It’s an awful feeling: Your iPhone, the handheld mini-computer that holds your whole life, gets wet, and you need to fix it — like, now. The newer the iPhone, the more resistant it is to water and ...

Cellphones getting water damage is nothing new. Before the iPhone, I had a flip phone that fell into a swimming pool. The first thing everyone told me to do was to dry the phone out with rice. The ...

Have you ever dropped your phone in a lake, pool or toilet? If so, you’ve likely heard you should put it immediately in a bowl full of dry rice. Putting a wet phone in rice does not save it from ...

LONDON (AP) — You were walking next to a swimming pool when you slipped and dropped your phone into the water. Or it slipped out of your hand when you were next to a filled bathtub or toilet. However ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — You were walking next to a swimming pool when you slipped and dropped your phone into the water. Or it slipped out of your hand when you were next to a filled bathtub or toilet. However ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. LONDON (AP) — You were walking next to a ...