Water Damage iPhone

What should you do if you drop your iPhone in water?

DO NOT PLUG YOUR LIQUID DAMAGED PHONE INTO A CHARGER OR ATTEMPT TO POWER IT BACK ON!!!

I know everyone has heard the advice, “Put your phone in Rice”, right? If it makes you feel better go ahead but you are doing absolutely nothing to rid your phone of the liquid! The rice does not absorb moisture, this is a common false assumption that we in Cell Phone repair hear often. I am going to lay out the only thing you can do to give your phone a better chance at survival especially if you need the data contained inside. Electronics and liquid do not mix so if you have liquid that has obviously gotten inside your phone the last thing you want to do no matter how tempted you are to do it,  is plug it in and charge it!!

Basically if your phone will not turn back on its because a component inside the phone has a short to ground. No not the ground your standing on but the electrical kind. So this means that if you hook it up to a charger you are pumping more electricity into a ground which will do nothing except more damage! So when someone says it has a “short” they are saying that there is a short to ground, all of the power in the affected circuit is no longer going where it should but instead getting pumped into ground which as a byproduct produces heat. One of the ways we find shorts is to look for the hottest component on the circuit board when power is applied.

There is no such thing as a water proof phone (as of today). All phones are rated as water resistant to certain depths. Most phones can survive the rain however I would not trust their water resistance any further than that. Cases also help as long as they are rated as water resistant.  

The quicker you get your phone to someone who Is experienced In iPhone data recovery the better the chances of getting your data back! When I say experienced I am talking about a business that offers data recovery as a normal service. Don’t be fooled “Liquid Damage Treatment” is not the same as data recovery!  A business that offers data recovery as a normal service will have the specialized tools and schematics necessary to give you the best shot at success.

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