If you drop your phone in a puddle, pool, sink or toilet, there’s one piece of advice people rush to give: put it in rice. It’s become one of the biggest tech 'life hacks' of the past decade. It’s a fix so common you may not even think to question it.
Some of today’s phones are water-resistant, which helps in many situations. Just wipe it down and keep using it. Job done. But for older models, accidental dunks still happen. So is rice the miracle drying agent we’ve all made it out to be?
