In a support document published a few weeks ago, Apple spoke on a central topic regarding the iPhone, the use of a rice bowl in case of falling in water for the smartphone of the apple. Indeed, a tenacious urban legend asserts that rice grains have magical properties and are capable ofdry a phone faster.
This solution, recommended and used millions of times by Internet users, has however found very little response from scientists. However, numerous studies have looked into the subject to try to understand how rice could have an influence on the water present in the iPhone.
Their conclusions are unanimous, putting a phone in rice does not dry it out faster, it simply allows the user to feel less responsible for the accident that they have often caused. In its support document Apple returns to this subject and draws the same conclusions.
An iPhone in rice, a danger?
The apple brand explains that putting itsiPhonein rice would even be dangerous. Indeed, in addition to having no impact on the drying time of the iPhone, rice particles, sometimes microscopic, could become lodged in the charging port of the device and damage certain components.
Apple therefore specifies that you just have to let your iPhone dry in the open air. The Apple brand assures that with a little patience the phone will function normally in the vast majority of cases. An observation shared by scientists. Apple also recommends against using a hairdryer or cotton swab to remove excess water from iPhone components.
Here again the arrival of a foreign body could do more harm than good. As for the hairdryer, such heat can have unfortunate consequences on the iPhone's system, which must always operate at precise temperatures and pressures.
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