How to get water out of iPhone speakers
If your iphone speakers are not working due to an unfortunate water accident don’t worry we have rounded up al the best ways to remove water out of your iphone speakers.
There are three ways to remove water from its speaker grills.
How does it work?
There is a way which uses a sound of a certain frequency to remove the water out of the iPhone speaker grills. The working function is same as, the official water eject feature on Apple Watch. You can use any method which you like to use.
Before you begin:
First of all wipe the wet iPhone using a soft dry cloth.
If your phone is affected by anything other than water (tea, coffee, juice, wine, etc.), clean the affected area with clean water and water pressure should not too high.
Mae sure any cable like earphone, or any accessory sholud not be connected.
Do not plug your wet iPhone into charging. Forget charging for the next 5 hours!
Do not open the SIM tray of a wet iPhone.
Do not insert anything inside the Lightning connector or the tiny speaker grills to dry water inside it.
Follow these three Ways to get water out of iPhone speakers
Use the Sonic app
Use Water Eject Shortcut
Using tone-generator website
1. Use the Sonic app
Install the free Sonic app and open the app.
Put the iPhone on a flat surface. Use the volume up button to set it to the maximum.
Tap-and-hold down on the water drop icon.
Now, swipe anywhere on the screen to set the frequency to a number between 160 to 200.
Repeat the above process multiple times (until you see no water droplets being pushed out of the speaker grill.) Automatic: If this does not help, tap the water droplet icon and let the app make the appropriate sound frequency to push water out.
Note: Manually changing frequency is of no use in the automatic mode.
2. Use Water Eject Shortcut
Before you start: You have to allow untrusted shortcuts on your iPhone. For this, go to Settings → Shortcuts → toggle on Allow Untrusted Shortcuts.
Add Water Eject shortcut by Josh0678 using this link.
After that, tap My Shortcuts. Next, tap the shortcut to run it.
Tap Begin Water Ejection. Make sure iPhone volume is set to max
3. Using tone-generator website
Visit a website like FixMySpeakers or OnlineToneGenerator.
On FixMySpeakers, click on the water droplet button to start playing a sound.
On OnlineToneGenerator, tap PLAY. You can use the slider to adjust the frequency. Take caution. Make sure not to damage your iPhone speakers!
Once water droplets stop coming out of the speaker grills, pause the sound.
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Other recommendations
Dry water using a fan or blower: Apple recommends using a fan or blower to accelerate the water evaporation. Make sure to take proper caution while following this.
Silica gel (better than rice): Raw rice works. But it is a very slow process that may take over 24 hours. We suggest get better and quicker results use Silica Gel. For this, keep your iPhone in a closed box with a few packets of silica gel.
Apple support: Finally, if you find that your iPhone speakers still sound muddy, give it some hours, and then contact Apple Support. You can also take your device for inspection at an Apple Store or authorized service center.
