The 4 step plan: What to do when your iPhone has fallen into water?
The 4 step plan: What to do when your iPhone has fallen into water?
HELP! My iPhone just fell into the water!
You might recognize it: You are having some drinks with friends and at the moment you walk to the toilet your phone rings. You see it’s you grandma and decide to pick up. While you place your phone between your ear and shoulder you try to multitask. And to be honest, as a man this is kinda tricky. While you are letting it all go you are trying to explain your grandma you really haven’t been drinking – and by the way, never do! – until the moment your male genes do what they do best: fail to multitask.
After that, for some odd reason you move your head resulting your perfect iPhone between-ear-and-shoulder-construction gets interrupted. Therefore, as a result, in slow-motion you see your phone make an Olympic dive in the reservoir of your toilet. In a split-second discussion in your head you decide you care more about your iPhone then your hygiene principles and quickly grab your iPhone out of the toilet. Desperately you look at your phone, what should I do? Is this the end? How can I get my phone to work again?
Don’t worry! ThePhoneLab is here to inform, assist and help you. In this blog you will read our 4 step plan on what to do when your iPhone has fallen into water?
Step 1: Turn off your phone!
You might still remember: do not blow dry your hair in or near a bath, because electricity and water equals big trouble. This is also the case for your iPhone. When electrically charged parts of an iPhone come into contact with water, this can lead to the terminals burning out. This can often only be fixed by complex solder repairs, which are expensive and often of no use. Once your phone has come in contact with water, every second counts. Therefore, once your phone has come in contact with water try to turn it off as soon as possible. Also do not try to charge it! Is the phone not turning off? Then visit one of our stores for an iPhone repair as soon as possible!
Step 2: Clean the surface
Thoroughly clean the surface of your iPhone with a cloth or any other moisture-absorbing object you can find nearby. Try to brush away any leftover water. Also pay attention to your audio jack input and charging input.
Step 3: To rice or not to rice
Immediately put your smartphone to dry with the screen facing down. Rice indeed helps with the extraction of moisture, but rice is not literally going to draw the moisture out of the pores of your phone. It remains rice, not a magic miracle cure. As every little bit helps, we still recommend that you put your phone in a bag (preferably a vacuum sealed bag) filled with rice and leave it there until you take the device to a repairer.
Stap 4: Visit ThePhoneLab as fast as possible
When the harm is done it is important to accept that this is going to cost you money. Even though it might seem like your phone is oké and still working, permanent damage can also occur later if there is still water in the device. So take your phone to a technician after the fall, who will open the phone and remove any moisture with special tools.
Be aware that a water damage investigation can be very expensive at most repair companies. At ThePhoneLab we remove water damage and investigate any defects starting at €30. Te biggest part of the iPhones that have suffered water damage and are being investigated at ThePhoneLab, the most of the screen and / or the battery has become defective. But after repairing the defect most of the phones work again as normal
