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iPhone water eject

The water eject sound, as a button. Press Start, hold the wet speaker down, and 45 seconds of 165 Hz pushes the water out — the trick the Apple Watch does after a swim, without a Shortcut.

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Hold the phone speaker-down. Volume to maximum. Silent switch off.

  1. 1. Volume to max. iPhone: flip the silent switch to ring, or the tone is muted.
  2. 2. Speaker facing down. Gravity does half the work. Hold it over a towel.
  3. 3. Run 45 s, repeat. Works best while the speaker is still wet.

Where iPhone water eject came from

The Apple Watch has had it since Series 2: after a swim you turn the Digital Crown, the watch plays a rising tone, and you can watch droplets leave the speaker grille. iPhone never got the button. What it got instead was a Siri Shortcut, shared on Reddit and RoutineHub, that played a similar tone through the phone speaker — and it worked well enough that “water eject” became the name for the whole idea.

The Shortcut has two problems. The iCloud links that host it expire, so the copy you saved last year is often gone when you need it. And iOS blocks untrusted shortcuts by default, which sends people into Settings at the exact moment their speaker is full of water. This page removes both: the tone is generated by the browser, right here, every time.

How to use the water eject sound

  1. Headphones out, AirPods away. If anything is connected, the tone plays there instead of through the phone.
  2. Silent switch to ring, volume to maximum. While the switch shows orange, Safari’s audio is muted and the run does nothing.
  3. Wet speaker facing the floor, over a towel. The bottom speaker is beside the charging port; the earpiece is the slot above the screen.
  4. Press Start. 45 seconds. Watch the grille — the droplets are small but you will often see them.
  5. Test with a song, and run again if it still sounds muffled.

Why it is a tone and not a file

Every water eject Shortcut and YouTube video plays a compressed audio file, and compression does odd things to a pure low tone — it smears the frequency and adds harmonics the author did not intend. This page uses the browser’s Web Audio oscillator instead: 165 Hz is the fundamental, exactly, every run, with harmonics added on purpose so the small phone speaker can actually push air with it. The 165 Hz page goes into why that frequency and not another.

Water only. The tone moves the speaker diaphragm; it does nothing for the charging port, and it does not pull compacted lint out of the grille. Loose dust sometimes shakes free, but for dirt the answer is a brush — how to clean iPhone speakers.

iPhone water eject — questions people ask

What is iPhone water eject?
A low tone played through the iPhone speaker to push trapped water out of the grille. The name comes from the Apple Watch feature (Water Lock ejects water after a swim) and from the Siri Shortcut that copied it for iPhone. This page is the same idea as a website: it plays the tone from Safari, so there is no Shortcut to install and no link to expire.
Is this the same as the Water Eject Shortcut?
Same job, different plumbing. The Shortcut plays a bundled audio file and needs to be installed, trusted and re-found every time the iCloud link dies. This page generates the tone live in the browser with a 165 Hz fundamental. If the Shortcut worked for you before, this works the same way; if it stopped working, this is the replacement.
Which speaker does the water eject sound play through?
Both. The bottom speaker beside the port and the earpiece at the top play at the same time. Whichever one got wet, point it at the floor: phone upright for the bottom speaker, screen-down with the top edge angled down for the earpiece. The top speaker cleaner page explains the earpiece hold.
How many times should I run the water eject?
Once, then test with a song. Most speakers clear in one to three runs. After three, stop and let the phone air-dry for half an hour before trying again — a dry speaker gains nothing from more tone, and minutes of full-volume tone on a dry diaphragm is the one way to do harm.
Does water eject work on the charging port?
No. The port has no speaker to vibrate, so no sound reaches the water in it. For a “liquid detected” alert the answer is to unplug, tap the phone port-down, leave it in moving air and charge wirelessly meanwhile — the drying guide covers it.
Does iPhone water eject work on Android?
Yes. A phone speaker is a phone speaker; Samsung, Pixel and OnePlus all clear the same way. Some Android phones have a built-in speaker cleaner in settings that does the same thing. The speaker cleaner sound page has the Android notes, including where the media volume hides.