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Fun fact: that's not how humidity works. It, in fact, DOES help to get water to evaporate by forcing the local humidity around the phone to stay low. Otherwise you may as well say all the people doing 3D printing that use desiccant to keep water out of their filaments are fools, too.

What it won't do is magically erase any gunk or minerals that were in the water that can short out traces on unprotected PCBs and chips even with the water gone.

So, yes, it is not magic that can fix any phone that saw water. Though it absolutely helps to get the water out of the phone. ... I mean, unless you live in a desert where the humidity should already be sufficiently low most days.

You can make your own 90%+ isopropyl if 70% is all that's available. The stronger stuff is better for many/most home cleaning and science projects.

Put your 70% in a jar, add a shitload of salt, give it a shake. Siphon the alcohol off the top. There's a clear boundary layer so you can see what you're doing. It's pretty cool!

Also, most desiccant beads are reusable. Notice the rare, colored bead mixed in there? Those are indicators of how wet the beads are. You can microwave a bowl and recharge them. I cut the tiny packs open and pour in them in a jar for later. Also, paper coffee filters are great for making your own, larger packs.

In any case, open your electronics and pull the battery ASAP. And no, don't try to put it back together any time soon unless you chase the water out with alcohol. Let that shit sit a day or two. One time I pulled an old school monitor out of the rainy trash. Let it sit 48-hours, worked fine.

I brought a wet AirPod back from the dead last week using rice. It does work, sometimes.

best way I've found to isolate and repair water damage is to open it up and apply some high quality liquid rosin to the water damaged areas. then hit it with hot air (300c should be fine) to get the rosin under all chips and connectors. lastly, do not clean the board, it can push the corrosion around and cause more issues.

I thought the whole purpose of the joke, the punchline, was that leaving your phone in rice would attract an Indian to the food, who would compulsively fix the phone for you. That's what I heard in school with that joke anyway