Why You Shouldn't Put Your iPhone In Rice 

Me: Puts phone in my pocket Greg: That is why I will explain you why you shouldn’t put you phone in your pocket right now

Me: Puts my iPhone in rice after falling in the sea. Apple Explained: Why you shouldn’t put your iPhone in Rice.

The problem is that usually phones don't get submerged in distilled water, so what happens with water from a pool, toilet, or any other sources of water have salts dissolved in it, that don't evaporate with water. Only water evaporates, leaving behind potential salt sediments that can form bridges in the circuits, changing electric currents that could render the phone useless.

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That’s what repairs man told us 😆

I agree 100% When my phone fell in, the first thing I did was turn it off. Removed the sim tray and shook to remove any water. Kept it on a towel and switched on the fan. Only difference, I bought silicon gel sachets and an air tight bag. Put the phone in it for 48 hours. It booted up and has worked flawlessly for 2 years

Oh so you’re telling me blowing air directly into the phone, isn’t gonna get dust, DIRECTLY in the phone…?

If openings in the chassis are big enough to let rice dust in after you've submerged it, you've got more to be worried about than a bit of dust. Besides, latest iPhones are IP 68 rated, which explicitly stipulates they are water and dust resistant. Rice won't harm it at all, as long as you leave the SIM try in.

Apple explained: do a bunch of random stuff to save your phone Me: **dries the outside with a tissue and plays a bunch of random sounds on max vol**

Well yeah, it would suck to have less rice in the house.

“Putting your wet iPhone in a bowl of rice isn’t the best solution” You’re right, a ziplock bag is sooo much more convenient.

Apple Explained: Why You Shouldn’t Put Your iPhone In Rice Apple Experienced: It worked for me before, and I’ll keep recommending it if anyone asks. Sorry bud.

Apple explained: Why you shouldn’t use your iPhone for a phone call. When you make a phone call the radio waves from a mobile tower can damage the modem inside your phone and the audio signals will cause diaphragm of the speakers to vibrate. More you talk, more persistent radio signals, more damage. More vibrations more damage. Basically, don’t touch your iPhone. Just put it in a showcase🙂

As an Apple user, I just love your channel. Great job Greg and all the best for your future

Take the phone to a certified engineer who can open it and dry it out so you can avoid touching tales when air drying fails you

Apple Explained: Why You Shouldn't Put Your *iPhone* In Rice My Android: 🍚📱🍚

I always tell this to my friends but they never believe me. Now with this video, I hope they understand why it is not recommended to do so. Thank you Apple Explained!

Tip: If you put your phone in a Ziploc bag before putting it in the rice (make sure it's sealed tight), it will keep the rice from damaging the phone! :)

Those methods will never get rid of moisture because as long as the case remains closed it can’t escape completely . Best is to open the case, disconnect the battery, (ideally also unplug all connector cables) use a spray electronic solvent cleaner to displace and/or absorb any moisture in tight nooks and crannies such as in connectors plugs and sockets and let dry for AT LEAST 48hrs with cool forced ventilation. Even when appears dry, any left over moisture condensation will likely cause problems. Do it thoroughly and do it once.

You know, I was thinking about doing this tomorrow. Thank you for this video. My phone isn’t wet, just fancied putting it in rice.

A few years back, a water bottle came open in the same bag as my laptop and I thought for sure it was fried, but I shut it down and let it dry anyway - luckily it did end up perfectly fine. I also put it in a tray of rice upside down to let the water evaporate more easily... but really that's just the Rice Express Lane into your laptop via your speakers. Fast-forward to a quick repair I did a month ago and, even though I thought I had shaken all the rice out, and it's been three years, I found lots of rice. I think the thick neoprene laptop sleeve it was in when the water spilled probably did more good and absorbed most of the water before it even got to my device. It certainly absorbed thousands of times more water than the rice invaders did. TL;DR rice in your laptop makes for a very expensive maraca

I invested in Dodgecoin just to buy an iPhone 12 and a MacBook

The only thing we know for sure is that Apple wants you to buy a new phone

I’ve heard silica packets do the same thing and they’re contained in a packet so that might be a better approach than rice? I’ve put my iPhone in rice before tho after dropping it in the tub and it fixed it so idk who to believe🤷‍♀️

Blow air directly into the lighting port? The fast moving air is just going to push water deeper inside the phone

This happened to me. I dried my phone with a paper towel, took the sim card out, made a nice little igloo with cloth towels, put the phone in the inside, and had a small hairdryer blowing low heat and the lowest setting on it over night. I would flip the phone around every few hours. The next day, less than 24 hours, about 12 hours after it got wet, the phone was back to normal. My hack worked just as well but faster.

