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.
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 how wet your device got, then tap Eject Water to run a customized cleaning cycle.
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 range where diaphragm travel is greatest.
Several methods circulate for this and they are not equivalent. Two work, two do nothing, and two cause damage.
For a complete overview, see the complete guide to water ejection.
A low-frequency tone drives the diaphragm through its full travel, breaking the surface tension holding water as a film and pumping the resulting droplets out through the grille. It is free, takes about a minute, carries no risk at moderate volume, and it is the only method that reaches inside the cavity without opening anything. This is the primary method.
Unglamorous and genuinely effective as a complement. Grille facing down, in a room with air movement, for several hours. A fan on low does more than any gadget. Gravity is doing roughly half the work in acoustic ejection too, which is why orientation matters so much during cycles.
Rice is a weak desiccant — open moving air removes moisture faster. It also sheds starch dust into charging ports, microphone holes and the speaker grille you are trying to clear. It persists as advice because phones often recover anyway, and the rice gets the credit for time passing.
Better than rice as a desiccant, but it only affects air immediately around the device. It does not draw water out of a sealed cavity. Harmless, marginal.
Hairdryers, radiators, ovens. Heat warps thin diaphragms and adhesives, and it converts liquid water into vapour that penetrates further into the chassis before condensing somewhere new. It reliably makes things worse.
Drives water and any debris past the dust mesh into the cavity, and can push the diaphragm beyond its normal travel. If you use compressed air at all, direct it across the grille surface at a shallow angle, never into the opening.
Not charging the device. Voltage across damp connector pins is the most common cause of permanent damage after water exposure, and it is entirely avoidable. Wait 24 to 48 hours, or use wireless charging if your model supports it.
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.
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.
Immediately, for the speaker itself — liquid that leaves early cannot sit and corrode. Dry the exterior first so you are not pulling surface water inward. The waiting rule applies to charging, not to ejection: never plug in a wet device.
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.
Eject the liquid the same way, but treat the device as needing professional attention afterwards. Salt and sugar leave conductive, corrosive residue when they dry, and that residue keeps damaging the board long after the speaker sounds normal.
Our tool is great for water and dust, but it cannot fix physically blown speakers or electrical damage.
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