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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flag with the Apple logo hangs in front of the Apple Store. Julian Stratenschulte/dpa The well-known method of trying to dry out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is your iPhone wet? If so, don't put it in a bowl of rice. Apple's new support doc says rice can actually cause more damage to your iPhone. The company also discourages drying your damp iPhone with a ...

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Apple, the maker of the iPhone, is telling customers to ignore the practice of putting a phone that has gotten wet into a bag of rice to dry it out. Why? Because it doesn’t work. At least not well and ...

Modern smartphones despite being water-resistant to a certain level are still prone to malfunctioning in some cases. This is a common problem encountered by everybody that also makes them anxious. As ...

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.