Here’s what to do if your iPhone gets wet. Hint: Don’t put it in rice
Apple has officially warned users not to put their iPhones in rice if they receive a “liquid detected” alert. The support note was published last month and first highlighted yesterday by a report from Macworld, which provides news on Apple’s products. Putting a soaked phone in uncooked rice has been a popular Internet myth for how to save it if accidentally dropped into water, but it’s one that had previously been called into question. One 2014 study from an electronic device rescue service found that rice was not an effective way of drying a cell phone and that it was less effective than leav...