Some people never learn...

[RgrF]

...like me.
Got sick (flu like-puked) on a bulging iPhone a few years ago. After a 3 month stay came home to find it dead, sad because it had some stuff (photo/vidios) I'd liked to have saved.

So I then went to my very first iPad (beat up to the point the cracked screen was useless for almost anything but reading a book) so when the libraries shut down I persuaded my wife to read using the iPad - something she resisted for years.

She's now on my Pad and so I go dig out that old iPad fire it up and amazingly it still works. Cheepo that I am I now go back to reading (we read more than watch) off that relic. I only forgot that that relic had photos and stuff from long ago, stuff I never transported.

Sure as sh it I tipped a water glass and now it's dead.

No one to blame but self but now I have both an old dead iPhone and iPad that contain stuff I'd much like to have not lost.

Any solutions before we junk these would be much appreciated.

[jdc]

Bummer. Any chance you can try the old rice trick?

Thankfully, we have the $1 iCloud backup, nothng will ever get lost.

[Ombligo]

But now you have an excuse for that new iPhone 12 and iPad Pro.

Sneaky trick you did there

[NewtonMP2100]

jdc wrote:
nothing will ever get lost.

.....except one's lunch........

[Sarcany]

jdc wrote:
Bummer. Any chance you can try the old rice trick?

Not only a myth, but the rice-dust gets in the ports and clogs them up.

With a computer, I might suggest opening it up to swab out the water and then leave it open to dry out for a week.

iPads can't safely be opened. Leave it in a safe dry spot where you're not tempted to touch it for at least a couple of weeks and then see if it will power-on.

[pipiens]

You can try to use a desiccant.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dessicant+packets&crid=O8QIRZ6GEOWL&sprefix=dess%2Caps%2C190&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_4

[d4]

You are kidding right? You're on this tech themed Mac Forum almost every day. Reading postings about people with Mac issues, crashes, backups, purchases, etc., and you don't have... *SIGH* ok, I'm not gonna pile on, it already sucks enough. Everyone! Pay the freakin $1/mo for iCloud backup. It's 100 pennies. It's the best "Tip and Deal™" on the entire internet.

[RgrF]

d4 wrote:
You are kidding right? You're on this tech themed Mac Forum almost every day. Reading postings about people with Mac issues, crashes, backups, purchases, etc., and you don't have... *SIGH* ok, I'm not gonna pile on, it already sucks enough. Everyone! Pay the freakin $1/mo for iCloud backup. It's 100 pennies. It's the best "Tip and Deal™" on the entire internet.

I'm backed up with current stuff - these were old units that died before I got to them.

[NewtonMP2100]

....tough.....crowd.....

[RgrF]

...yeah really!