<p>Did a quick search and it is now wiped dry and in a bag of rice. Does anyone have any advice or experience with this? (Excuse me while I go change into dry clothes.)</p>
<p>Just don’t give up on it too soon…this happened to my daughter over the summer. We left it in the bag of rice for 24 hours. It did take a while (up to a couple of weeks) for everything to be working again, but it did all come back. Good luck!</p>
<p>If you have the tiny screwdrivers you can get the back off. If you can get the back off I’m sure it would dry out even better. The key is not to be tempted to turn it back on until it is truly dry. Turing it on with moisture is bad. It will work for a little while, then eventually die.</p>
<p>I’ve read not to turn it on, but should I turn it on to swipe it off?</p>
<p>If you have any of those little desiccant things that come with medicine, etc., toss them in the bag.</p>
<p>I have read that you have to rinse it off in cold water before shutting it off. That gets rid of any particles that were in the water you dropped it in.</p>
<p>I droppeb my phone into a very dirty fountain in Florence, and it took at least half an hour to get it out. I rinsed it in cold water, took out the battery, wrapped it in toilet paper to absorb moisuter (rise is much better - if you have it, put it in a zip lock bag with rice), and left it off for 2 days I think. When I turned it back on, it came back on.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about iPhones, but I think rinsing it off should work for both - not sure what to do about the battery or turning it off.</p>
<p>Thanks, all. I read a recommendation to turn it off; unfortunately the touch screen doesn’t work.</p>
<p>After rice, soak in rubbing alcohoI don’t know if this will work but it worked for DH’s iPod.</p>
<p>I did that once and I took out the battery and dried it with a hair blower. You can try that if you need to. Not too hot or too close</p>
<p>This is where having a user serviceable battery is nice. Don’t have to try and turn it on from a low power state to make sure it’s turned off.</p>
<p>Anyways, make sure it’s off (there might be a shortcut like holding the power button for 15-30 seconds where you won’t need to swipe the screen, google around to see if there is one for your phone), take it as much apart as possible, then let it sit in a bag of rice for a few days.</p>
<p>Not sure if I’d trust the idea of rinsing it in cold water a whole lot depending on how hard your tap water is. I could possibly see rinsing in rubbing alcohol since that’s non-polar and should help remove any water that’s remaining.</p>
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<p>Most hair dryers have a ‘cool’ setting. That would be appropriate to use in this kind of situation. Then you don’t have to worry about getting it too close or overheating.</p>
<p>“I have read that you have to rinse it off in cold water before shutting it off. That gets rid of any particles that were in the water you dropped it in.”</p>
<p>Good advice, wrong explanation. It is not “particles” that clean tap water gets rid of - it is salts. Pool water may not taste salty, but it is full of salts. It is probably too late for this poor phone.</p>
<p>Bunsen is correct - the salts will corrode the connections. Not sure that a freshwater swimming pool will have enough salt to damage, though. If that is the case, rinsing in alcohol, distilled water, etc. probably won’t help because the salts will adhere to the connectors (polar?). S2 went swimming with his iPhone in the Adriatic a few months ago - very high salt content - we tried all of the above, plus some. The moisture was less of a problem than the salt - after a few days of rinsing/rice, I touched my tongue to the power connecter and it tasted salty! It was hopeless.</p>
<p>The best suggestion we received was to open the phone and blow out with a can of compressed air.</p>
<p>If electricity goes across the circuits while wet, it will be fried. Don’t turn it on in any way - not even to turn it off. Take the battery out if you can and dry it out.</p>
<p>Unless you can take it apart to expose the circuit board, the hair dryer won’t do much good. The bags of rice may help keep it in a dryer environment, desiccant would probably be better, but even that’s limited in what it’ll really do.</p>
<p>An iPhone is pretty closed up and sealed, including the battery, so it’s not necessarily straightforward to get it open enough to dry out well and verify it’s dried out. Moisture could easily stay inside for days and maybe weeks.</p>
<p>Since it’s an iPhone - if you have an Apple store nearby, take it there and see if they can do anything about it - maybe at least taking the back off to let it dry and be certain it’s dry. You should do this soon. </p>
<p>And when none of that works, head back to the Apple store with some money for a replacement.</p>
<p>Other than that, was it a good swim?</p>
<p>Good luck. D has had this happen so many times (and survived) that she finally bought a waterproof case for her new phone. A little pricey, but the profile is hardly bigger than a regular case.</p>
<p>This can be used for taking underwater videos with your phone:</p>
<p>[LifeProof</a> iPhone 5 case - waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof protection. FREE SHIPPING | LifeProof](<a href=“http://m.lifeproof.com/shop/us_en/iphone-5/iphone-5-case/]LifeProof”>http://m.lifeproof.com/shop/us_en/iphone-5/iphone-5-case/)</p>
<p>Mine is the hideous pink colored one. 
It looks and feels just like a regular phone case, but the audio quality for Skype and other apps takes a hit because of the phone’s construction. There are apparently waterproof earphones available.</p>
<p>Son’s touch screen didn’t work for a while after dropping in water and going through rice treatment (came on though)–another couple days and it started to work too. Don’t give up hope!</p>
<p>If you have APplecare, they will sell you a new phone for $100 or so, perhaps less if it is a older model, if the rice doesnt work.
Dont try turning it on.</p>
<p>I was in an apple repair man’s shop. I had a broken screen and needs to be replaced.
The first thing he looked was if the phone had been in the water. He has three spots to look once the back of the phone is removed. Those are built in indicators of water bound. He told me, he will not touch a phone if the phone had been in the water, because lots of connections and cables in the phone will be damaged even if you blow dry the phone right away.</p>