Water Damage (I can't afford repairs or a new phone)

I dropped my iPhone 6s in water. Everything is working fine except 2 things. I can't hear, but others can hear me. And I my silencer turns on and off by itself. What do I do?


iPhone 6s, iOS 14

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 1:50 PM

Reply
Question marked as ⚠️ Top-ranking reply

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 2:04 PM

Hopefully you have waited a couple days to let it dry it. If it hasn't been a couple days, turn it off and let it dry out. The problem may fix itself (especially in terms of the silent mode switch glitching).


That being said, the bare-bones cheapest thing you could do would be to use some some cheap $3 earbuds with the $9 Apple Lightning port to 3.5mm adapter: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-mm-headphone-jack-adapter


This wouldn't cure your silent mode to not glitch, but at least you could make phone calls.


I would consider if you might be able to get one of these lightning jack adapters free from a friend. They used to be included standard until the iPhone 7 or 8 I believe, so lots of people have ones laying around in drawers they never used...but even from Apple the are cheap.

4 replies
Sort By: 
Question marked as ⚠️ Top-ranking reply

Oct 30, 2020 2:04 PM in response to eunoiahani

Hopefully you have waited a couple days to let it dry it. If it hasn't been a couple days, turn it off and let it dry out. The problem may fix itself (especially in terms of the silent mode switch glitching).


That being said, the bare-bones cheapest thing you could do would be to use some some cheap $3 earbuds with the $9 Apple Lightning port to 3.5mm adapter: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-mm-headphone-jack-adapter


This wouldn't cure your silent mode to not glitch, but at least you could make phone calls.


I would consider if you might be able to get one of these lightning jack adapters free from a friend. They used to be included standard until the iPhone 7 or 8 I believe, so lots of people have ones laying around in drawers they never used...but even from Apple the are cheap.

Reply

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

Water Damage (I can't afford repairs or a new phone)

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.