Yeah idk about this I’ve had several issues with water under the camera glass and rice is the only thing I’ve tried that fixes it Soooo that alone leads me to believe rice works better at getting water out of the whole phone

1:16 remember to enable AriDry™️ in control centre before though!

Or you could use one of those “do not eat” bags

I remember trying to dry it with rice, it worked but I had a rice grain stuck very deep in my iPhone’s lightning port

Rice does absorb moisture quickly, I’d say must faster than blowing with a fan.

I searched that the other day and expected you to already have a video about it. Coincidence! Nice vid.

Air drying or blowing cool air take ages to remove inside moisture, unless the device is disassembled. Rice or Silica gel is much faster.

Rice has saved 4 phones across 15 years of me using them. sooooo, lmfaoooo "Apple says, so" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhaah

Apple recommends not to do that. Apple says, come, buy a new iphone😂😂

Was wondering, would the drying process be sped up if it's standing up for the first hour? You can position it so the sim card slot is most utilized.

Another good video straight forward and simple for ages 8 to 80

Well buddy, I was given iPhones that had gone through a washer! Put them in a sealed bag of rice in my hot garage! Boom works perfectly??? Have saved many phones this way???

This reminds me of Basic, how to 😉

I don’t even see how one could water damage a modern iPhone to begin with. They’re so resistant that you’d have to somehow leave your phone underwater for more than 30 minutes to cause damage, at least according to the specs.

Why there is no QUAD DAC OR A HIFI DAC AND AMP in any iPhones till date and the spatial audio sound quality is nowhere near the LEGEND LG V60 Sound Quality ?? This can still be given if there is no headphone jack also , the bluetooth audio will get more loud and bassier if we got a good DAC AND AMP

The music in your videos is so peaceful bro

Nope, it’s best to turn the phone off immediately and get the phone professionally taken apart and clean out all signs of water damage ASAP before it’s corrodes any electronic on the logic board or other internals. A water damaged phone has the best chance of survival if it’s professionally cleaned out from the inside out as soon as water has entered the phone. Like you literally need to have it cleaned out the same day or even better which in a few hours. Water damage is like a cancer for a smartphone you have the best chance to stop it if you do something about it early on.

It worked for my iPhone 5s (twice). I used a sack of rice, I buried it deep in the sack for over a day.

Instead putting it in the rice. Get couple of silica gel bags and place it around the phone. The moisture get absorbed much faster....

I used a plastic bag and then submerged it into the Rice. It will not affect the phone at all. And speed up the process naturally.

Put your phone in a nylon stocking, then submerge it in rice. Anyone who tells you this doesn't work is getting paid by Apple.

Apart from the iPhones with the headphone jack, every other iPhone has no holes apart from the charging port. I can’t see how rice can get inside the iPhone through the charging port or the headphone jack if you cover them.

Actually tho, water is way more likely to enter a phone than particles of rice, only if your phone have a giant breach but then the water or the rice arent the problem Also, the rice should be static, you wont shake the place where the rice and the phone are, so there is even less movement to theorically, move sediment inside the phone Finally, yes, rice is awesome to dry things, the problem is the salt dissolved in water what can damage your phone, not the fact of rice itself If your phone doesnt work properly, its because the salt left inside and the presence of rice didnt change that much

