How to expel water from iPhone and Mac laptop?

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For most electronic equipment, water can be a deadly enemy, especially when we talk about smart devices. It is important to be prepared and know how to act in these moments, because you never know when you may find yourself in a situation like this. Today we will try to explain how to expel water from iPhone and Mac laptop.

Surely you have ever been through a similar situation and you have not known how to react, water, soda, coffee, there are many possible culprits that can do a lot of damage to your computer or smartphone, if you want to know how to act next time, you have reached the article for you.

ambient conditions

laptop in the pool

Let's start talking indirectly. For your device to suffer liquid damage, you do not have to directly spill a glass on it, there are more subtle ways.

have the device on unfavorable temperature and humidity conditions can affect it. Apple recommends using or storing Mac computers in a temperature between 10 and 35 degrees Celsius, it also specifies that humidity should not exceed 95% non-condensing.

In other words, la lluvia, no matter how fine it is, can do great damage, something quite evident and perhaps obvious; along the same line, the fog can harm your Mac.

Another subtle form of moisture damage could be storing your gear in a backpack with some poorly sealed container of any liquid, if the liquid in question is frozen or very cold, even the airtightness of the container could be useless. A container with sufficient insulation capacity should prevent these problems.

Instead, The mobile phones of the bitten apple company are more resistant, because they work in temperatures from 0 to 35 degrees Celsius; Apple's website even states that such devices can be stored between -20 and 45 degrees Celsius without problems. The website does not specify required conditions in terms of humidity.

When the MacBook gets wet

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Now yes, let's talk about the most obvious cases, such as that you dropped your laptop into a toilet, or that coffee spilled on it while you were writing a novel in a Starbucks. On our website there is another article which further explains the treatment to a wet MacBook, you can read it here.

About MacBooks, in this article we will offer more general and easy-to-follow advice for anyone (even those less experienced with these devices).

  • leave it off, don't turn it on, and if it stayed on even after soaking in hot coffee, turn it off! Considers don't turn it on for a few hours, a day or more, depending on how big the soak was.
  • Out wires! Remove everything connected to it, charger, accessories of any kind, headphones, storage disk cables.
  • Put the team in a dry surface, leave it alone rest on a cloth or absorbent cloth, any fabric will work as long as it is dry and clean.
  • Try dry it with a cloth or paper, avoid papers that are too smooth that leave pieces anywhere, or you could create another problem for yourself.
  • Avoid applying heat to the Mac or you could do more harm than good.
  • Wherever you decide to leave the equipment resting, try to get some sunlight; without going overboard, don't fry it either.
  • Throughout this process, avoid shaking or moving the computer too much, or you could help the water that got into it do more damage than necessary.
  • Put it in rice, we leave it to your consideration and judgment, personally I think not so effective as they say, and you may end up damaging your Mac; also how do you get such a large piece of equipment into rice without damaging it?
  • instead you can place the Mac in a V shape upside down, so the water (or any liquid substance) will drain through the keyboard.
  • If you think the accident was too serious to trust a random from the internet, you should go to the Apple Store, maybe the problem is more than these tricks can deal with.

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after a while

If hours have passed since the dip and your computer is completely dry, maybe it wasn't that bad, you could try turning it on; yes indeed, avoid connecting it to the current, at least in the first instance.

Do Macs support liquids?

Between the input ports and the keyboard, Mac devices they lose any possibility of being resistant to liquids or dusts.

Mac warranty against liquid contact

It's sad but... the guarantee does not apply in any of these cases, in fact not even on phones where it is a more common problem. In other words, you will have to pay for any repairs to damage resulting from an accident of this type.

When the iPhone gets wet

wet iPhone

You shouldn't have left the toilet running, you should have checked your pocket before you got in the pool, that's not fish food.

Accidents happen, but there's no time for regrets, follow these tips to save your phone.

  • Take off all the wires connected and turn off the phone.
  • Look for any type of cloth or dry cloth and clean your device softly.
  • Avoid (as much as possible) that moisture in the crevices.
  • Make sure the iPhone is dry if you are going to remove the SIM.
  • Do not use cleaning products or compressed air.
  • Grab the device with the Lightning port down and shake it a bit looking for it to expel any liquid.
  • Leave it in a dry, well-ventilated area (a fan of cool air to the Lightning port can be very useful).

after a while

Once the device is completely dry and they have passed at least 5 hours from the incident, you could turn it on and even try to connect it to the charger.

Can iPhones support liquids?

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It is known that most modern mobile devices are waterproof, Apple could not be left behind, many of its models, mainly the latest ones, have this feature.

iPhone warranty against contact with liquid

As I made clear above, just like with MacBooks, There is no guarantee that can save you in these situations.

I hope I've been helpful. If you think I've missed something, please let me know in the comments.


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