So your phone took a dip in a pool, ocean, or worse, the toilet? Well, don’t fret! Water plus smartphones used to equal instant death for many devices. Fortunately, that’s no longer always the case.

We’re sure many of you have heard a piece of tech advice, and that is, if your phone gets wet and you want to dry it out, stick it in a bowl of rice. There is some logic to that. This stems from using ...