Guidance from Apple sheds light on what to do and what not to do if an iPhone gets wet. The most heard piece of advise is to put an iPhone in a bag of uncooked rice to dry it out. But that's one of ...

Apple, the maker of the iPhone, is telling customers to ignore the practice of putting a phone that has gotten wet into a bag of rice to dry it out. Why? Because it doesn’t work. At least not well and ...

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Cellphones getting water damage is nothing new. Before the iPhone, I had a flip phone that fell into a swimming pool. The first thing everyone told me to do was to dry the phone out with rice. The ...

One of the most common bits of advice for those who get their phone wet is to bury it in uncooked rice, but Apple now explicitly advises against this. The Big Tech firm has updated its advice for ...