iPhone trick: YouTube videos can save your wet smartphone’s speakers, here’s how

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iPhone users have been boasting the water resistance capabilities of their phones for a long time now. Although iPhones aren't waterproof, they get a decent water resistance rating and are known to perform fine even if you forget to take them out of your pocket before jumping in the swimming pool. Although recent iPhones do not cause much trouble when they accidentally fall in water, however, users may face some issue with the speakers. But YouTube has a solution for everything, isn't it? It turns out there's a video on YouTube that claims that its sound can remove water from your iPhone. Uploaded with the title Sound To Remove Water From Phone Speaker ( GUARANTEED ), the video has had more than 45 million views in the past four years. The claims of the video were put under test by The Verge's David Pierce and iFixit, and the result is what thousands of people in comments already stated.

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To test the claims of the video, The Verge's Pierce reached out to iFixit to prepare a test. An iPhone 13 was dunked in water with UV dye, iFixit then played the video and left the device to dry out overnight.

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It was found that the YouTube video's sound was able to expel water for the iPhone's speaker. Not just iPhone, the video was able to get the water out from the speakers of other smartphones too. But it is worth noting that the video was only able to remove water from the speaker area. The water wasn't draining out from the entire phone and if you have water in the SIM slot, USB port or beneath the buttons, the video won't work. The oscillating tone in the YouTube video is able to push water out of only the speaker grille.

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