Dropping Your iPhone into Water: What You Need to Know

If you have an older iPhone that doesn't support the same level of water resistance as newer models, don't go the old rice route. The trick is supposed to work because rice can absorb multitudes of its weight in liquid. However, this never really happens. It can't pull nearly enough moisture to actually make a difference. If you want to try and salvage your phone, take it out of the water immediately and turn it off. Then put it into a sealed bag with desiccant packets - these are those little silica pieces that you find in product boxes designed specifically for drying out wet devices. These are much more effective than rice but also don't eat them.

A Common Myth: Does Apple Slow Down Older Devices to Push New Ones?

There's a lot of misinformation out there about Apple slowing down older devices to push new ones. This is something that I see all the time in the comments of my videos, and most of it stems from a lawsuit in 2017 in which Apple agreed to pay out a total of $13 million to affected users. The truth is a bit more complicated, though. Batteries aren't perfect carriers of energy, and as they're continuously charged and discharged, they take damage and their maximum capacity decreases. This is all normal and expected. However, back when we didn't have a battery health page to look at, there was a lawsuit that led to the creation of these pages and user complaints started popping up saying why is my iPhone dying at 30%? And other unreported battery damage.

The Fix: Apple's Optimized Performance Feature

As a result of this lawsuit, Apple understood how lithium-ion batteries worked and their fix was to look at the health of your battery then silently and automatically slow down your phone when it was under heavy load if it wasn't doing great. This helps reduce any damage from heat and over time reduces the number of charge cycles, all of which is great for keeping those batteries healthy and long-lived. It wasn't planned obsolescence like people like to say - a battery swap would have always restored full performance to the phone. Apple was making a good-faith attempt at increasing the lifespan of phones.

Charging Your Phone Overnight: A Thing of the Past?

There's another myth that's been circulating about charging your phone overnight killing its battery. This wasn't always true what used to happen with electronics is that you'd plug them in, they'd reach 100%, and then continue to be topped off at little bits throughout the night this was unnecessary and put more strain on the battery. To help combat this Apple instituted a feature called optimized charging where the phone will only charge to 80% and then stop just before waking it'll top off your phone to 100% greatly reducing the time it sits at full capacity.

