Cellphones getting water damage is nothing new. Before the iPhone, I had a flip phone that fell into a swimming pool. The first thing everyone told me to do was to dry the phone out with rice. The ...

Many smartphones can survive a quick dip in some water, but water can still seep in through small, unseen cracks.

Safe for water immersion (IPX8): The second number in an IP rating grades water resistance from zero to nine (immune to ...

You were walking next to a swimming pool when you slipped and dropped your phone into the water. Or it slipped out of your hand when you were next to a filled bathtub or toilet. However your ...

Apple, the maker of the iPhone, is telling customers to ignore the practice of putting a phone that has gotten wet into a bag of rice to dry it out. Why? Because it doesn’t work. At least not well and ...

All models of the iPhone released in 2025 meet the IP68 splash, water, and dust resistance rating. Apple states that this means these devices can withstand being submerged at a depth of 6 meters for ...

The iPhone does water resistance so good it's practically waterproof. Apple won't call it that because it technically can't offer the feature. But we've seen countless stories of iPhones surviving ...