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  • How water-resistant is the iPhone 8?

  • Apple says it's ip67, but what does that even mean?

  • And, how is it accomplished?

  • And more importantly, can we even trust it?

  • It's time to tear the iPhone 8 completely apart and analyze all the holes and find the

  • weakest link.

  • Phones get wetwhether it's in the pool, the toilet, humidity, or body sweat.

  • Accidents happen all the time, and it's good to be prepared.

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  • I'll talk more about them in a second, but first, let's have a moment of silence for

  • this iPhone.

  • It's not going to survive this test.

  • Alright, that was good.

  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • I'm going to use the gold iPhone that I did my durability test on, as well as the tear

  • down.

  • It's had a good life.

  • Of course, I'll save all the working components and Frankenstein them into other broken phones

  • down the road.

  • Nothing gets wasted here on my channel.

  • The first hole we are analyzing is the biggest, where the screen fits into the frame.

  • There's a ton of black adhesive between the black adhesive between the plastic edge of

  • the screen and the metal edge of the phone.

  • This seems like it will do a pretty good job of keeping water out...as long as there are

  • no bends or dents along the frame that would compromise the seal of the screen.

  • Apple does say on their website that water resistance is not a permanent condition, and

  • water-resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear.

  • So just plan on your water-resistance getting less and less the longer you own your phone.

  • The earpiece on the screen is another ingress point for water that needs to be protected.

  • The earpiece speaker is held tight by 4 screws.

  • After it's lifted off, the speaker itself is internally protected with a tight screen.

  • The rubber seal combined with the 4 tight screws keep water away from the rest of the

  • phone.

  • The next set of holes to check are down at the bottom of the iPhone 8 where the headphone

  • jack used to be.

  • There are 3 giant holes; one for the microphone on the left side, which has a pretty sweet

  • thick screen that's built to let air and sound pass through, but not liquid.

  • This is basically the same set up that we saw on the previous iPhone 7.

  • The loud speaker on the other side of the phone is pretty much the same way.

  • It's got a little niblet down at the bottom, sticking itself into the rubber and the mesh

  • water-resistant screen, relying on the tight seal to keep water out.

  • Before we get to the charging port, the SIM card tray needs to come out.

  • This cute little guy has a rubber ring around the tip.

  • The little gap in the frame is almost nonexistent when the SD card is shut, so it doesn't need

  • a whole lot to keep water out and maintain that ip67 rating.

  • Here are the SIM and SD card trays for both the Galaxy S8 and the LG G6.

  • Both of them have the same style of rubber ring.

  • The camera hole is next.

  • Popping the camera out with it's optical image stabilization shows the inside of the camera

  • unit housing which is lazer welded into the frame of the phone, securely keeping all water

  • on the outside and circuits dry on the inside.

  • With an ip67 water-resistance rating, technically this phone can be under 1 meter of water for

  • less than 30 minutes.

  • Pulling the motherboard out gives us access to the charging port as well as exposes the

  • wireless charging.

  • The charging port, in my opinion, is the weakest link in this whole chain.

  • The only thing from keeping water from entering your phone is this little tiny, white rubber

  • ring around the edge.

  • Literally, this little white rubber band is the only thing between you and total, complete,

  • utter destruction of your phone by water.

  • There is glue along the back side of the port, but that tiny little band is probably what's

  • keeping this iPhone at an ip67 rating instead of an ip68, like the LG V30 or the Galaxy

  • S8.

  • Remember, Apple provides no warrantee against water damage.

  • If your phone gets water on the inside and stops working, that's all on you.

  • So it really is better to be safe than sorry and keep your phone away from water.

  • The last two holes on this phone are the side buttons and the back glass panel.

  • Taking a look at the power button, the electronic portion of the switch is internal, so that's

  • already protected.

  • And the external part that gets pressed, has a little rubber ring around each leg to seal

  • the phone against moisture.

  • If moisture does get inside the phone, it will eventually short circuit and die.

  • Maybe not right away.

  • Some corrosion take time.

  • The motherboard has no protection against water once liquid is inside.

  • There are ways of applying a hydrophobic coating to the circuit boards.

  • This would effectively waterproof the phone, but needs to be done while the phone is being

  • constructed and is very expensive.

  • It's easy to tell that this motherboard has no hydrophobic coating on it because of the

  • way the water droplet clings to the circuits.

  • If it was coated, the water would bead up and run off, not sticking to anything important.

  • The back glass of the iPhone 8 does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping

  • water out, as long as it's not crackedespecially cracked over the top of this wireless charging

  • hole.

  • Now that we have this hole exposed, let's try to make it clear really quick just to

  • see what it would look like through that window.

  • It's pretty much the same concept as the clear Samsung phones...a lot of scraping, but no

  • paint stripper required on this one.

  • If I were to reassemble the phone at this point, the only thing visible would be the

  • back of the battery and and small segment of the motherboard if I left the wireless

  • charging out.

  • Not nearly as cool as some of the Android phones.

  • One of my least favorite parts of the iPhone 8's build is the way Apple attached the back

  • glass.

  • They could have done it in a way that was easy to waterproof, like Samsung, and easy

  • to replace...but, they didn't.

  • They made it permanent and the only way to replace a cracked back panel is to break it

  • out with force, and that's a lose/lose situation for everyone involved.

  • Any accidental cracks in the back glass will compromise your water-resistance and allow

  • water to enter into the phoneespecially above that wireless charging hole.

  • Personally, I would treat this water-resistance as a bonus, but never actually try and test

  • it out.

  • As long as you don't crack the back or front glass though, or dent the sides, then you

  • can feel relatively safe around splashes or light rain.

  • One guy who would have loved a waterproof phone is Captain Ahab.

  • He could have used it while hunting his illusive great white whale.

  • I would say Moby Dick, but then I might lose my YouTube monetization.

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  • classic Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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  • (all lower case).

  • You can listen to the harrowing oceanic tale on your water-resistant iPhone, or even on

  • a regular smartphone or computer for free for 30 days.

  • And if you decide not to continue with your trial after 30 days, you still get to keep

  • the book you downloaded.

  • You literally own the book and you can share that book with someone else.

  • I'll leave a link in the video description so you can find out who won, Ahab, the whale,

  • or the water-resistant iPhone 8.

  • Big thanks to Audible again for making this video possible.

  • I'll be listening to my book as I clean up this mess.

  • If the back glass were replaceable, I could have let the phone live.

  • Moral of the story, don't ever break your back glass, and be careful around water.

  • Thanks for watching.

  • I'll see you around.

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