Water eject — sound to push water out of your phone speaker
Water eject
Turn the volume up, point the speaker down and press Start. The tone is generated in this page — nothing to install.
Volume up to max, case off, speaker facing down.
Using headphones? Turn the volume down before you start.
Done. Play a song or a voice note to check the sound. If it is still muffled, run it once or twice more with the speaker facing down, then leave the phone to dry in open air.
Still muffled tomorrow? The SoundTowel app, planned for iOS and Android, turns this into a 7-day plan: a new cleaning session each day and a push reminder when it is ready. It has not launched yet.
Tone finished.
Water eject is a low tone played through your phone’s speaker so the vibrating membrane pushes droplets out of the grille. This tool plays 165 Hz — steady, then pulsing, then steady — for 30 seconds to 2 minutes, in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android.
Use it when sound turns muffled after rain, a shower or a swim. The sections below cover iPhone and Android, what the tone does and doesn’t do, and the drying steps phone makers recommend alongside it.
Water eject on iPhone
Water eject on iPhone works from this page in Safari, with no shortcut to install. iOS has no Water Eject setting of its own: the feature Apple builds is on Apple Watch, and the iPhone “Water Eject” people share is a third-party shortcut for the Shortcuts app.
Step 1
Turn off Silent mode
Use the Ring/Silent switch or the Action button, then press the volume-up button until the level is at the top.
Step 2
Take the case off
Apple suggests removing cases and screen films when speaker sound is poor. They can cover part of the grille.
Step 3
Point the bottom speaker down
Hold iPhone so the grille next to the charging port faces the floor.
Step 4
Press Start and wait
The tone runs 1 minute by default. Keep Safari open on this page until the ring completes.
Step 5
Check, then repeat
Play a voice note. If it still sounds muffled, run the tone two or three more times.
Apple’s own advice for a muffled iPhone speaker is simple: place iPhone speaker-side down on a lint-free cloth and see if water drips out. Apple adds that water in the port might degrade speaker performance until it evaporates, so a tone that clears part of it and time that dries the rest work together.
Water eject on Android
Water eject on Android works the same way in Chrome, Samsung Internet or Firefox. Turn media volume to maximum, remove the case, hold the phone with the bottom speaker facing down and press Start.
Android browsers also support vibration, so the tool offers a “Vibrate the phone too” option there. On Samsung phones, a wet charging port can block charging with a moisture alert — that is a separate problem the tone doesn’t touch, covered in water in the charging port.
Sound to get water out of your phone
Sound gets water out of a phone speaker because a speaker is a small air pump. At a low frequency the membrane travels furthest on each cycle, pushing droplets that sit in the grille outward. Pulses add repeated starts and stops.
Apple relies on the same idea in its own hardware. On Apple Watch, turning off Water Lock plays sound to clear the speaker.
“A series of tones plays to clear any water that remains in the speaker.” — Apple Support, on Apple Watch Water Lock
Here is exactly what this tool plays, so you can compare it with any other water eject sound.
| Part | Sound | Share of the session | At 1 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steady 165 Hz sine tone | First third | 0:00–0:20 |
| 2 | 165 Hz in pulses: 0.6 s on, 0.3 s off | Second third | 0:20–0:40 |
| 3 | Steady 165 Hz sine tone | Last third | 0:40–1:00 |
Need a different frequency? The Custom tone mode plays anything from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. For grit rather than water, the online speaker cleaner adds a low-frequency dust mode.
How to get water out of a phone speaker
Getting water out of a phone speaker takes three things in order: gravity, sound and time. The tone moves what sits in the grille; drying takes care of what is further in.
Gravity first
Tap the phone gently against your hand with the port facing down, as Apple suggests, before you play any tone.
Then the tone
Run 1 minute of water eject with the grille down. Two or three rounds are normal for a soaked speaker.
Then airflow
Leave the phone in a dry place with some airflow. Apple says a fan blowing cool air may help.
Phone makers are clear about what not to do. Apple says not to dry an iPhone with an external heat source or compressed air, not to push a cotton swab or paper towel into the port, and not to put it in a bag of rice, because small particles can damage it. Samsung says water evaporates from the charging port in about 1 to 2 hours on its water-resistant phones.
For the rest of a wet phone — charging port, camera and the first minutes after a drop — the guide on drying a wet phone goes step by step. AirPods are different hardware with their own instructions: see water in AirPods. If the top earpiece sounds muffled on calls, the call speaker cleaner explains what a browser can and can’t reach, and the left and right speaker test shows which end of the phone is quiet.
This page sends no audio anywhere — see how the tool handles privacy — and about SoundTowel explains how the guides are sourced.