Oxidation, is a chemical reaction in which oxygen joins other substances to form oxides. Whether present in air or water, on a material, oxidation causes corrosion in the material. Corrosion is a slow and progressive deterioration of a metal, it can occur by oxidation, by contact with chemicals, by microorganisms or by the electrical union of two metals. (galvanized corrosion) This can accelerate due to an increase in temperature. It is electrochemical corrosion in which some microorganisms can cause corrosion on submerged metal surfaces. In other words, phone aint "water-proof", however, the iPhone circuit-board is covered with a sponge-like material, I believe this is rice and why they mark the iPhone as "Water resistance". IT is IMPORTANT to clean your rice. ALSO if you are going to use rice as a method to absorb moister, I would recommend: Putting clean dry rice inside a coffe filter, or maybe put your phone inside the coffe filter, or putting the coffe filter inside your phone then put the rice inside the coffe filter ontop of your phone inside the rice then ontop of a coffe filter which is inside the rice ontop of a bowl of rice, preferably inside a cold dark basement.

actually i always put my phone on rice when it get wet. and it worked again. instead of leaving phone on air better to put phone into sillica gel to dry it quickly without having worried about dust etc

This video is more for all phones. Instead of just iphones

If your device has gone through high salinity ocean water or in chlorinated pool water, it’s best to first displace that by rinsing under a faucet with clean water, or better yet, 70%+ alcohol. THEN you may air dry the device without risking mineral deposits inside the device or without weakening the adhesive seals.

When my cousin is having their island hoping tour in Coron Palawan, he accidentally dropped his iphone7 and plunged to the shallow depths (close to 2-storey high) of sea water. ‘Twas recovered; however the phone was already shut. As told by the Locals, he then used a bowl of uncooked rice to speed up “drying up” and remove any moist therein. Voila, as quickly as it plunged and got wet, in less 12hrs his iPhone is up and running like no other!

Or you could use the bags with plastic balls in them , the ones form shoes and other things . A fan is useless if you live in a dusty area, because the dust particles are always agitated by the fans vortex created in the room .

A tip. Put it in a bag of silica packets and that will do the trick 👍🏼

Reason: Because tiny microorganisms from the rice eat the iPhone.

No rice, no air, no drying! If your phone is already don't work, it's too late to dry it. Go to service center to recover it. Otherwise you have much chance to get UNRECOVERABLE damage to your boards while device is turned on.

Oh yeah, assuming the air in the room has no lint and dust when "air cooled or fan blow". Disclaimer, Controlled sterile room for "air cooled is sold separately"

using an external heat source is the best idea, actually. removing the sim tray is necessary, but having a water resistant phone means it’s also hard for water to get out anywhere else besides the sim tray. a heat source will help the water evaporate significantly, just not too hot

When my phone got wet, your method saved me. Thanks

My iPhone got water damages today around the time you posted this video, so now I’m feeling quite paranoid.

You should put in the buckwheat or lentils and ilthen into the frying pan in low heat. Let it tender

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I saw in 2010 on The Gadget Show that putting your phone in rice doesn’t actually work. I was living in a care home around this time, so when another resident’s phone got waterlogged, I suggested to the staff that they get a Save-A-Phone bag, which I also saw on The Gadget Show, but they didn’t!

So dipping phones in rice is actually a thing

Title: Why you shouldn't put your iPhone in rice? Me after having a silly moment: Have you tried putting why shouldn't you put your iPhone in rice in rice?

I don't agree but i also don't disagree. First of all, if you have a water damage and your phone is not working, DO NOT WAIT. Take it ASAP to mobile technican to open it, dry it out with alcohol and put it in ultrasonic cleaner, if you wait you can have a corrosion on the motherboard which can cause more damage than it was before and can damage any parts in the phone.

i remember my sister dropped her phone into the toilet and panicked and put her phone into a box of rice. a couple hours later she took it out and it turned on but it was very glitchy so we took it to best buy to see if they could help fix the phone and as we where showing that the screen was unresponsive to touch the phone suddenly started working again and we went home a bit embarrassed. my advice? just dry you phone off and give it time.

What you can do is get some silica gel packets, don’t get loose silica gel beads, they’ll be just as bad as rice. Put your phone in a Tupperware, or a plastic bag with a few silica gel packs and leave it there for a few days. Don’t take ones out of food containers because they’ll have food residue on them you don’t want in your phone, buy new ones at a store.

