Guides
Longer-form answers on water damage, speaker cleaning and what is actually going on inside your phone. Written to be useful rather than reassuring — where something does not work, we say so.
How to get water out of a phone speaker
Every method that works, every method that does not, and the order to try them in.
The first hour after your phone gets wet
What to do immediately, what to avoid, and the mistakes that turn a recoverable phone into a dead one.
The iPhone Water Eject shortcut, explained
How the Shortcuts version works, how to build one, and when a web page is the better option.
How to clean a speaker grille safely
The tools that are safe to use, the ones that permanently destroy speakers, and the right technique.
Is sound-based speaker cleaning safe?
An honest look at the risks — to your speaker, and to your hearing.
Which one you need
The tool on the home page handles the common case: water or dust that is sitting in the grille and needs shaking loose. These guides are for everything around that — deciding whether sound is even the right approach, what to do in the minutes after a phone goes in the water, and which of the widely repeated fixes are actively harmful.
If your phone is wet right now, start with the first hour — the order you do things in matters more than any single step. If the speaker is simply muffled and the phone never got wet, the grille cleaning guide is the one to read, because dry lint responds to different handling than water. If you want to know whether any of this can damage the speaker before you try it, start there.