Stop. If three cycles produce no improvement at all, the cause is not blockage. Check the symptoms on our guide to when a sound tool will not help, and have the device inspected rather than continuing to run cycles.
Tap the button below. It plays a low‑frequency sound that vibrates the speaker and pushes trapped water and dust out of the grille. Turn your volume up to about 80%.
💡 Point the speaker downward so gravity helps the water escape. Repeat 2–3 times if needed.
Select your issue and run the appropriate fix cycle to restore your speaker audio in about a minute.
Dry the outside of your phone first.
Let gravity help pull the water out.
Ensure audio plays through the phone's internal speakers.
Never use earbuds. Turn volume up, but 100% isn't required.
Our tool is designed to target the three most common speaker issues using precise acoustic frequencies. Whether your phone took a dive or just sounds muffled from pocket lint, here is how we fix it.
Clear trapped water from your phone in about 60 seconds. The steady 165 Hz vibration physically pushes trapped liquid out of the speaker mesh.
A steady 165 Hz tone — the sweet spot for maximum diaphragm travel — physically pushes trapped water out.
Use our deep clean mode to act as a dust remover. Sweeping low frequencies shake loose stubborn dirt, sand, and lint.
Sweeps across low frequencies (120–400 Hz) to shake loose lint, dust and stubborn droplets the single tone misses.
Act as a volume booster for muffled speakers. Clear out blockages to restore heavy sound, loud bass, and crisp audio.
A clean 440 Hz reference tone so you can hear whether your speaker sounds clear again after cleaning.
Perfectly safe. These are ordinary frequencies your speaker already plays during music. The tool never exceeds normal listening levels — it just concentrates the energy at the frequency that moves water best.
Phones differ from laptops and portable speakers in ways that change both what goes wrong and how to fix it.
For a complete overview, see our full guide: Diagnosing what is actually wrong.
A phone speaker is a few millimetres across. It cannot produce useful output much below 100 Hz regardless of what you play through it, which is why the working band for cleaning sits between roughly 120 and 400 Hz. Files advertised at very low frequencies often produce nothing audible — not because the file is wrong but because the driver cannot reproduce it.
The bottom loudspeaker handles media; the earpiece handles calls and usually doubles as the second stereo channel. They clog differently — the bottom collects dry pocket lint, the earpiece collects facial oil. Different blockages need different methods.
Phones re-route audio to paired Bluetooth devices automatically and silently. Earbuds in a bag, a car system in the driveway, a smartwatch — any of them takes the output. Turn Bluetooth off entirely rather than disconnecting, and confirm you can hear the tone from the device itself.
Media, ringer, calls and alarms all have independent levels. Pressing volume up outside an app usually adjusts the ringer. Start the tone playing, then adjust.
Many phones apply dynamic compression, bass enhancement or loudness normalisation to media output, which can degrade the clean sine wave a cycle depends on. Set any equaliser or sound-enhancement mode to flat before running cycles.
Case off, grille brushed, Bluetooth off, volume 70–80 percent, grille facing straight down at about 45 degrees, 30–60 second cycles with a wipe between each. Then no charging for 24 to 48 hours.
Stop. If three cycles produce no improvement at all, the cause is not blockage. Check the symptoms on our guide to when a sound tool will not help, and have the device inspected rather than continuing to run cycles.
No. The frequencies used sit inside the range your speaker already reproduces whenever you play music, and the tool runs at moderate volume rather than maximum. The one genuine caution is earbuds: never run ejection tones into in-ear devices while you are wearing them.
Thirty to sixty seconds per cycle, repeated two or three times with short pauses. Running it continuously for many minutes adds nothing once the accessible liquid is out, and only heats the voice coil.
No. Around 70 to 80 percent is the practical sweet spot. Maximum volume on a restricted diaphragm produces distortion rather than more displacement, and adds avoidable stress to the driver.
No. Rice is a poor desiccant — open moving air dries a device faster — and its starch dust migrates into the charging port, microphone holes and speaker grille, which can create a second problem on top of the first.
Our tool is great for water and dust, but it cannot fix physically blown speakers or electrical damage.
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