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.
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.
Several products and techniques are marketed for this. Judged by whether they physically move liquid out of a speaker cavity, most do not.
For a complete overview, see our full guide: Eject water from a phone speaker.
The only method that reaches inside the cavity without disassembly. Low-frequency displacement breaks the surface tension film and pumps droplets out. Free, fast, no risk at moderate volume. Whether it comes as a web page, an app or a built-in feature makes no difference to the result — the same waveform reaches the same driver.
Genuinely the second most useful method and the least marketed, because nobody can sell it. Grille down, in moving air, for several hours. A desk fan on low outperforms every commercial drying product in this list.
Silica gel is a real desiccant and better than rice, but it acts on the air immediately surrounding the device rather than drawing liquid from a cavity. Harmless, mildly useful for the enclosed-container stage of drying, not a speaker solution.
A weak desiccant that open air outperforms, plus it sheds starch dust into ports and grilles. It persists as advice because phones often recover on their own and the rice receives credit for elapsed time.
Household vacuums cannot generate meaningful suction across an aperture that small. Not harmful, not useful.
Heat warps thin diaphragms and adhesives and converts liquid into vapour that penetrates further before condensing somewhere new. Reliably makes things worse.
Drives liquid and debris past the dust mesh into the cavity and can push the diaphragm past its normal travel. Across the grille at a shallow angle is acceptable; into it is not.
Cleaning putty, for the debris component that often accompanies water. Beyond that, the effective tools here cost nothing.
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.
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.
Our tool is great for water and dust, but it cannot fix physically blown speakers or electrical damage.
Learn when it won't workStep-by-step help for wet, muffled, crackling or quiet phone speakers.