The Latest Development: iPhone 15 Battery Limitation

Recently, Apple added another new feature to help battery life for iPhone 15 users - it can limit your iPhone from going past 80% entirely. This is intended for those who are dead set on protecting their battery health and aren't heavy daily users. The trade-off is that you'll have to charge your iPhone a bit more frequently to keep the battery at or above 80%. Finally, one more battery-related myth will using a bigger charger damage your iPhone's battery. The answer here also lies in Apple software and the USB spec itself when you connect your phone a whole handshake process happens where the port and the cord talk to each other the chord says I can provide up to 100 watts of power while your phone saying that's great I can only take like 35 plugging your iPhone into a higher wattage brick will never damage it, assuming you're using reputable cables and chargers of course.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshould you force quit all your apps well a Mac charger fry your iPhone and should you put your iPhone in a bag of rice if it gets wet you've probably heard all of these before but do you know if they're actually true let's bust some iPhone myths starting off with arguably the most controversial should you be forced quitting your apps this one has been around a while the premise is that you'll extend your battery life and increase performance on your iPhone by Force quitting all of your apps I'm going to throw my wife under the bus a little here faith is constantly force quitting all of her apps she acknowledges that it's probably not the best practice but to her it's habitual she just can't stop doing it like chewing on your nails but the reality is there is no need to force quit apps this has been widely debunked I did an entire video on it here that you can check out but Apple itself has come out telling people not to do this the short version of this is when apps are in the background and or in the suspended State they are not taxing your processor or using your battery life in a meaningful way in fact it actually consumes more battery life to constantly have to reopen apps from a closed State than restoring them from their suspended State it's also even less userfriendly because it increases the loading times only quit apps when they are not performing as expected or or you're very worried about data that they are collecting or sending constantly closing apps is just not going to help your battery life another myth that I continue to see is that if you get your iPhone wet you should immediately put it into a bag of race this is wrong for two reasons the first is that modern iPhones already have a good degree of water resistance built in they're ip68 rated which means they can be submerged in 6 M of water for up to 30 minutes before they take on any damage if you have a newer iPhone and it falls in the pool or dear God the toilet uh it it's going to be just fine though I I would suggest sanitizing it if it was the latter of the two let me know Down Below in the comments if if you've ever dropped your iPhone into a place that you did not want to fish it out from but say you got an older iPhone that doesn't support the same level of water resistance you still shouldn't go the old rice route the trick is supposed to work because rice can absorb multitudes of its weight in liquid you put your water log device in and the rice will pull out this moisture preventing your phone from incurring further damage but that never really happens it can't pull nearly enough moisture to actually make a difference if you really want to get something to try you should take your iPhone or other device and immediately turn it off then put it into a sealed bag with a bunch of desate packets these are those little silica pieces that you find in product boxes that are specifically designed to pull out moisture they are much more effective but also do not eat them just putting that out there here's a Hot Topic does Apple slow down older devices to push new ones is this a shining example of planned obsolescence this is something that I see all the time including in the comments of my videos there's a lot of misinformation out there most of it stems from a lawsuit in 201 20 in which Apple agreed to pay out a total of $13 million to affected users the truth is a bit more complicated though see batteries aren't perfect carriers of energy and as time goes on and they're continuously charged and discharged they take damage and this causes the maximum capacity to decrease this is all normal and expected but back when we didn't have a battery health page to look at in fact this lawsuit is why we eventually got one and as a result a lot of user complaints started popping up saying why is my iPhone dying at 30% and other unreported battery damage consumers just didn't understand how lithium ion batteries worked Apple understood though and their fix was to look at the health of your battery then silently and automatically slow down your phone when it was under heavy load if it wasn't doing great this helps reduce any damage from heat and over a long period of time reduces the number of charge cycles all which is great to keep those batteries healthy and long living it wasn't planned obsolescence like people like to say any battery swap would have always restored full performance to the phone it was Apple making a good faith attempt at increasing the lifespan of the phones it just wasn't transparent enough about how it did it after the lawsuit Apple made what it was doing more clear by putting a toggle in settings that would optimize performance and eventually added the battery health information I mentioned before speaking of batteries will charging your phone overnight kill your iPhone battery this is another one that I hear all the time that wasn't always wrong what used to happen with electronics is that you would plug them in they would reach 100% And they would continuously be topped off at Little Bits throughout the night this was unnecessary and put more strain on the battery to help Apple instituted a feature called optimized charging where the phone will only charge to 80% and then stop just before you wake it'll top off your phone to 100% greatly reducing the time it sits at full capacity it's able to look locally on your phone at the alarm and your usage history to know when you're going to need your phone ready to go the next morning recently Apple added another new feature to help battery life for iPhone 15 users it can limit your iPhone from going past 80% entirely it's intended for those who are dead set on protecting their battery health and aren't heavy daily users the trade-off is you'll have to charge your iPhone a bit more frequently to sum it up this used to be a bigger issue but thanks to advancements in software and charging technology it's basically a moot point finally one more battery related myth will using a bigger charger damage your iPhone's battery the answer here also lies in Apple software and the USB spec itself when you connect your phone a whole handshake process happens where the port and the cord talk to each other the chord says I can provide