Rice, Wet stuff, iPhones + AI

Urban myth debunked, seven years later

This week Apple put the kibosh on a long-standing urban myth: that when an iPhone gets wet, the way to revive it is by sticking the phone in a bowl of dry rice.

Apple, in 2024, decided to finally state the obvious: rice won’t be of any help. In fact, it might hurt the cause by inadvertently putting rice particles into the charger.