The 4-step plan: What to do when your iPhone is dropped in water?
The 4-step plan: What to do when your iPhone is dropped in water?
HELP! My iPhone fell into the water!
You know the drill: you’ve had a few drinks and you get a call from your grandmother just as you’re walking to the bathroom. With your phone to your ear, you decide to answer it and indulge in the world’s most impossible task for any man: multitasking. Peeing, you try to explain to your dear grandmother that you haven’t been drinking -and never do, by the way- until the moment your male genes do what they are incredibly good at: fail at multitasking. For some inexplicable reason, you move your head in such a way that the beautiful iPhone-between-ears-and-shoulders construction is interrupted and your phone, in slow-motion, takes an Olympic plunge into the tank of your toilet. In a split-second discussion in your head, the decision is made that your iPhone is more dear to you than your hygienic principles and you quickly grab your iPhone out of the toilet. Desperately you look at it, what to do? Is this the end? How will I ever get my phone working again?
That’s what ThePhoneLab was created for. Herewith 4 tips: What to do when your iPhone is dropped in water?
- Step 1: Don’t turn on your phone (turn it off!).
- Step 2: Clean the surface
- Step 3: To rice or not to rice
- Step 4: First aid for water damage
Step 1: Don’t turn on your phone (turn it off!).
You may remember: don’t go blow-drying in the bathtub because electricity and water means trouble. The same goes for your iPhone. When power-charged parts of an iPhone come into contact with water, it can cause connections to burn out. This can often only be fixed by complex solder repairs, which are pricey, and often to no avail. The moment your phone is in the water, every second counts. Therefore, after your iPhone falls into the water, try to turn it off as soon as possible and do not turn it back on. Don’t put it on the charger either. Can’t get your phone to turn off? Then stop by one of our locations as soon as possible for an iPhone repair! See our locations here .
Step 2: Clean the surface
After your iPhone falls into the water, thoroughly clean the surface with a shirt cloth or other moisture-absorbing object that is nearby at the time. Try to wipe away any residual water. Also pay attention to your audio jack input and charging input.
Step 3: To rice or not to rice
Immediately lay your smartphone to dry with the screen side down. Rice does indeed help extract moisture, but rice is not going to literally pull the moisture out of your phone’s pores if your iPhone has fallen into water. It’s still rice, not a magic wonder drug. Since every little bit helps, we still recommend putting your phone in a bag (preferably a vacuum pack) filled with rice and leaving it in there until you take the device to a repairman.
Step 4: First aid for water damage
When the harm is done, it is important to resign yourself to the fact that this is going to cost you money. Even though your phone may have stayed on, permanent damage can also occur later if there is still water in the device. iPhone dropped in water is a very annoying and risky problem. So take your iPhone to a technician as soon as possible after the fall, who will open the phone and remove any moisture with special tools.
Please note that a water damage examination at most repair companies can be very pricey. We at ThePhoneLab remove water damage and examine any defects starting at $30. Of the iPhones that have suffered water damage and are brought here for examination, the vast majority have suffered screen and/or battery failure. Most devices work completely again after these are replaced.
