Rice just isn’t included in Apple’s official steerage for a moist telephone

Getting water on telephones occurs to one of the best of us. Fortunate for us, there’s one family staple the web constantly suggests will draw that liquid out and save telephones: raw rice. However opposite to in style recommendation, Apple, like most individuals in tech help, explicitly advises in opposition to placing your moist telephone in a bag of rice. 

“Don’t put your iPhone in a bag of rice. Doing so might enable small particles of rice to break your iPhone,” Apple help paperwork stated.

The help paperwork first noticed by Macworld are technically addressing what to do if you get the liquid detection alert in your iPhone. They’re not simply out to place a protracted lingering web delusion to mattress.

To that finish in addition they instructed avoiding utilizing an exterior warmth supply, like hair dryers, or compressed air to blow off liquid. Additionally, don’t insert cotton swabs or paper towels into charging ports both.

As an alternative, Apple suggests tapping your telephone in opposition to your hand with the connector pointing down. Consider it like getting water out of your ear after swimming. Then, simply depart it in an space with good airflow to dry and wait half-hour earlier than charging it. If the alert nonetheless pops up, depart the telephone and simply wait. It might probably take as much as 24 hours to essentially get dry. Unplug the charging cable and reconnect if the telephone is dry however nonetheless isn’t charging. 

For years, rice was imagined to be the factor that might dry out waterlogged electronics sooner. It’s a desiccant that folks assumed would draw extra liquid out. I did it after stubbornly refusing to show my iPhone off throughout a rain-soaked Taylor Swift live performance. Nevertheless it was in all probability the time spent powered down and out of my arms that helped my telephone—not a dunk in rice.

The Verge wrote manner again in 2015 that raw rice wasn’t very absorbent, so it’s largely the time spent drying out that labored. And leaving it in a bag of rice typically retains telephones out of sight, out of thoughts, so folks don’t get tempted to energy it on.