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 ...

One of the most common bits of advice for those who get their phone wet is to bury it in uncooked rice, but Apple now explicitly advises against this. The Big Tech firm has updated its advice for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple is pushing back on an age-old tradition for drying out your iPhone. The company updated its support tips for drying out a ...

It’s very rare that phone users haven’t dropped their device or never got it wet. Most of us have either spilt drinks on it or accidentally dropped them into the pool or a bucket of water. And it goes ...

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 ...

If you drop your iPhone in water or simply get its USB-C or Lightning connector wet, here is how you should handle it to ...

The world of consumer electronics has its own share of urban myths. Some of them are actually so mainstream that no one even dares question their efficacy. Burying a wet phone in rice is one of them.

Uh, oh, your phone fell into the pool *** total or worse the toilet, it looks fine from the outside. But what's happening inside? I know what you're thinking. I'm fine because I have one of these ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you get your iPhone wet, whether that's by dropping it in the ocean or knocking over a bottle of soda, there has long been general wisdom that one of ...