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Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone

Put the bag of rice down and just turn the iPhone off.

Lucky for us, there’s one household staple the internet consistently suggests will draw that liquid out and save phones: uncooked rice. But contrary to popular advice, Apple, like most people in tech support, explicitly advises against putting your wet phone in a bag of rice. To that end they also suggested avoiding using an external heat source, like hair dryers, or compressed air to blow off liquid.

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