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the new iPhone 7 is water-resistant but an IP rating of 67 doesn't make it completely waterproof in fact Apple's warranty still won't cover water damage so spills and splashes may be okay but anything passed that will be at your own risk or in this case ours if you've already seen our scratch test you may recognize this guy this is an iPhone 7 that has already been through a little bit of torture but we took it to the Apple store and they confirm it is only cosmetic damage and that it wouldn't affect the water resistance so let's test Apple's actual claim that this thing has an ip67 rating that should mean it can survive immersed in 1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes so we just let this foam sit for about 15 minutes because when we first pulled it out of the water we noticed a little issue with the speakers where they didn't sound very good now we're going to run all of our tests and see how this looks so far you can see the screen looks great doesn't seem to have any issues with touch here we've got a home button it seems to be working the way it should volume up and down on the rockers are ok and if I press this power button that seems to work as well now if we go over to then place a little bit of music we're gonna see how these speakers sound definitely got some volume again it didn't have that the first time but I'm only really hearing audio to the bottom speakers it's supposed to be stereo doesn't seem like it's dried enough to fix whatever the issue is with the top speaker we're going to see if this microphone can do some audio for us so this is your iPhone this is your iPhone on water and that we can definitely see a waveform there indicating we're getting some audio in let's see how it sounds yep we're definitely getting some audio on it sounds a little bit staticky though and I'm still getting nothing from the top speaker so all ready we're running into a little bit of an issue Apple recommends letting it dry out for at least five hours after it's been exposed to this much water but we continued with some real-world testing starting with underwater photography this is your iPhone this is your iPhone on water this is your iPhone this is your iPhone on water up next is the duck test in case your phone happens to fall into the deep end your iPhone 7 on water iPhone 7 on the water we haven't drawn it yet so let's try the swim test so obviously we're not at the pool anymore we're back in the office I'm dry the phone's dry and it's at about 24 hours to recover and while most everything seems to be back to working order the speaker's still aren't in their original condition the volumes nice and loud again but next to a pristine iPhone 7 the audio doesn't sound quite as rich in fact the high frequencies even sound a little bit jagged but considering we tested this phone way beyond the rating I'm actually impressed it's working at all but your phone may not be as lucky and speaker damage is definitely a possibility if you push it beyond the limits like we did today so don't risk it never purposely submerge the iPhone 7 and if you happen to by mistake wait at least 5 hours for it to completely dry before you plug it in again you