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 range where diaphragm travel is greatest.
Water, dust and hardware faults each produce a recognisable sound. Learning to tell them apart takes about a minute and determines whether cleaning is the right response at all.
For a complete overview, see the full water ejection walkthrough.
Muffled but complete, with a distinctly "underwater" or hollow quality. Volume drops and high frequencies dull, but every part of the audio is still present and nothing rattles. The onset is sudden and tied to a specific event. Some people notice a faint crackling or bubbling at low volume as the diaphragm moves against liquid — that particular sound is close to diagnostic for water.
Dust produces a similar muffling but the onset is gradual, developing over weeks or months rather than instantly. It also tends to be more purely a volume and treble loss without the hollow character that liquid adds. Sudden versus gradual is the most reliable distinction.
Music is a poor diagnostic. A bass-heavy track masks exactly the mid and high frequency dullness you are trying to detect, and a familiar track biases what you think you hear. A podcast or voice memo is far more revealing — consonants are the giveaway. If s and t sounds are soft or smeared, something is still in the mesh.
A call in handset mode uses the earpiece; a music file on speaker uses the main driver. They fail independently, and a blockage in one has no effect on the other. If both sound equally dull, suspect a setting rather than liquid.
Clarity returning first, then volume. Bass is last to come back because it requires the largest diaphragm travel. If bass returns, the cause was blockage. If bass stays absent while mids are clean, suspect the driver suspension.
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.
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.
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.