this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
127 points (85.5% liked)

Technology

58094 readers
3168 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
127
Stop putting your wet iPhone in rice, says Apple. Here’s what to do instead (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
71 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

What you should not do:

Experts have for years pointed out that’s a bad idea – and now Apple is officially warning users not to do it.

“Don’t put your iPhone in a bag of rice. Doing so could allow small particles of rice to damage your iPhone,” the company says in a recent support note spotted by Macworld. Along with the risk of damage, testing has suggested uncooked rice is not particularly effective at drying the device.

What you should do:

If your phone isn’t functioning at all, turn it off right away and don’t press any buttons. The next steps depend on your specific circumstances, but broadly speaking: dry it with a towel and put it in an airtight container packed with silica packets if you have them. Don’t charge it until you’re sure it’s dry.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's not necessarily the rice itself doing anything, but dirt and particulates on the rice which are conductive and small enough to get inside the device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If your phone is wet, then it’s already been soaked in a conductive material. Putting it in a bowl of dry rice isn’t going to hurt anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Water will dry; dirt and shit won't evaporate if it gets inside the device.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What sort of conductive dirt are we talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you believe that dirt is made up of a single substance? There are salts and metals in dirt.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Salts are not conductive when dry. There are no metals in metallic form in soil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There are no metals in metallic form in soil.

There certainly is in small little pieces that have been pulverized from various shit like erosion. Run a magnet through some dirt and watch it pick up tiny bits of iron.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

That is not iron, it is the mineral magnetite. Iron quickly rusts away and that rust is not really magnetic.