Ever accidentally dropped your iPhone in water? As you may have heard for more than a decade, the popular advice would be to turn the phone off and place the device in a bag or bowl of rice so it ...

During the summer, it's common to take your iPhone with you to places like the beach, pool, or river. While you may not intend for your phone to get wet, accidents happen. Luckily, most iPhones are ...

Apple is issuing a warning about a popular remedy used to aid a wet iPhone. In a recently released support note, the technology company detailed why putting a water-soaked mobile device in a bag of ...

Safe for water immersion (IPX8): The second number in an IP rating grades water resistance from zero to nine (immune to ...

In the age of ubiquitous smartphones, iPhones inevitably get dropped in water or doused with a drink or splashed on by rain or a rogue wave. In a state of panic to prevent permanent damage of these ...

Shit: You dropped your iPhone in water, and now it won't turn on. If you're like most of us living in 2024, your first instinct (other than to panic) is to drop it in a bag of rice to soak up all that ...

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 ...

The iPhone does water resistance so good it's practically waterproof. Apple won't call it that because it technically can't offer the feature. But we've seen countless stories of iPhones surviving ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — As rugged as iPhones can be, ...

The technology company said using the food to remedy a wet mobile device "could allow small particles of rice to damage your iPhone" Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began ...