This past weekend I had a near tragedy. I washed my iPhone in the washing machine. Here’s how it happened since I am super duper careful with how I treat my possessions. First, my dog vomited on m
y comforter. I put down my iPhone on the bed, not my night stand, and cleaned up the mess. Later that morning, I gathered the comforter and put it in the washing machine. Luckily my washing machine is a front loader and it uses water sparingly, which means, the iPhone was never submerged in water. Another lucky thing is that the iPhone was protected in the middle of the comforter. It got wet, but never drenched as if I had dropped it into the deep end of the pool.
To dry my iPhone out I put the air on in my car. The car air is as dry of air as you can get. I put my iPHone in a mesh bag and taped it to the front of an air vent to let the dry air run through the phone. I used warm air, not hot. I left it running through the heated air for about an hour. After that I took my phone and put it in rice in a vacuum bag. The rice draws out the air and the vacuum
bag allows no moisture in. So far, my iPhone works fine, and the streaks in the screen are clearing up. I am hoping the streaks on the screen will completely dry. I have kept the iPhone in the vacuum bag with the rice for two days. I plan on leaving it in the bag overnight and checking it tomorrow morning again. I kept from using the phone for 2 days now because I really want the components inside to dry out and not heat up and corrode since the water I was using had soap mixed in. I have not checked the speakers yet.
Overall, if you ever drop your iPhone in water, to dry it out, use warm air, never hot hot air as in a blow dryer, and then put your iPhone in a bag of rice and seal it. I used one of those food save
r vacuum bags and used a Ziplock vacuum to take all the air out. The vacuum bag will allow the air to stay dry and keep moisture out. the rice will also help soak up any moisture left. Also be sure to take the SIM card out. This will allow the phone to air out even more giving access to inside the phone, even thought that slot is small, it still can help dry out the phone.
