Thanks for all your encouragement. My phone is working fine. I have made several calls since the incident happened, and have also used a bluetooth speaker and headset. Glad to know my iPhone is tougher then I first thought.
On 5/1/20, Mike B. <mb69ma...@fastmail.com> wrote: > That is so totally cool! > > Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. > *My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee > > it cleans the toilet. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sieghard Weitzel > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 9:44 PM > Subject: RE: just had a very scary iPhone experience > > > It really isn't a big deal especially with anything like the iPhone 8 which > > Josh has and newer. The iPhone 8 has a rating of IP67 which means you can > actually submerse it under 3 feet of water for 30 minutes and it should not > > hurt the phone. Of course while Apple tests this, they wouldn't recommend > you routinely do this, but just in case if it did fall into a full bath tub > > and you took it out nothing bad would happen. The latest iPhones are > actually IP68 which means they can stand submersion under 2 meters (a bit > over 6 and a half feet) for I think 30 minutes or 1 hour. > Some of you may remember the story of my 6S Plus which I got after it was > released in September 2016. Then at Christmas I visited my family in > northern British Columbia, went for a walk when it was -30 degrees out and > promptly lost my phone. Despite hours of search along the approx. three > quarter long driveway (my family has a working ranch in a very remote area) > > nobody found the phone. About 4 month later in mid April when the snow was > gone my brother had another look and easily found it only feet away from > where they all looked before, it was lying in the mud, by then it had gotten > > warmer, during the winter it got warmer, it got cold again, it snowed and it > > rained and all in all you'd think the phone would be dead. I told my brother > > to stick it in a bag of rice and to mail it to me, by the time he went to > town and I received about a week passed and as soon as I got it I simply > plugged it in. At first nothing at all happened and I got busy at my store, > > then a couple of hours later I came back in the office and not expecting > anything I pushed the side button, Voiceover came on loud and clear asking > for my PIN, as soon as I put it in the phone went crazy with dozens of > notifications, messages and emails coming in. Since by then I had gotten a > new phone this meant the SIM card was deactivated, yet after all this time > in the harsh elements the phone connected to my store's WiFi and at first I > > thought all was working, in fact, I could make Facetime calls and all seemed > > normal. This lasted until I told one of my sighted employees with great > astonishment that my phone had been found and was still working, but then he > > said that the screen was black. At first I thought screen curtain was on, > but it was not and nothing we did made any difference. In other words, the > phone was working normally except that the screen was obviously not working > > at all and later when I took it to an Apple store and they ran diagnostics > they also told me the camera seemed to be damaged as well. The long story > ended with me being able to get a replacement iPhone 6S Plus from Apple for > > a relatively small fee under the Apple Care Plus coverage I had purchased > when I bought the phone, but still I thought it was pretty cool it survived > > this long period lying out in the open in harsh weather even though it > didn't survive 100%, but all the touch gestures were working, all the radios > > from WiFi to Bluetooth and so on were working, just the display apparently > was damaged as was the camera. I wouldn't be surprised if all would have > been fine had this been an iPhone 8 or even an XR, XS, 11 or 11 Pro. > > Best regards, > Sieghard > > ----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Maria > > Reyes > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 9:16 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: just had a very scary iPhone experience > > you should be good. I know when I knocked my phone off the counter into the > > sink while the water was running I removed it right away and dried the > screen off. luckily my phone had a screen protector on it. It seems fine > after a few months since that incident happened. I took of the screen > protector and case and shook the phone just to make sure all the water had > come out. the speaker sounded funny for a few hours but they went back to > normal. > > sent from the iPhone 11 Pro > >> On May 1, 2020, at 10:24 PM, Joshua Hendrickson <louv...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I wasn't told how long to wait. I finished my book and I had my >> iPhone resting face down for at least a couple of hours, maybe longer. >> It feels completely dry and isn't sticky at all. >> >>> On 5/1/20, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> wrote: >>> You likely do not have to do anything more if that is all they said to >>> do. >>> You could call them back after it has set there for a good long time; >>> or did he say how long to wait? >>> >>> >>> Richard >>> Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from >>> happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good." >>> >>> Sent with the iPhone SE 2020 >>> www.turner42.com >>> >>> >>> On May 1, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Joshua Hendrickson <louv...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi to all. Today while having a late lunch, I accidentally spilled >>> a cup of soda and some of the soda got on my iPhone. I quickly >>> turned off my iPhone and dried it off with a towel. I turned on my >>> iPhone and it did come back on. The speaker at the top of my iPhone >>> didn't sound all that good. I listened to a bit of my book using my >>> bluetooth headphones and I then called apple. I was told to place my >>> phone face down on a lint free cloth and let any liquid run out of my >>> iPhone. My iPhone doesn't feel sticky at all which I guess is a good >>> thing. I used a clean t-shirt from my drawer and my iPhone is now >>> sitting face down on the t-shirt. What else should I do? 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