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The phone connector facing down, then leave it to dry out. Despite the increasing sophistication of smartphones, popular approaches for fixing them if they have been dropped in water remain rather unsophisticated. Apple has taken the opportunity to steer users away from several of them. As well as avoiding bags of rice, it also advises against drying a wet phone using an "external heat source or compressed air", meaning radiators and hairdryers should be avoided. Nor, it suggests, should users try inserting "a foreign object, such as a cotton swab or a paper towel.

Instead, it guides people to leave their phone in a "dry area with some airflow" before reconnecting it to a charger. As the website MacWorld - which first spotted the new support document - notes, the changing design of smartphones may mean all Binance App Users Data such advice will be unnecessary in the future. That is because devices are increasingly able to withstand getting wet. All Apple devices from the iPhone 12 onwards are able to withstand immersion up to a depth of six metres, for up to half an hour. But with cost-of-living pressures driving growth in the global second-hand mobile market, it is likely that many people will need advice on what to do - and what not to - with a soggy smartphone for some time yet.



Lockbit: UK leads disruption of major cyber-criminal gang Published 1 day ago Share A sinister image of a person's hands on a keyboard, with a tablet running some sort of code IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News The UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world's largest criminal ransomware group. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has infiltrated systems belonging to Lockbit and stolen its data. The organisation is believed to be based in Russia and, by volume, be the most prolific ransomware group selling services to other criminals.