According to several tech experts, the YouTube video could help you remove water from a wet iPhone or Android smartphone.
Submerging a wet phone in rice is an old trick, but The Verge’s David Pierce and iFixit suggest you can achieve the same result by playing a YouTube video on it.
There are several YouTube videos that show how to remove water from your phone. One video titled “Sounds of Removing Water from Your Phone Speaker (Guaranteed)” has been viewed more than 45 million times.
People who commented on the video have formed a community in the comments section, saying they watch the video over and over again every time their phones get wet.
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Pierce wanted to see for himself, so he teamed up with the folks at iFixit to run some tests. For the experiment, they took an iPhone 13, a Pixel 7 Pro, a Pixel 3, and a Nokia 7.1, and submerged them all in UV light for about a minute. After that, they took the phones out, played a YouTube video, and left them overnight.
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The next day, they found a Pixel 7 Pro with very little water left, a broken Nokia 7.1, and an iPhone 13 and Pixel 3 in somewhere in between.
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While the shock of the sound initially pushes the water out, it’s important to note in the video that the water was only removed from the speaker area — opening up the iPhone reveals UV dye stains in other areas, indicating the water didn’t drain from the entire phone.
The Apple Watch has a dedicated feature that uses sound to flush water from the device, but the same feature isn’t available on the iPhone, as there are more holes and cavities through which water can get in.
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In conclusion, if your phone does get wet, playing water removal videos on YouTube might help, but the best solution is to prevent your phone from getting wet in the first place.