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A YouTube video really can remove water from your iPhone

A YouTube video claiming it can remove water from your iPhone might seem up there with emails from Nigerian princes...

A tech writer who was understandably skeptical about the comments on the video decided to call in iFixit to put the claim to the test … I encountered it for the first time earlier this year after my nephew’s phone slipped out of his pocket and into a river near our Airbnb in a tiny town in Virginia. “The lowest tone that that speaker can reproduce, at the loudest level that it can play,” says Eric Freeman, a senior director of research at Bose.

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