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.
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 that moves water best.
The audio for water removal is shaped differently from the audio for dust. Each choice — frequency, waveform, amplitude, duration — has a mechanical reason behind it.
For a complete overview, see our full guide: Removing water and dust together.
Water responds to maximum displacement at a single frequency, because breaking surface tension is a threshold event. You want the largest possible excursion concentrated where the driver produces it best, rather than spread across a range. Dust is the opposite case and wants a sweep. This is the main setting difference between the two.
Not because it is a magic constant — it is not. A driver's resonant frequency depends on diaphragm mass, suspension stiffness and cavity volume, all of which vary by model. What is true is that most small smartphone drivers land somewhere between 120 and 400 Hz, and 165 Hz sits usefully inside that band for the majority. If a fixed tone produces nothing, a sweep across the band is the sensible fallback because it does not assume your device matches the average.
A pure sine moves the diaphragm smoothly through its full travel with no abrupt direction changes. White noise spreads energy across the whole spectrum, most of it above the useful band where it contributes nothing to displacement. For pumping liquid, a clean sine delivers more useful motion per watt.
Drive the speaker past its limit and the waveform peaks flatten into a square. The diaphragm then spends part of each cycle held at maximum extension rather than travelling — the motion becomes a vibration rather than a pump. This is the technical reason 70–80 percent volume genuinely outperforms maximum, and why a distorted cleaning tone is a warning rather than a sign of power.
Thirty to sixty seconds. The threshold event happens in the first twenty; the rest is transport. Beyond a minute there is nothing left to accomplish, and sustained low-frequency output at volume heats the voice coil, raising its resistance and reducing output as it continues.
A clean, steady hum — not a rattle, not a buzz. Fuzziness or distortion at moderate volume is the speaker reporting a mechanical problem, and that is a reason to stop and reassess rather than turn it up.
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.
For maintenance, roughly once a month is plenty. More often if you exercise heavily, work outdoors, or live somewhere humid or dusty. There is no benefit to daily use on a speaker that sounds fine.
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.
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.
Yes. Water is held by surface tension and usually clears in one or two cycles. Dust is wedged mechanically and held by static, so it needs a sweeping range of frequencies and several more passes.
Our tool is great for water and dust, but it cannot fix physically blown speakers or electrical damage.
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