GREENSBORO, N.C. — Whenever you see the picture of a cellphone in a bag of rice, you instantly know what occurred. By some means, the cellphone received moist and the rice is the well-known hack to dry it out. 

However now Apple says the rice hack is an enormous do not. The Apple web site has a help web page dedicated to liquid detection and cellphone points. 

On the listing of Don’ts:

Do not put your iPhone in a bag of rice. Doing so may permit small particles of rice to break your cellphone. 

Do not use a cotton swab within the connection website.

Do not use an exterior warmth supply (like a blow dryer)

Apple up to date its help web page in early January 2024 about what to do if you get a Liquid Detection Alert in your cellphone. There are two totally different alerts, one if there’s liquid detected with a connector twine, or if there’s liquid detected within the connector a part of your precise cellphone. 

There’s a complete listing of issues you are able to do to dry your cellphone together with tapping your  cellphone with the connector dealing with down after which leaving it to dry for half-hour. or as much as 24 hours in the event you can see liquid within the connector itself. 

There’s one other key half to this if you wish to cost your cellphone however you suppose there is a liquid challenge which makes plugging it in a problem, however having a wi-fi charger is the reply. 

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