BREAKING NEWS – Cupertino, California – Cellphones getting water damage is nothing new. Before the iPhone, I had a flip phone that fell into a swimming pool. The first thing everyone told me to do was to dry the phone out with rice.
The idea is that the rice will draw out any excess water, saving your phone from being destroyed by water damage. This method remains many people’s tried-and-true method for saving a waterlogged phone. However, a new support document by Apple has just come out, and the company is asking people to please not place their iPhones in a bowl or bag of rice.
Apple is warning customers that placing their iPhones into a bowl or bag of rice might actually slow down the drying process and damage their phone’s internal components. In particular, the company warns that small particles of wet rice may end up in your iPhone, damaging the phone’s logic board. They also said that customer support originally posted an image of an iPhone in a bowl with what people assumed was rice. They were trying to show their customers what would happen if an iPhone was dropped near some spoiled meat, and what appeared to be rice, was actually maggots.