I dropped my iPhone 4s in water, what can I do?

When I dropped it, I took it out immediately and dried it before putting it in rice but I didn't learn that I needed to turn it off until I got home about 2 hours later, so it's off now. Before I turned it off though, the sound was working perfectly fine and the screen could still be seen but very very faintly. Does anyone know what has happened or anything I can do to fix it because I believe apple doesn't cover water damage?

Put it in rice.

Remove the battery, put it in rice, leave it sit for about 24 hours. You may still have damage due to keeping it powered while shorted, but if it was just water you should be able to let it dry out and it'll be fine.

Its still alive. The only thing you can do is to wait for the rice to do it's magic.

and with luck it will dry just fine.

if anything is damaged then there's not much you can do.

best of luck

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