One day, something terrible happened — I dropped it My iPhone Into the water. Now, iPhone 14″ IP68 rated, which means the device can dive to depths of up to six meters for up to 30 minutes, so this shouldn’t be a big deal. Well, except that I noticed that the speaker was muffled afterwards. Clear, some water seeped in.
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Now the water won’t damage anything and I can let the iPhone dry. But while I was waiting, the speaker was muffled making making and receiving calls annoying. What I need is a way to push the water out of the speaker.
The Apple Watch there is a feature that use sonic pulses to push water out of the speaker. This is a cool and effective feature that reduces the noise of the Apple Watch’s small speaker by a few beeps.
Unfortunately, there is no such feature built into the iPhone. But I found a way to add it and you can even enable it use Siri.
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Here’s how to add this feature.
We will use a keyboard shortcut called push water to clean the speaker. Go to the page on your iPhone and tap Get Shortcut.
This step will open the Shortcuts app. You can add shortcuts by tapping More shortcuts. The process also tells you that saying “Hey Siri, Water Eject” will trigger the shortcut.
Then tap on the intensity level you want to use — level 1 will run the process once, level 2 will do it twice and level 3, predictably, will run three times. The shortcut will then start playing a tone from the speaker.
Important thing, DO NOT Wear headphones when running this shortcut.
If you have doubts about how powerful this process is, place your face near the speaker socket and you will feel the powerful air vibrations this sound creates.
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And it worked for me, cleaning the water off the speakers restored the sound back to the quality I expected.
