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Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
- miles 3y agoThe effectiveness of commercial desiccants and uncooked rice in removing moisture from hearing aids[1]: "White rice shows promise as an effective alternative to commercial desiccants in reducing moisture in hearing aids when silica gel products are unavailable." [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27869510/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27869510/
- vinni2 3y agoThat's on hearing aids not sure if this finding is transferrable to smartphones. Here is the recommendation from experts in fixing electronics https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice
- codeflo 3y agoThere’s probably a piece missing in the article’s simplified explanation, but if corrosion were in fact “instant” as claimed, nothing should help, as the damage would already be done. Probably it’s not really instant, just very fast, and displacing the water with alcohol is the quickest way to get it out before it can do even more damage.
- andybak 3y ago> Open your device as soon as you can, take out the battery Well. Fuck.
- UK-Al05 3y agoExplanation literally doesn't make sense.
- suprjami 3y agoI wonder if rice could be used to dry 3D printer filament? Can the rice be recharged by drying in the oven like silica gel?
- instagib 3y agoYou can place rice on a baking tray spread out very thin for a day or so. Also dry it in the sun for added effect. If you have extra, then deep fry it. Great cheap crunchy addition to some meals. It’s a key ingredient in Thai rice salad, or “khao yum”.
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- ryanjshaw 3y agoEverytime I get anything with a bag of silica gel (electronic product boxes, medication bottles etc.), I toss the bag into an airtight plastic tub where I collect them. I've only needed to use the tub a few times, but it's always worked to remove moisture from electronic devices and cost me nothing.
- cassianoleal 3y agoYou can also reuse them after they're saturated if you remove the moisture by heating them up. I've been doing that for dry boxes to store 3D printing filaments for years.
- monster2control 3y agoIve set my my oven to 125 - 175 degrees, then turn it off and put my phone, watch and even a PC in there to dry them out and dehumidify them for up to an hour. I then wait a day and then put them back to power. I’ve restored all non water proof devices this way so long as the battery doesn’t swell it seems to always work.
- leipert 3y agoCelsius or Fahrenheit before people destroy their hardware?
- perryizgr8 3y ago> even a PC in there Wow your oven must be huge.
- askonomm 3y agoI assume by PC he means motherboard and components on the motherboard, not the whole case.
- guappa 3y agoWhat gigantic PC do you own that doesn't fit in the oven? An entire server rack?
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- bertil 3y agoApple: “Anything you do to salvage your phone that isn’t buying a new one isn’t a good idea.”
- taopai 3y agoWait, soon Apple will sell bags of rice for 50$, only compatible with iphones...
- bamboozled 3y agoiRice
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoWarning: iRice is not compatible with MacRice, use proper Rice product to dry your device.
- voidbert 3y agoTheir argument doesn't even make any sense - rice particles may damage your already damaged phone.
- frizlab 3y agoApple is not the first to say this… https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice
- msy 3y agoAt no point does this article mention the minor detail that iPhones haven been completely waterproof for generations now.
- deelly 3y agoSorry, but you are wrong, IPhones is not waterproof, just water resistant. Put IPhone in a water for a day, it will not survive. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108039 https://support.apple.com/en-us/108039
- michelb 3y agoApparently many iPhones are fished out of water after 1 or more days and are still working fine.
- frizlab 3y agoSome even after some months (or even years IIRC but I can’t find the link) https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/03/iphone-recovered-from-edinburgh-river-after-year-underwater https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/03/iphone-recovered-...
- calgoo 3y agoI was thinking the same thing! I was washing my iphone under running (using soap) weekly during covid and have not had any issues. Like they say, try not to get it into the charging port, as you have to wait for it to dry out before plugging the phone into the charger.
- davidbanham 3y agoIt absolutely does mention that. > That is because devices are increasingly able to withstand getting wet. > All Apple devices from the iPhone 12 onwards are able to withstand immersion up to a depth of six metres, for up to half an hour. > But with cost-of-living pressures driving growth in the global second-hand mobile market, it is likely that many people will need advice on what to do - and what not to - with a soggy smartphone for some time yet.
- chasingthewind 3y agoWhen my daughter was a teenager she dropped her phone in the toilet and fished it out and put it in rice to dry. We didn’t see any rice in the trash, and so we continued to question her and it turned out she had simply returned the rice to the cabinet afterwards. :P We threw out the entire bag, of course.
- emadda 3y agoWho would throw out perfectly good iRice