Apple has recommended against using a bag of rice to dry up a damp iPhone.
Even though the method is widely used, experts have long advised against using it since testing seem to indicate that it is ineffective.
Furthermore, the IT behemoth itself has released instructions alerting customers to the possibility that tiny grain fragments could harm their gadgets.
Instead, the company advised customers to carefully tap out any moisture while keeping the phone connector facing downward and then let it dry.
Even while cellphones are becoming more and more sophisticated, common methods for drying them out after being dropped in water are still quite simple.
Apple has seized the chance to recommend against using a number of them.
It says not to use bags of rice and to use “external heat source or compressed air” (i.e., stay away from heaters and hairdryers) to dry a wet phone.
Neither should users attempt to put “a foreign object, such as a cotton swab or a paper towel” into their phone, it advises.
It advises users to leave their phones in “dry areas with some airflow” as an alternative, and then reconnect them to a charger.
The website MacWorld, which discovered the new support page first, points out that all of this advise might become obsolete in the future due to changes in smartphone design.
This is a result of gadgets’ growing resistance to moisture.
Starting with the iPhone 12, all Apple devices can survive submersion for up to 30 minutes at a depth of up to six meters.
However, since rising costs of living are fueling the global market for used smartphones, it’s probable that many individuals will require guidance on what to do—and what not to do—when faced with a damp smartphone for some time to come.
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