Dropping your iPhone in water can be devastating, and you'll need to know how to fix it. Read up on some tips before you go to an iPhone repair store in order to see if you can't prevent any more damage. Remember that water damage must be addressed as quickly as possible.

Your phone might experience circuitry trouble if it has water damage. You need to take it out of the water as soon as you possibly can. If it stays in the water for a long time, water can get inside the phone and cause even more permanent damage.

You should take out your SIM card and place it on a towel. Put the phone next to it and place both in the sun for a few hours. You can also place the two in front of a fan if there is no sun out. The point of this procedure is to dry out the phone of the moisture as much as possible. Also, don't turn the iPhone until it is dry, or you might damage the phone for good. It's imperative that you know how to dry the iPhone.

You can use this next method to fix a water damaged iPhone. This technique is actually quite popular on various iPhone help sites, so you'll know that it is a reliable method. Place some rice inside an airtight bag, then put your phone inside it. When you go back to it in the morning, you'll see that the rice has sucked the moisture out of the phone and that your phone is completely dry. This sounds like an old wives tale, but it has been tested before and helped many others.

Once you've used the rice method to dry out your phone, you will need to try and get it fixed. You'll be lucky if the phone just turns on again, since water damage usually causes internal circuitry damage. There is a chance that your phone won't work again, since water is very harmful to electronic devices.

If your phone doesn't turn on, visit the repair shop for an expert to take a closer look. You'll need to pay some fees, so it's up to you whether you want to do this or not. If you aren't familiar with circuitry or phone repair, it's not recommended that you open your phone up yourself. This can cause even more issues, and you might kill any chance of an expert being able to restore the phone.

You should try and prevent the problem before it even happens. Make sure to put your iPhone in a protective case if you know that you'll be near a body of water. You'll save the money and time of having to try and fix your water damaged phone this way.

If prevention doesn't apply and you've already dropped your phone in water, you must follow all the tips involved and make sure you don't cause any more damage. However, be prepared for the worst possible situation, and decide whether or not fixing the phone is worth more than buying a completely new one.