the case. Luck and time cured their phone.


Your phone is "glitching" which may *only* be a screen problem, but more likely your phone is in the unlucky majority---which means that water has penetrated your logic board. In that case you'll need to have some cleaning and microsoldering done to make the phone work again in a robust way. That can be really hard to find because most shops offering 'water damage cleaning no warranty' are not desoldering the metal shields that cover 80% of the logic board, so they often aren't treating a lot of the damage. Shops that DO remove shields usually don't offer water damage repair because it is simply too laborious and costs add up to bring the phone back to a reliable condition. Those shops just offer 'data recovery' to bring the phone back to life with enough function to backup the data.

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