{"id":29041,"date":"2022-06-26T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/"},"modified":"2022-06-26T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:48:45","slug":"stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Putting Your Phone in Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlantist Studio\/Shutterstock.comFor nearly as long as smartphones have existed, people have been putting them in rice after dropping them in water. This often-repeated \u201ctrick\u201d to save a water-logged phone has gone too far. Allow us to explain. Where Did It Come From? The rice trick has been around forever and there\u2019s probably a good chance you\u2019ve done it before\u2014I know I have. Where did this common advice originate from? That\u2019s an interesting question. One of the first high-profile examples of the rice \u201ctrick\u201d being recommended dates back to a Lifehacker post from June 2007. The claim was t… Click below to read the full story from How To Geek
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Atlantist Studio\/Shutterstock.comFor nearly as long as smartphones have existed, people have been putting them in rice after dropping them in water. This often-repeated \u201ctrick\u201d to save a water-logged phone has gone too far. Allow us to explain. Where Did It Come From? The rice trick has been around forever and there\u2019s probably a good chance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nStop Putting Your Phone in Rice - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop Putting Your Phone in Rice - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Atlantist Studio\/Shutterstock.comFor nearly as long as smartphones have existed, people have been putting them in rice after dropping them in water. This often-repeated \u201ctrick\u201d to save a water-logged phone has gone too far. Allow us to explain. Where Did It Come From? The rice trick has been around forever and there\u2019s probably a good chance…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-26T14:48:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joe Fedewa\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"0 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Daily Herald\",\"description\":\"Your Super Aggregated News, Blog & Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/\",\"name\":\"Stop Putting Your Phone in Rice - The Daily Herald\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-26T14:48:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-26T14:48:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/ccee6ed790ac2e3bd55ad0843bfdab19\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/stop-putting-your-phone-in-rice\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/ccee6ed790ac2e3bd55ad0843bfdab19\",\"name\":\"Joe Fedewa\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34a4684a675f408651b199ae31925791?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Joe Fedewa\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}