Back when I used to have an iPhone for work, I'd thoroughly wash it off in the sink once or twice a week with dish soap. Didn't even have a case on the phone; the water never did it any harm.

Because the iPhone prefers apples.

This is great, Would you be able to answer why the speaker holes on the iPhone arnt symmetrical?

Instead of wasting food, you can use the silica gel beads that come in packets that say "DO NOT EAT" Those are better at absorbing moisture than rice. Also, stop wasting rice!

also you could submerge it in destilled water bc it is not the water but the minerals in it which are hurting the phone

yeah making the water seep deeper will prevent internal damage, bravo

i kept having wall-e flashbacks every time he said foreign contaminant

Worked in repairs and I’ve seen people damage the charging port because rice got stuck in there and they tried to take it out. So water damage and charging port replacement 🤦🏾‍♂️

I've put an iPhone5 in a Ziploc bag with silica gel sachets - worked !

I just dropped my iPhone 12 mini in a stream and the water was so high I couldn't find it. After two days with no rain, I went back and the water was low enough for me to literally see my iphone laying there. I picked it up, removed the case, shock out as much water as I could, accidentally hit the power button, and it showed the low battery symbol on the screen. So I took it home and put it in tupperware with rice and will give it 48 hours before trying to charge it and power it on. But I'm confident it will be already, and I'm not removing it from the rice worrying about rice dust. If it still works after being under water for 2 days, I'm not worried about rice dust killing it.

In a beach party organised by my company, I dropped my iphone 11 in the salt water. And it was lost for about 30 minutes. 40-50 of my colleagues helped me find it. And once found I simply turned it off, washed it under tap water thoroughly(the bartender was amused) and turned it on after 36 hours. No damage at all. Been close to 18 months now and running good.

My cousin gave me her old iPhone 8 that got submerged in 6ft of water, and sound and the camera weren’t working, but a few days later it worked and now it’s mine

Does this technique work for ipad? If so, I wish you would have posted this video 4 years ago when i put my iPad under water because I was young and retarded🥲

At first the title seemed really strange to me but now it's all good and nice...

not the best reasons... will still do the rice approach

Hey man. What software do you use to make your videos? It looks incredible

I disagree. My girlfriend's iPhone X wasn't working due to water damage. We let it sit in rice for a couple minutes and it started working again. I was shocked how fast it worked because it was only a couple minutes.

Please make a video on coding, I know it's not related to Apple, but I really want to know how to learn it!

Well my iPhone 11 is terminally broken anyways. It only got slightly wet in the lightning port (wet hands next to pool) and I charged it because I didn't know it was wet. The error message caught me off guard and retrying it resulted in a broken camera & audio system plus a broken sensor that restarts the phone every 3 minutes.

Use Silica gel packets instead, no chance of getting dust or any other contaminants from that.

But aren’t these iphone nowadays are water-resistant? This means that the device will still work incase it gets splashed with liquid, it can be even used for shallow water activities, like swimming in a pool or ocean, they say it can survive up to 19 feet of water for 30 minutes.

Never had an issue with water damage on an iPhone because I have had all my iPhones in OtterBox Defender cases. But I did spill Dr. Pepper on my MacBook Pro a few years ago. That’s even worse.

🤦‍♀️ why are you talking about "iphone" while it's relevant to literally any smartphone?

putting your iPhone in a bowl of silica gel is also a good idea to consider, since silica absorbs moisture, while being too large to enter any internal parts of the iPhone :D

The answer you are looking for in this video is "uncooked rice contains starch and small grains that could easily enter your iphone's chassis." youre welcome.

Very informative. Haven’t dropped my phone or had it wet for one year running. Good to know!

I recommend to put wet electronics into a oven at 50-60°C (120-140°F) for a few hours. NOT 200°C (400°F)!!! Disconnect the battery if possible. Turn off the device, if it's still working.

Did you notice all the recent titles in WHY

Well you can also keep silica gel packs near to fasten the process

Oops. I thought it said "Why you shouldn't put rice in your IPhone."