A video that can remove water from a wet phone just by playing it. A new way to maintain your phone.

【Can a YouTube video that says, “Just play to remove water from a wet phone” really recover a wet phone?】
https://gigazine.net/news/20240828-testing-youtube-video-to-get-water-out/

・A movie that plays “The Sound of Water Removing from a Smartphone” is available on YouTube.

・The movie is titled “The Sound of Water Removing from a Phone’s Speaker (Guaranteed),” and features a fantastical animation of swirling stained glass and a deep, low buzzing sound that plays for about two minutes.

・The Apple Watch actually uses this principle, too, with a system that vibrates the inside of the speaker to expel water from inside.

・In fact, when we examined the effectiveness of this movie (soaking each smartphone for about 1 minute, draining the water lightly, and then playing the movie), only the Pixel 7 Pro had almost no water left, the iPhone 13 and Pixel 3 had a little water left, and the Nokia 7.1 was “more or less ruined”. more or less ruined”.

The above is a quote from the article

Even with waterproof phones, water and watery places are still a risk. New ways to maintain your phone

I think most smartphones these days are waterproof,

Even so, water is still not good for a smartphone. It is a precision instrument.

Having said that, I sometimes use my phone in the bath.

I am sure there are many people who do the same.

But I recommend not to use the bathroom if at all possible.

Because,

waterproof of a waterproof phone is only said for fresh water at room temperature. (Waterproofing tests on smartphones have been done with fresh water at room temperature.)

So,

High-temperature water and steam are not expected for a waterproof phone,

Salt water in the ocean and chlorinated water in swimming pools are of course not expected.

If you have too much faith in your waterproof phone and continue to use your phone in the places mentioned above, it may suddenly become unusable one day.

It occurred to me that the “water removal video” described in the above article could be used not only for emergencies such as dropping the phone in the water, but also for maintenance of the phone used in the bath.

This video has already been viewed over 45 million times, so it seems that many people are taking advantage of it.

You may want to know about it as one tool.

I will try to utilize it for my bath phone next time. (I can’t stop using my bath phone ^^;)

See you then

Frequency-wise, it’s about 164 Hz? I think you can play the video loud enough to drain the water, but it seems hard to listen to that sound, so I would recommend maintenance away from the phone. ^^