up to 100 watts of power while your phone saying that's great I can only take like 35 plugging your iPhone into a higher wattage brick will never damage it assuming you're using reputable cables and Chargers of course so which of these myths are you guilty of believing and are there any other myths that you have heard let me know Down Below in the comments and I will answer them in a follow-up video be sure you are subscribe to the Channel with notifications turn on so you don't miss thatshould you force quit all your apps well a Mac charger fry your iPhone and should you put your iPhone in a bag of rice if it gets wet you've probably heard all of these before but do you know if they're actually true let's bust some iPhone myths starting off with arguably the most controversial should you be forced quitting your apps this one has been around a while the premise is that you'll extend your battery life and increase performance on your iPhone by Force quitting all of your apps I'm going to throw my wife under the bus a little here faith is constantly force quitting all of her apps she acknowledges that it's probably not the best practice but to her it's habitual she just can't stop doing it like chewing on your nails but the reality is there is no need to force quit apps this has been widely debunked I did an entire video on it here that you can check out but Apple itself has come out telling people not to do this the short version of this is when apps are in the background and or in the suspended State they are not taxing your processor or using your battery life in a meaningful way in fact it actually consumes more battery life to constantly have to reopen apps from a closed State than restoring them from their suspended State it's also even less userfriendly because it increases the loading times only quit apps when they are not performing as expected or or you're very worried about data that they are collecting or sending constantly closing apps is just not going to help your battery life another myth that I continue to see is that if you get your iPhone wet you should immediately put it into a bag of race this is wrong for two reasons the first is that modern iPhones already have a good degree of water resistance built in they're ip68 rated which means they can be submerged in 6 M of water for up to 30 minutes before they take on any damage if you have a newer iPhone and it falls in the pool or dear God the toilet uh it it's going to be just fine though I I would suggest sanitizing it if it was the latter of the two let me know Down Below in the comments if if you've ever dropped your iPhone into a place that you did not want to fish it out from but say you got an older iPhone that doesn't support the same level of water resistance you still shouldn't go the old rice route the trick is supposed to work because rice can absorb multitudes of its weight in liquid you put your water log device in and the rice will pull out this moisture preventing your phone from incurring further damage but that never really happens it can't pull nearly enough moisture to actually make a difference if you really want to get something to try you should take your iPhone or other device and immediately turn it off then put it into a sealed bag with a bunch of desate packets these are those little silica pieces that you find in product boxes that are specifically designed to pull out moisture they are much more effective but also do not eat them just putting that out there here's a Hot Topic does Apple slow down older devices to push new ones is this a shining example of planned obsolescence this is something that I see all the time including in the comments of my videos there's a lot of misinformation out there most of it stems from a lawsuit in 201 20 in which Apple agreed to pay out a total of $13 million to affected users the truth is a bit more complicated though see batteries aren't perfect carriers of energy and as time goes on and they're continuously charged and discharged they take damage and this causes the maximum capacity to decrease this is all normal and expected but back when we didn't have a battery health page to look at in fact this lawsuit is why we eventually got one and as a result a lot of user complaints started popping up saying why is my iPhone dying at 30% and other unreported battery damage consumers just didn't understand how lithium ion batteries worked Apple understood though and their fix was to look at the health of your battery then silently and automatically slow down your phone when it was under heavy load if it wasn't doing great this helps reduce any damage from heat and over a long period of time reduces the number of charge cycles all which is great to keep those batteries healthy and long living it wasn't planned obsolescence like people like to say any battery swap would have always restored full performance to the phone it was Apple making a good faith attempt at increasing the lifespan of the phones it just wasn't transparent enough about how it did it after the lawsuit Apple made what it was doing more clear by putting a toggle in settings that would optimize performance and eventually added the battery health information I mentioned before speaking of batteries will charging your phone overnight kill your iPhone battery this is another one that I hear all the time that wasn't always wrong what used to happen with electronics is that you would plug them in they would reach 100% And they would continuously be topped off at Little Bits throughout the night this was unnecessary and put more strain on the battery to help Apple instituted a feature called optimized charging where the phone will only charge to 80% and then stop just before you wake it'll top off your phone to 100% greatly reducing the time it sits at full capacity it's able to look locally on your phone at the alarm and your usage history to know when you're going to need your phone ready to go the next morning recently Apple added another new feature to help battery life for iPhone 15 users it can limit your iPhone from going past 80% entirely it's intended for those who are dead set on protecting their battery health and aren't heavy daily users the trade-off is you'll have to charge your iPhone a bit more frequently to sum it up this used to be a bigger issue but thanks to advancements in software and charging technology it's basically a moot point finally one more battery related myth will using a bigger charger damage your iPhone's battery the answer here also lies in Apple software and the USB spec itself when you connect your phone a whole handshake process happens where the port and the cord talk to each other the chord says I can provide up to 100 watts of power while your phone saying that's great I can only take like 35 plugging your iPhone into a higher wattage brick will never damage it assuming you're using reputable cables and Chargers of course so which of these myths are you guilty of believing and are there any other myths that you have heard let me know Down Below in the comments and I will answer them in a follow-up video be sure you are subscribe to the Channel with notifications turn on so you don't miss that\n"