It’s a problem that many of us have faced over the course of our lifetimes – what do you do when you drop your phone in water?

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Usually it’s the toilet or the bath or maybe the pool, but the result is always the same – your phone is completely fucked and your only hope is to get it into a bowl of rice ASAP. It’ll take a couple of days but if you’re quick enough then your phone should usually be saved.

For a long time that was the only way you even had a chance of salvaging your phone, but it turns out that there’s actually a method that may be even better than the trusty rice in a bowl. And the answer is using a cat litter.

Apparently if you shake all the excess water off your phone and then air dry it and place it in a zip lock bag of cat litter for a couple of days then it should come back as good as new. Not sure how you decide which is better out of rice or cat litter, but I suppose it’s good to know that if you can’t get one then you’ve always got the option of the other as well.

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Although cat litter is probably more difficult to buy than rice, so not really sure how useful that is to be honest. At least we know now though.

I wonder if the world’s most expensive mobile phone is waterproof?