Water Eject

This water eject tool plays the same 165 Hz tone as the Water Eject shortcut for iPhone, right in your browser, so there is nothing to install. Turn the volume up, point the speaker down and the tone makes the speaker cone move back and forth hard enough to shake water out of the grille. You can also choose a low sweep, short pulses or a wide sweep, set the run to 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes, and play a check sound afterwards. The water eject sound works on iPhone, Samsung, Pixel and other Android phones, tablets and laptops.

How to eject water from your phone speaker

1. Take the phone out of its case and wipe the outside dry.
2. Turn the volume all the way up. On iPhone, turn off Silent mode if you hear nothing.
3. Hold the phone with the speaker grille facing the floor, so gravity helps.
4. Press Start. Leave the phone still for the whole run; small drops often appear on the grille.
5. When the run ends, press Play a check sound. If it still sounds muffled, run Pulse or Low sweep.
6. After two or three runs, stop and let the phone dry in open air for a few hours.

How the water eject sound works

A phone speaker is a small cone behind a fine mesh. When water fills the holes in the mesh, surface tension holds it there, and the trapped water blocks and weighs down the sound. A low tone makes the cone travel further than speech or music does, so each push forces air through the mesh and breaks the water's grip. Pointing the grille down lets the freed drops fall away.

The pitch matters less than the movement. 165 Hz is low enough to make a phone speaker move a lot while still being loud. The Low sweep glides between 120 and 330 Hz, so it tries a range of low pitches instead of one, in case another suits your speaker better. Pulse starts and stops the tone, and the sudden starts can knock loose a drop that a steady tone only wobbles.

What the readouts mean

The sound is still muffled afterwards

Work through these causes, most likely first:

1. Water is still in the grille. Run the tool again with Pulse, then leave the phone grille down for an hour.
2. Water got further in. Sound only clears the grille. Water behind it dries on its own; give it up to a day in a dry place with some airflow.
3. Wet dust or lint. Water turns pocket lint into a paste that sound cannot move. Once dry, brush the grille gently with a dry, soft toothbrush. The speaker cleaner page has the safe cleaning steps.
4. Salt, sugar or pool water. These leave residue after drying that can keep the sound dull and corrode parts. A repair shop can clean it properly.
5. The speaker is damaged. If it buzzes or crackles once it is dry, the cone or coil may be harmed. Run the phone speaker test to check each speaker.

Water eject on iPhone

iPhone has no built in water eject feature. People add one with a shortcut that plays a 165 Hz tone; this page plays the same tone without installing anything. If your iPhone shows a liquid detection alert when you plug in a cable, the water is in the charging port, not the speaker. Apple's advice for that alert is to tap the iPhone gently against your hand with the connector facing down, leave it in a dry area with some airflow, and wait at least 30 minutes before trying to charge again. Drying can take up to 24 hours. Apple also says not to dry it with an external heat source or compressed air, not to push a cotton swab or paper towel into the port, and not to put the phone in a bag of rice. See Apple's liquid detection guide for details.

Water eject on Android and Samsung

Android phones also have no built in water eject, so the tool works the same way on a Samsung Galaxy, Pixel or any other phone. Samsung phones show a moisture warning when the charging port is wet and refuse to charge by cable until it dries; if you see that, follow the steps for a phone not charging and let the port dry before plugging in. You can also turn on Vibrate as well in the tool on Android to shake the phone gently while the tone plays.

Apple Watch: use Water Lock

Apple Watch has its own water eject built in. Open Control Center (press the side button on watchOS 10 and later, or swipe up from the watch face on older versions) and tap Water Lock, the water drop. To turn it off, press and hold the Digital Crown until the screen says Unlocked; on watchOS 8 or earlier you turn the crown instead. The watch then plays a series of tones to push water out of its speaker. Water Lock also turns on by itself when you start a water workout such as swimming.

After a spill or a drop in water

• Take the phone out of the water quickly and wipe it dry. Do not charge it while it is wet.
• If it was salt water, pool water or a sugary drink, the residue matters more than the water. Samsung's Galaxy manuals advise rinsing in clean fresh water and drying; with an iPhone, follow Apple's drying steps and contact Apple if problems persist.
• Water resistance ratings such as IP67 and IP68 come from lab tests in still fresh water with new seals. Seals age, so treat any phone as less protected than its rating.
• Liquid damage is not covered by Apple's standard warranty, and most makers say the same. Back up the phone as soon as it works.

What a water eject sound cannot do

It cannot dry the inside of the phone, reach water in the microphone or earpiece if those are not playing, undo corrosion or fix a speaker that was damaged by the water. A phone that restarts, shows display stripes or gets warm after getting wet needs a repair shop, not more sound. To check the speaker afterwards, play anything you know well, or use the sound test with left and right checks.

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