In fact, using rice to dry out your wet smartphone may end up damaging your device even more, and iPhone repairs are expensive enough.

Many smartphones cost $1,000 or more. Knowing how to take care of these investments are important, but most important of all is knowing how to get water out of your phone. We talked to experts ...

A view of a wet smartphone placed in a bowl of rice to dry, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. There’s a lot of advice on the internet about what to do if you drop your phone in water, some of it ...

The most common DIY solution to dry-wet gadgets, especially smartphones, is placing them in a bowl of uncooked rice. This method is widely shared online and many people use it in emergencies. But ...

Internet forums are chock-full of advice to dry out that drenched device, but problematic myths about liquid protection and repair make it hard for consumers to separate fact from fiction.

Google says leave the device to dry at room temperature. A view of a wet smartphone placed in a bowl of rice to dry, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

However your smartphone got wet, you now need to dry it. But what do you do? There’s lots of advice on the internet, some of it conflicting. Apple inserted itself into the debate recently when ...