This YouTube video claims to 'save' your wet smartphone

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Nowadays, most smartphones have some water resistance certification to ensure protection from accidental splashes or if you have mistakenly dipped these devices underwater. Most latest iPhones also survive these mishappenings and can be used even after being submerged in water for longer. However, many users claim that their iPhone speakers were damaged because of the prolonged presence of water in the smartphone’s body.

For such occasions, a YouTube video that can play the 'Sound To Remove Water From Phone Speaker’ has become popular amongst most smartphone users in the past few days. The popular American technology website, The Verge, put the claims of this video under test in collaboration with iFixit, and they got some interesting results.

To test the claims of the video, The Verge's David Pierce with iFixit dipped an iPhone 13 in water with UV dye. Subsequently, the submerged iPhone was then kept out of water overnight, with the YouTube video being played. However, the video was only able to remove the water from the speaker area, with the dye still visible on other parts of the iPhone 13, post its teardown.

Apple also offers a similar feature to expel water on its latest Apple Watches. The Verge also reached out to Apple, Google and Samsung. Sadly, they were only referred to a support page that showed what to do if your smartphone gets wet. While testing other smartphones, Pierce also noted that a large amount of water droplets were sprayed from the smartphone in every model, while playing this video.

The Verge also adds that other holes besides the speaker, such as the SIM card slot and USB port cannot be, as they don’t emit air that blows out the residual water while playing this particular sound.