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Can a YouTube video really fix your wet phone?

Here’s one for the shower scrollers.

The content: two minutes and six seconds of deep, low buzzing, the kind that makes your phone vibrate on the table, underscoring a vaguely trippy animation of swirled stained glass. No one at Apple, Google, or Samsung offered a more interesting answer than to point to a generic “what to do if your phone gets wet” support page, but a couple of other folks I talked to indicated they thought the theory seemed reasonable enough. But these aren’t perfectly controlled tests, Mokhtari was careful to note: a phone’s seal can change over time or be broken in unnoticeable ways.

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