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 ...

Is your iPhone wet? If so, don't put it in a bowl of rice. Apple's new support doc says rice can actually cause more damage to your iPhone. The company also discourages drying your damp iPhone with a ...

It’s very rare that phone users haven’t dropped their device or never got it wet. Most of us have either spilt drinks on it or accidentally dropped them into the pool or a bucket of water. And it goes ...

If you get your iPhone wet, whether that's by dropping it in the ocean or knocking over a bottle of soda, there has long been general wisdom that one of the best things that you can do is give it a ...

Saving a wet iPhone by putting it in a bowl or bag of uncooked rice has been a popular go-to rescue method for years, with the logic being that the rice absorbs the excess water from the phone.

The iPhone does water resistance so good it's practically waterproof. Apple won't call it that because it technically can't offer the feature. But we've seen countless stories of iPhones surviving ...