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iPhone 6s Surprisingly Water Resistant, but Not Waterproof
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These stupid videos should be relegated to Uranus.Oh rats...
All along I was under the impression that they were focused on Pluto
I suppose it's understandable because "waterproof" and "water resistant" can have different meanings to different people, which is why ratings are so important. But the bickering is tiresome. I haven't read the whole thread so I don't know if anyone has tried to explain water pressure and duration when evaluating the effects of water on a device.
But I will add one thing to you comment. When you drop your phone into water there is always the wacky factor of if water is going to be forced into an opening or not. Like that every one-hundredth time you jump into a pool and water goes up your nose like a public neti pot. For those phones that were gently set into bowls of water, you will probably see air bubbles in the ports blocking the inflow of water. Start swishing the phone around in the water and you might lose that protection and water enter the phone. The gentle placement also applies water around the phone relatively evenly so water is attempting to enter all openings at the same time and the air trapped inside has nowhere to go. Conversely, lower your phone halfway into water and you may find water enters due to the air escaping from unsubmerged openings.
But blah blah blah. I'll save someone the trouble and tell myself, "Cool story, bro."
If I ever dropped my phone into the toilet and it wasn't water damaged, I might just chuck it into a pool and make a claim to my Applecare+. Poopy phone would always be in the back of my mind when using it. Permanently tainted—burn it with fire!Note that you should get the phone out of the toilet, then flush. Not the other way round
And no matter how tempting it might be, don't clean the phone under running hot water ;-)
You've clearly met my toddler, who managed to destroy two iPhone 5Cs in a three week period. The phone insurance company was very skeptical when I had to make a second claim before the ink was even dry on the first one.
Between signing up for the iPhone Upgrade Program with free Applecare+ and the 6s being extremely water resistant, I think I'm covered with my toddler. I will say, however, that she is usually pretty good about leaving our devices alone. Sometimes she will pick it up, bring it to me and loudly proclaim "Daddy's Apple phone!" She has a few names for it. Sometimes she calls it an "iPaaad!" where she draws out the "aah" sound. So cute.
Water pressure at 2 inches is 14.7 psi, while at 4 feet it is 16.5 psi. That may not sound like a lot of difference, but it is huge. The reason snorkels are only 8 inches long is that at 30 inches, the water pressure is strong enough to prevent a person from inflating their lungs.
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Actually, distilled water is a very poor conductor...it is the impurities in the water that give it conductivity.
The thing these tests fail to take into account is long term damage. Just from my family alone, I've seen phones initially survive submersion unscathed, only to fail a week or a month later.
The one time I dropped an iPhone in a full sink, it worked properly afterwards, but I immediately took it to an Apple Store and paid the water damage replacement fee. I need to be able to trust my phone.
The one time I dropped an iPhone in a full sink, it worked properly afterwards, but I immediately took it to an Apple Store and paid the water damage replacement fee. I need to be able to trust my phone.
Except that I have a visceral abhorrence of people who take good expensive equipment and destroy it for a cheap stunt. No matter how much they may make off of it. The Will It Blend stunts are of the same ilk.
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Yes, thank you! We all understand the iPhone 6S is not "waterproof", but what these people did was test how much water it could incidentally withstand, and I find it pretty useful to know as well.
What I'm wondering is, what ever happened to all those hydrophobic coatings that everyone was posting about last year? If I remember correctly, those didn't require that the device be sealed up, but instead kept water from penetrating the delicate electrical components...
I get the feeling that Apple is testing waterproof parts in the iPhone 6s. Sure, not all the parts may not be waterproof in the 6S but this would essentially be the largest self-host of a BETA product. If the waterproofing fails, Apple never promised it so no harm done.
They can verify how well their new waterproof parts in the 6s work by reviewing Genius bar repair data. If less phones come in with water damage, then maybe we'll see them claim water resistant/proof with the 7.
Dropping my phones in water or liquid has never been an issue for me. I think this highlights that new smartphone features have pretty much gone away.
They can verify how well their new waterproof parts in the 6s work by reviewing Genius bar repair data. If less phones come in with water damage, then maybe we'll see them claim water resistant/proof with the 7.
Dropping my phones in water or liquid has never been an issue for me. I think this highlights that new smartphone features have pretty much gone away.
No - the headline says "water resistant" - and quite clearly indicates the phone is not waterproof.
Who gives a crap? In the last hour, many iPhones were probably dropped, thrown, immersed and destroyed in one way or another. And we didn't learn a thing from any of that.
At least from this, there's some (anecdotal) information about how well the new phone design withstands water penetration. Nobody's saying this is a certification of anything, but it's good to know, and interesting.
You just described very well my failed experiment of running a garden hose down to the bottom of a swimming pool. Unless someone has watched Bugs Bunny they may not know there's an air pump to get air under pressure down to those tethered deep sea divers *and* allow them to take a breath.
Pure water is a actually very POOR conductor of electricity. It's the tiny amount of dissolved stuff in water that allows it to conduct electricity. When water comes out of your faucet (or a mountain stream or what're) it actually has a lot of stuff dissolved in it. You need to do careful procedures to water in order to get water that doesn't have much other stuff dissolved in it.
Once liquid gets inside your phone the silent death clock has begun. Just because it's still working now doesn't mean you didn't break it.
The 6s is either water resistant or it isn't. And I'm fairly certain it isn't.
The 6s is either water resistant or it isn't. And I'm fairly certain it isn't.
I actually thought the phone on the right was another iPhone for a few seconds. They did a bit more than "copying the rectangle".