Water damage on iPhone Can it be saved

Buy yourself a black tie and a small wooden box to put the phone in. Carry it to an Apple store with some money (example: in the US $149)  and ask for an out-of-warranty replacement. You fried it. It is no more. It has ceased to be. Bereft of life it lies in peace. It is an ex-iPhone.

try putting it in a bowl of rice for 5 days that might soak up the water if not take it back to the apple store and youll need a new one!

My grandaughter dropped my i phone in a bucket of water.  I saw it happen and grabbed it right away!  I took off the case and put it in a bag of rice right away for 12 hours.  The next day I turned it on and it works like nothing ever happened!!!!  I was shocked!  It's been over a month now and I have had no problems!  Pictures, sound, clarity, everything is just like before!!

You are one of the chosen ones, congratulations!  Your case might have been a distinct help.

I would just like to say that 12 hours in rice is normally nowhere near long enough, and usually totally ineffectual anyway, but is in the majority of cases a good way of delaying the pain of a dead phone for a few days.

Now that i think about it, do you think that it's just the screen itself that's messed up?

Because my phone wasn't completely submerged in water, it was in a steamy bathroom and there was just water markings underneath the screen that made the touchscreen unresponsive for a while.

But then I charged it. Which could have heated and fried the inside entirely.

I really don't know how.

But thank you for the answers!