iPhone in dishwasher...

**Honey Dew** · 02-05-2012, 09:30am

I am going to sound like a complete tool here, but here goes!

I just opened the dishwasher mid cycle to drop in a spoon that had missed out and my phone slipped in.

It kind of skidded across the door and plopped into the water.

It was only in for a matter of seconds. Straight away, I took the case off it to help it dry and tried calling my husband (my techie, who, handily is interstate ATM)
He could hear me, but I couldn't hear him. I could hear him when I plugged in the headphones.

The lock screen sound doesn't work either, which is no hardship, but I guess it's connected to the same bit?

Does anyone have any experience of anything like this? Kind of total immersion for a teeny time?

Do you reckon it's likely to dry out and start working again or is it buggered?
It's not insured

Pleeeease tell me it's going to be ok!!!

**Damsella** · 02-05-2012, 09:33am

From what I recall, a) you should stop messing with it immediately, and b) put it in dry rice to help dry it out.

**Amyb** · 02-05-2012, 09:35am

Oh no! When my Apple MacBook Pro laptop got wet we put it on top of alot of dried rice and it worked- dries it out. Maybe try that?- Put it in a bag of dried rice?

**Honey Dew** · 02-05-2012, 09:38am

Thanks girls! I'll do that right now.
Should I turn it off?

ETA ooh, and how long should I leave it in the rice? Overnight?

**Peridot** · 02-05-2012, 09:38am

Originally Posted by Damsella

From what I recall, a) you should stop messing with it immediately, and b) put it in dry rice to help dry it out.

Yes, this and put it in the airing cupboard if you have one.
thomas left my phone in the garden when it was literally pouring with rain and it took a day to come back to life after doing what Damz has suggested. It was never 100% again but did what I needed it to do. Also when it was working again I did an update where you plug it in and it sorted out the issues I was having with the fact it was always making a sound when someone called.

**Peridot** · 02-05-2012, 09:39am

Originally Posted by Honey Dew

Thanks girls! I'll do that right now.
Should I turn it off?

I didn't as I was too obsessed with keeping on checking on it

**Lilybett** · 02-05-2012, 09:48am

Leave it in the rice for as long as you can bare and turn it off if you can. They recommend that you leave it in rice in the airing cupboard for about 48 hours (although I cracked after 24). Really hope its ok.

**RedVelvet** · 02-05-2012, 09:54am

Having had two phones do a complete cycle in the washing machine (yes I know

I now have very cheap phones + an ipod touch for this reason) I know the rice works, however last time the screen went a couple of months later and the chap in the phone shop said that often happens a while later. Hope it dries out well.

**Elvisola** · 02-05-2012, 10:00am

Yes try rice, take battery out asap though. My iPhone has got a bit damp a couple of times and the sound always goes. It all seems to work again after a day or 2, presumably when it dries out, with no ill effects.

**Faith** · 02-05-2012, 10:02am

Turn it off- if you leave it on when wet it might short circuit.

Leave it it to dry as long as possible- have you any of those silica gel sachets from handbags etc? They'll work best, rice/airing cupboard will do too.

**BonnieTyler** · 02-05-2012, 12:17pm

I dropped my blackberry torch (touchscreen) in the dishwater, I left it in the dry rice for about a week before it worked properly again.

**scatterbrain** · 02-05-2012, 06:16pm

As far as I'm aware you have to keep these things off & battery out until they are thoroughly dry (a couple of days in an airing cuboard). Don't be tempted to try it before then. When I dropped wine over my laptop OH said it's turning them on when wet that fries them.

**Chell** · 02-05-2012, 09:20pm

You can't remove an iphone battery ladies.

The rice worked when I dropped a phone in the loo. When I dropped one in the paddling pool and washed one in the washing machine it didn't work for either.

**Honey Dew** · 02-05-2012, 11:36pm

Yaaaaay!! Thanks to you wonderful ladies, I'm back and my phone is working again!

I switched it off and left it in the rice for about 15 hours.
Switched it on again this morning and it seems all good! Hopefully, it will stay working and I will take better care of it!

Thanks again

**Peridot** · 03-05-2012, 01:03pm

Phew that was lucky honeydew

In future I think you'll find this case is perfect for you

http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?...ulnl&pid=64176

**Honey Dew** · 03-05-2012, 01:11pm

you're not far wrong, Peri!

Reuben sat his toy phone in the rice today and then made Jemimah howl by taking hers off her because "it needs to go in the rice!"