How to Fix Water Damaged iPhone

1. How to Fix Water Damaged iPhone Have you ever dropped your iPhone in the bath, the sea or even worse, the toilet? Have you ever got drenched with the sudden rainfall? Did you go swimming but forgetting putting your iPhone 6 in the pocket aside? Getting your iPhone wet is always unexpected but common. Even iPhone 7/7 Plus is water resistant with IP67 rating, but that doesn't mean the device will be totally fine after being submerged in water. Anyway, if your iPhone 7/7 Plus/6s/6/5s/5 has been damaged by water or any other liquid, you may want to find out a good way to repair it as fast as possible. What's more, misfortune never comes alone. You are likely to lose the data in your iPhone after the damage, too. Therefore, you should first dry out the iPhone and see if it could work, if not, try to restore your important data from the water-damaged iPhone. Part 1: How to Dry out a Water-Damaged iPhone After that, you need to know how to fix the water damaged iPhone/iPad/iPod before recovering the lost data, iPhone got wet should be differentiated into three cases and handled accordingly: Case Case 1 1 My My iPhone iPhone dropped dropped in in clear clear water water when when it it was was plugged plugged in in Step 1: Get the iPhone out of the water as soon as possible. Step 2: Unplug it right away. Step 3: Dab off as much of the water as possible from the outside of the phone. Step 4: Put your iPhone under the lamp or spotlight to heat gently and slowly. Do not use a hair dryer to dry out a phone, or it will destroy your iPhone forever. Step 5: Wait. Continue waiting. Then wait some more. This process needs more than 6 hours. Step 6: Test your iPhone when you wait at least 6 hours. Case Case 2 2 My My iPhone iPhone dropped dropped in in noncorrosive noncorrosive liquid liquid when when it it was was turned turned off off Step 1: Wipe the excess and exterior liquid off everything you can reach.

2. Step 2: Check if there is any stain on the screen. If there is no stain, you can follow the steps in Case 1 from step 4. If there is stains here which is not easy cleaned up by yourselves, please bring your iPhone to the maintenance department or remove the internal components to clean up by yourselves. Case Case 3 3 My My iPhone iPhone dropped dropped in in liquids liquids when when it it was was switched switched on on Step 1: Unplug it at once. Step 2: If your iPhone dropped in corrosive liquid, clean up your iPhone with clean water to dilute the corrosive liquid as soon as possible. Step 3: Disassemble the phone gently. Step 4: Clean your iPhone with alcohol again. Step 5: Assemble it carefully or ask the Apple maintenance department for help. Actually, in this case, leave your iPhone to the professionals is wiser. Hopefully these steps can help you out. If you are so lucky that your iPhone is revived from water damaged, please check if there is any data missing. If you are not lucky enough, then why not recover data from water damaged iPhone? Part 2: How to Recover Data from Water Damaged iPhone via iTunes FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery can help you recover data from water-damaged iPhone, including devices running on iOS 10. In details, it can restore Camera Roll Photos, Camera Roll Videos, Photo Stream, Contacts, Messages, Call history, Calendar, Notes, Reminder, and even Safari bookmarks. Step 1: Choose the "Recover from iTunes Backup File" option Launch iPhone Data Recovery program and choose the "Recover from iTunes Backup File" option on the left sidebar. All iTunes backup files will be found and displayed on your computer automatically. Step 2: Scanning and previewing Select a backup file that you want to extract and click "Start Scan". And then, preview the listed categories one by one, and select those data you want back at last.

3. Step 3: Retrieve lost data Choose any item you want and get your lost data to your computer by clicking the button of "Recover". Part 3: How to Recover Data from Water Damaged iPhone from iCloud Step 1: Sign in your iCloud account Select "Recover from iCloud Backup File" and sign in your iCloud account with Apple ID and password as required.

4. Step 2: Download iCloud backup You can see all backup files for your iOS devices in the backup after entering into iCloud account. Choose the one you want and click to download it to your computer. Step 3: Preview and restore The software will scan the downloaded data automatically. Please click the category you want to get back to preview the lost data. And then, proceed to "Recover" button to restore iPhone from iCloud and save those recovered data on your computer.

5. Attention: Life is full of all kind of accidents. To prepare for the rainy day, you are better to backup your iPhone regularly. There are serveral ways to make a copy of your iPhone data: using iCloud, iTunes or iPhone Data Recovery. Which way should we choose? The table below tells you everything. Backup Tools iPhone Data Recovery iCloud iTunes Backup location Computer 5GB iCloud Computer Select data to backup Yes Yes No Preview backup files Yes No No Data loss if restore backup No Yes Yes FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery – a practical recovery tool which enables you to recover lost data from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch easily, quickly and surely. With it, it is no longer a headache to recover any lost iPhone data, even the device is damaged.