HOW TO SAVE A WET PHONE

1. This anxiety when you see your iPhone where it should not be: in the water! This is indeed problematic, but this is not an unusual situation. If you want to know how to do best after your iPhone is dropped into water, scroll down the page and read tips that can save him.
   There is a procedure to be applied when your iPhone falls into the water. To prevent the water completely permeates the iPhone, we must act quickly. This guide provides a set of processes that could restore your iPhone. But beware, we are not responsible if the procedure below does not work on your iPhone. Remember that there is no magic solution. Depending on the severity of the problem, we will have to admit that your iPhone is unrecoverable.
   1-Get out your iPhone and water immediately turn it off by pressing 5 seconds on the "Sleep / Wake" at the top, then doing drag the cursor to the right. Obviously, if your iPhone is already off will not turn on.

It is very important to turn off the iPhone, because this can really damage the iPhone, are short-circuit produced by electricity and water.

1. Dry the iPhone with a towel or piece of cloth. Do not use a hair dryer, oven or microwave (excess heat can damage the iPhone).
2. Take a plastic bag, preferably one that closes tightly. Fill it with uncooked rice and / or with packets of silica gel. Place the iPhone into the plastic bag and make sure the unit is completely covered with rice. If you do not have rice or silica freezes, you can place the iPhone in a dry and well ventilated cold air (eg a room used for drying clothes).
3. If you do not have a resealable plastic bag, you can use a regular plastic bag. It will just take care to remove air and close it properly. If you really have nothing of all this, use a bowl.
4. The iPhone should remain in the rice at least 24 hours. However, it is best to leave it 48 hours.After that time, the rice well absorbed iPhone water.
5. Before turning on your iPhone, follow the steps below:

THE IPHONE AND WATER DAMAGE

All iPhones have a liquid contact indicators (LCI) which is activated on contact with water. If the iPhone (its circuits) has been damaged by water, the indicator will light bright red.

When you exit the iPhone rice, be sure to check that the indicator is actually red. If you are lucky and there is no water damage, you should see the usual color of the indicator in white or silver.

To find where LCI is located on your iPhone, see the table below: 

Remember: it is always safer to bring your iPhone to the Apple Store nearest before attempting to light the appliance.

RESTORE THE IPHONE DATA AFTER IT FELL IN THE WATER

In some cases, the iPhone can escape water damage and remain usable. If you have been quick to leave the water, turn it off and dry it by following the steps above, you might not have to restore the device.

If the iPhone is back to default settings and you do not find any of your data, there are two ways to recover through restoration. You can do it from a previous backup created with iTunes or iCloud.

RESTORE THE IPHONE WITH ITUNES

If you sync the iPhone with iTunes recently before dropping it in the water, you can restore it via iTunes. The tutorial below shows how to restore a backup contacts made in iTunes. The same measures also allow to restore other data on your iPhone such as settings, messages, calendars and photos from the film.

Note that iTunes restores only the data that has been synchronized with your iPhone.

RESTORE THE IPHONE WITH ICLOUD

If your iPhone is running iOS 5 or above and if you have activated the iCloud backup before the incident, you can restore a backup made by iCloud. iCloud iTunes restores the same data - contacts, notes, messages, calendars and photos from the film.

If your iPhone will reboot after falling into the water, you can configure it as "new" or restore it from a backup after turning it on.

Press "Restore from iCloud Backup" and select the last entry dated iCloud backup.