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Why Is my phones Screen Not Functioning After I dropped It In a Pool?

Back In July 2021 I was Having A fourth of july Party like every year. My Kids had told me If I didn't Jump into the pool they would take my phone (that we all thought was inside) and delete twitter. So I Jumped In and released that I had my iPhone in my swimsuit pocket. I Got out and tried to turn it back on but I wouldn't work. Don't know what to do now tried putting it in rice and drying it with a hair dryer and all the stuff. I have to use my my iPad mini Now to continue txting and and playing FIFA

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Cannon Reagan consider this a supplement to the excellent answer by @hellomacos . First off skip the rice. It is absolutely useless. It will not help you fix your phone. All it does it provides a false sense of security. It will not clean your phone, it will not prevent corrosion.

For now you want to stop continuing to try to charge, sync or otherwise use your phone. This potentially can make a bad situation worse.

The very first step I would take is to disassemble your phone. Use iPhone XR Repair - iFixit to disassemble your phone. Take a careful and close look at all components and connectors. Truly assess the damage. Look for major corrosion, evaluate the pins in the connectors etc,. Take a look at all connectors as well as cable ends. After that I would suggest that you clean it a couple of times in sterile water, not drinking water. Use a soft brush and clean it very, very thoroughly with the sterile water. Once you got the gross contamination cleaned, use 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and clean your parts some more. You must remove the EMI shields since they create a "hiding spot" for corrosion etc. For a proper cleaning, use this guide. It was written for an Apple iPhone 3G but it is still pertinent to your phone as well. I can not stress the importance of a good cleaning enough, so do it over and over while replacing the alcohol after each cleaning. Do not use compressed air for the cleaning since that can drive liquid as well as corrosion particles into areas that will cause trouble later on. Do not use drinking water, if you need to use water, use sterile water. Also, you do not need to leave it to dry after the cleaning. Isopropyl alcohol in the higher concentration will evaporate quickly and dissipate the water. The importance here is the cleaning. The best cleaning would be by ultrasonic cleaner but if not available, this will at least help. After that you must replace the battery. This is a must and not optional. It will fail if you do not take care of it now. Once all of this is done, reassemble and re-evaluate. Keep in mind that water damage is the hardest to troubleshoot and to repair. If you run into things you need some clarification with, post some images of what you find with your QUESTION. Hope this helps, good luck.

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Sorry to here about your iPhone Let’s see what we can do!

If it happened in 2021 things are probably going to be a bit harder,the first thing you should do is take it out of the rice as it doesn’t help at all and open the phone while following a guide like this one!

iPhone XR Logic Board Replacement

Second you should remove the logicboard and dowse all of it in isopropyl alcohol in the highest percentage you can get!And clean the connectors for the screen.

I recommend taking it to a repair shop if you don’t have that much experience with really small electronics as water damage can get very hard very quickly

If you want to continue look for black grey and blue/green stuff(comes in all different colours) on the board and gently clean it with the alcohol.

Lastly please don’t try and turn it on as it will greatly increase the speed of the damage occurring!

Hopefully this answers your question

If you need any help please ask

Thanks:-)

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