My iPhone Got Wet! How To Fix iPhone Water Damage.

Apple experts explain what to do when your iPhone gets wet and how to fix iPhone water damage.

If your iPhone just got wet and it’s an emergency, skip to 2:52 to find out exactly what to do to (hopefully) save your iPhone!

0:20 Background Information About Water Damage
1:17 How To Tell If The Inside Of Your iPhone Got Wet: Check The Liquid Contact Indicator (LCI)
1:28 Symptoms Of iPhone Water Damage
2:51 What To Do When Your iPhone Gets Wet
2:52 Remove Excess Water
3:32 Remove The SIM Tray
4:37 Put Your Phone On A Flat Surface With Desiccants
5:18 Wait 24 Hours, Turn On, & Back Up Right Away
5:47 Why You Should Never Use Rice To Try To Dry Out Your Phone
7:02 Other Methods You Definitely Shouldn’t Try
8:42 How To Avoid Water Damage

When your iPhone is exposed to water, it's important to act fast.

First, wipe away any liquid on the outside of your iPhone. Then, remove the SIM card and lay your iPhone on a flat surface with some desiccants, if you have them. Don't put your iPhone in a bag of rice — rice won't absorb moisture, and grains can get lodged in your iPhone.

Wait about 24 hours and try to turn your iPhone on again. If it turns on, back it up immediately! Symptoms of water damage can appear weeks or even months after your iPhone got wet.

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[lukasgomolsky]

Who else watched this with a water damaged phone

[datbdy]

I literally did everything they told me NOT to do.

[carrilynsteffanipesengco]

me watching this after tilting my phone vertically in a bowl of rice and horizontally bc i watched tiktoks for 3 hours straight after it being in water: 👁👄👁

[OofBoy]

My phone was literally in the water for 0.5 seconds, and I’m panicking lol

[kelsibenggon]

The desiccant packets work! Accidentally got my phone wet by dropping it in a puddle of water and used rice initially to dry it out, but then I decided to try putting it into a plastic bag with a small desiccant bag for 48 hours and it turned out fine

[Rootythest]

Thank you for the great advice. My old iPhone 11 Pro has dried out and the Face ID after stopping working and the camera lenses all fogged over has dried out and all working again. I am so pleased.

[sentfromheaven]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! My iPhone wouldn't turn on and I suspected it was water damage, so I did the things you said to do and it worked! The haptic engine feels weird now, but besides that the phone works just as good as it used to.

[brownmm]

I was trying to take under water videos with my 11 pro max trusting their features that it's water resistance and now it won't turn on. it's been like a day

[misskimtaerea]

When l heard ''display discoloration''!
I was like duck

[itsmesherwin]

Thank you so much🥺❤️ I’ve Taked a picture coz I thought it was Waterproof HAHAHAHAHAHA So I left my Iphone 7 48hours Covered with Discant Silica Gel And it work thank

[jm_]

Can we just talk about why the dude on the left has no eye brows



Edit:omg thank you for so
Many likes omg

[rafaelp]

I wish I found this video before I put my phone inside the rice about to 3 days. Still not turning on.

[chitvtm]

Should i place desiccants directly on display or on top of the screen protector?

[robertwestworth]

Thanks for this article on water damage. Unfortunately I didn’t watch it until three days after I fell in my pool with my iPhone in my pocket.
I tried everything you said not to do with the exception of rice. Luckily my home and contents insurer is going to replace my poor drowned iPhone.

[godswordjesus]

How about putting it on the left edge, so the water goes away from the mother logic board. Gravity will pull the water away from the logic board. Take out SIM tray, and put phone on edge SIM opening up. Also put descants around the phone near the bottom to assist the gravity. The negative to this is that this will pull the water toward the battery. But if needed, a battery can be replaced much cheaper/easier than a mother board.
What do you all think?

[flfunno]

I watched the entire video and it is great but I am left with a relevant question. Would a vacuum cleaner be effective at all at helping to extract water from the iphone?

[mkaylahbursey]

i literally dropped my iphone 11 in water for 0.5 seconds and i’ve been draining it and playing sounds to get the water out and now it has lines on it. i’m pissed. also i typed this on my ipad

[kennedyvincent]

I washed mine in the sink for like a minute max and it wasn't submerged under meters of water it was like under running sink water for a minute. Although I was probably very dumb for washing it I had a good reason to. Anyways after I was finished washing the phone it was perfectly fine. I later on realized that it started glitching and acting crazy so I turned it off and it's still acting crazy so at this point I don't know what to do. By the way the phone still works but it still glitches at times.

[ghostlyshadow]

What is he saying there’s water in my phone I can’t hear anything

[CaylasCorner]

THANK YOU!!!! I just dropped my new I phone SE in the toilet for 0.1 second and had a panic attack and luckily I don’t have damage. Well, when I plug it in this thing that is like wet charger could leave to damage so idk what that means.