Akk! Spilled Smoothie on Phone

Title says it all… chocolate banana smoothie dumped on my iPhone 6 this morning. It covered about the bottom 1/3 of the phone, and got into the bottom where the charging and jack plug in, and on the button. I immediately turned it off, took it out of the case, wiped it off, and tried to keep it upright (so nothing ran further inside through the connection points). Stuck it in a cup of rice. Searched the internet for ideas, but nothing popped except the normal advice about liquids. This is a little more viscous, though. Suspect I am going to have to start phone shopping…

Am guessing you don’t have Apple Care? If not, yea, it sucks.

Nope. Honestly, I’ve had it over 2 years, and it has a lot less memory than I want (16K). I have been contemplating getting a new phone, but have been too cheap to follow through. I just did more googling, and found one recommendation to rinse it with water to get the sugar out because that is what will really damage the inside, then stick it in the rice. No added sugar in the smoothie, but the almond milk it was made with has some sweetner in it, and the banana and cocoa power can’t help. But I can’t bring myself to run it under the faucet. :frowning:

Try getting yourself a can of contact cleaner (not tuner cleaner) and spraying it into the ports, that should allow you to flush it without causing any kind of damage. Contact cleaner is hyrdophillic, and should clean out the gunk in there, should break down the sugar and stuff. Worth a shot if you would have to replace it anyway. Only rub is where to find it, with radio shack out of business, a hardware store or home depot might have in in their electronics section (where they have things like coax cable, antenna wire, etc) or a sears might have it.

Hmm… is it the sort of thing Best Buy might have?

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They might, might be worth a shot (their website doesn’t show it), someplace like walmart may have it or target as well, it used to be pretty common item but these days who knows. If there is any kind of an electronics parts place, they definitely would have it, or a standalone hardware store might, too.

I don’t have a suggestion but I do know Radio Shack is still around (at least near me) and Fry’s Electronics is another (much bigger) store with the kind of stuff Radio Shack would have.

Sorry to hear about your phone.

I was just at an HD, they have the contact cleaner in their electronics section, with the coax cable and such.

Found some at Lowes and applied it. Back in the rice, where I am going to leave it for a couple of days. Fingers crossed… thanks for the tip!

good luck, let us know if it worked!! Did you get to drink some of the smoothie?!!

I was about 2/3 done when it spilled. And it did come out of the cream colored cloth placemat that the phone was sitting on. (After I cursed, ran in circles, got the phone in as good a shape as I could – then realized I better put the placemat in the washing machine).

Did you buy phone with a CCard that has extended warranty? S has successfully made acclaim with two CC companies for cracking his screen–one the Discover card he bought phone with and the second was with WFargo with whom he pays all the cell phone bills. He got a refund for one screen with each company. He was also in the process of getting reimbursed for my cracking my screen as well.

I bought it through Verizon; the phone bill does charge to a credit card, but it is sort of round about. Not sure if it would work… Not even fully sure it is dead yet, though.

Go to the Apple Store. They might be able to clean it out!

Definitely would second theApple Store suggestion. I’d be afraid to turn it on --wouldn’t want my hand to be the one that fried the phone. :frowning:

I’m surprised an extended warranty from a CC company reiburses for accidental damage. (I would have thought it only covers what the original warranty covers). I’m going to have to remember that.

S was able to get reimbursed at least once per cracked screen repair by Discover and WFargo. He purchased with Discover Card directly from Apple. I believe he was also reimbursed for my screen repair.

D1 spilled some coffee with milk into her laptop keyboard – the laptop worked fine after drying out but failed catastrophically 9 months later (bad motherboard, keyboard, and power port) which I suspect was from corrosion from the sugar in the milk. D2 poured an entire large glass of water into her laptop 2 months ago-- after drying out, it still works normally (which is not to say well). I guess time will tell. But I have read that sugar is quite bad for electronics, and my limited experimental data suggests that if you want the phone to last, you should make sure that the sugar is out. Alternatively, if you get it started back up, trade it in while it still works!