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iPhone Water Damage Repair Steps

A majority of the time your water damaged phone can be repaired. From ocean water to the washing machine, from a mild spill to complete submersion, it really does not matter. We have refined and perfected the process of water damage repair for your broken iPhone. 90% of the time, we can repair your phone to a fully functioning iPhone that has that out of the box, like-new functionality. iFixYouri is the industry leader in water damage repair

iPhone water damage is one of the most common iPhone repair types we see. It is also one of the most deadly to iPhones if you allow corrosion. As the video shows, it is imperative to remove the iPhone out of the water ASAP. Once the iPhone is out of the water, you want to make sure it is powered off.

If you get a white pinwheel on the screen and it won’t turn of, you hold down the power button and home button until it turns off. In the video we failed to record it powering back on after we powered it off. We simply repeated the ‘power off process’ and moved on to the next important step; remove the SIM card.

Once the SIM card is removed you want to put the iPhone in an uncooked bag of rice. Tighten the bag so all extra air is gone and seal it.

If you follow the above above steps and mail the water damaged iPhone we can fix it as good as new. If you decide you want to see if it works for yourself, wait 48 to 76 hours after the water exposure and then try it out. If you find at that time it is not functioning properly as a result of the iPhone water damage put back in the rice and mail to us.

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If you still need professional help, we do provide these services for anywhere in the country.

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iPhone water damage repair – Can a phone be fixed after getting wet?

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Here’s a real-life iPhone water damage scenario: Beautiful day, the sun is shining, the weather is great. Friends and family are over for a nice BBQ by the pool. Your buddy decides to shove you into the pool as a prank. You laugh until you realize…Ahhhh, your iPhone is in your pocket! You immediately jump out and begin to panic.

WHAT DO YOU DO?!

Here’s a little breakdown of the game-plan; EXACTLY what you should do. Remember, time is of the essence.

  1. If the phone is ON, TURN IT OFF! Just do it. Water and electricity combined are not what you want. Give them some time apart.
  2. DO NOT TURN IT BACK ON!
  3. Remove any case that you may have on it and remove the SIM card.
  4. Dry it with a towel, and shake out excess water.
  5. Place phone in a bag of silica gel beads, available at most hardware stores. If you don’t have any silica gel on hand, you can put it in dry rice while you go to the store.
  6. Visit our website and select the appropriate iPhone Water Damage Repair service for your generation of iPhone.

You may be saying, well, if I put the iPhone in a bag of silica, and it sucked up all the water, what is the point of sending it in for water damage repair?

When water gets inside a smartphone, even the tiniest amount, corrosion builds up…and quick. We have seen phones with the insides covered in corrosion in less than 24 hours after water exposure.

Our process cleans any kind of corrosion or oils that may have accumulated on the circuit board after it was introduced to water. Without a proper check and cleaning, your phone may work after drying out, but you may lose features one by one in the following days or weeks. Corrosion grows a bit like rust, where it spreads sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly.

If you bring a water damaged phone into Apple, they will gladly exchange it for you…for a steep price. With the exchange, you’ll lose all of your data, and the replacement they give you is a refurbished model, not a new one.

Don’t go through that hassle. Follow the steps and then send it off to iFixYouri as soon as possible. Remember…

  • Turn it OFF
  • Place it in a bag of silica gel or rice
  • Select your generation of iPhone on this page: iPhone Water Damage Repair
  • We’ll fix it, test it, and ship it right back!

We are able to revive iPhones from water damage with a high success rate. Included in the water damage repair process is the replacement of any parts that may have been damaged in the spill.

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iPhone Water Damage Repair – Can it REALLY be fixed?

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The answer is yes. 90% of the time we are able to fix iPhone water damage, restoring them back to original state, with all data still instact.

You may think to yourself, “Really? I don’t believe it. I thought that if electronics get wet, they’re done for.”

In some cases yes, this is true. In a lot of cases, it is not so true. Here’s what happens:

You pull your iPhone out of your pocket and when you pull it out, it slips out of your hand, landing in a toilet, puddle, port-o-potty, something that’s wet.

You take it, blow dry it, pray it is gonna work, and voila after a couple days of drying, it’s working, somewhat, but a lot of features are acting all weird. As days go on, it kinda still works and then starts to die on you. You’ve become another victim of iPhone water damage.

iPhone water damage repair can happen after splashing liquid on the device or dropping the phone in water, like an ocean or pool.Photo by Nigel Tadyanehondo on Unsplash

Where water and electronics meet, there will be corrosion. The corrosion starts to build up components like the logic board, dock connector, home button, camera, battery, etc. When this corrosion takes over, the iPhone water damage slowly progresses until the corrosion is so bad, there is no hope. But wait…at last there is!

With our proven process, time and time again, we can remove all the corrosion, and leave it running like new(90% of the time). That’s a pretty good percentage seeing as how the nearly all of the 10% of failures are when capacitors and resistors actually short out on the board itself. This is generally caused when the user tries to turn it on when it’s still wet, charge when wet, or the onset of corrosion is so extreme and power to the iPhone causes a short somewhere.

Okay…well now you may be wondering, “well what am I supposed to do then if I get it wet?”

  1. Place the entire iPhone in a bag of unsealed DRY rice. Why rice? Rice acts like a sponge and helps soak up any kind of liquid that may be on the inside of the iPhone.
  2. Let it sit in the bag a few days.
  3. Get our iPhone Water Damage repair for your specific generation./li>
  4. Ship us your phone with the included shipping label. Easy!

The sooner we get it, the better chance you have of having a fully restored iPhone with NO corrosion. Our process takes 24-72 hours depending on the severity.

If you have any questions or want more information, let us know!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

For more information about iPhone repair check out our homepage at www.iFixyouri.com.

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