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I know it can be tempting to try to speed the drying process along, but please don’t try any of the following: Most of this advice does nothing to actually fix your device and in many cases, it causes more damage! There is a ton of bad advice online for liquid damaged iPhones. What to avoid doing when a liquid has been detected in a lighting connector Keep in mind that you’ll need an iPhone 8 or later! The models before this do not offer wireless charging. If you don’t have a cordless charger, Apple sells a cordless charger called the MagSafe charger, but you can also find a ton of after-market options on Amazon. The next day my phone was fully dry, and the lightning charger worked again. So I continued using my phone and when it was time to charge it later that day, I used my cordless charger. When I went to charge it with the lighting cable I got the Liquid Detected in Lightning Connector warning message. I was giving my son a bath and my iPhone fell in the tub, completely submerged for about 10 seconds. So not only can you use your phone, but you can charge it too while you wait for the phone to fully dry out. If you have a cordless charger, you can use it while you wait for the lightning port to dry! The good news is the advice I give above assumes you only have a lightning cable charger. I’ve heard of many iPhone users who had to wait up to 24 hours before their iPhone fully dried and this alert went away.

Keep repeating this process until the alert goes away. You should wait at least another 30 min before trying to charge it again. If you get the “Liquid Detected in Lightning Connector” alert again, there may be liquid residue beneath the Lightning pins. wait a minimum of 30 minutes before trying to charge your device again.place your iPhone in an open, ventilated, and dry space.hold your iPhone with the Lightning port facing down, then firmly tap your phone with the palm of your hand to help ease any liquid out of the port.unplug any cables or accessories connected to your iPhone.I would follow these steps to ensure there is no lasting damage and get your phone working again: That shouldn’t be an issue and won’t cause any additional damage. If you want, you can even keep using your phone as it is! Just hit “Dismiss”. What to do if a liquid has been detected in a lighting connectorįirst off, I highly suggest you do not use the “Emergency Override” option, and instead allow your phone adequate time to dry. A current could make the metal corrode and the connector strip stop working. That’s why Apple automatically disables the lighting connector when your phone detects liquid in it. The same goes for the metal pins inside your lighting port.īut without an electrical current passing through these metal pins, the liquid shouldn’t cause any lasting damage (unless it leaves residue on the pins). This means that the metal components inside your phone can still corrode and cease working properly if they come into contact with liquid of any kind. Water-resistant iPhones aren’t waterproof. But being water-resistant doesn’t mean your phone can’t suffer from liquid damage.