Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave

Nerval's Lobster writes Placing your iPhone in the microwave will destroy the phone, and possibly the microwave. While that might seem obvious to some people, others have fallen for the "Wave" hoax making its way around online. The fake advertisement insists that the new iOS 8 allows users to charge their iPhones by placing them in a "household microwave for a minute and a half." Microwave energy will not charge your smartphone. To the contrary, it will scorch the device and render it inoperable. If you nuke your smartphone and subsequently complain about it online, people will probably make fun of you. (If you want a full list of things not to place in a microwave, no matter how pretty the flames, check this out.)

Comments

If you're not smart enough to realize this is BS..

[SirGeek]

Then you deserve to melt the iPhone, your microwave, home and possibly yourself.

Also...

[gurps_npc]

Don't put an unopened bottle or can of soda in a microwave. Or at least not in a microwave you ever want to use again.

Also, don't put your phone in gas oven, or on a hot griddle.

Similarly, don't touch anything hot enough to cook, and don't stick a knife into your gut.

Re:Also...

[X0563511]

I don't think he was referring to arcing.

Pop quiz: What happens when you boil water inside an sealed container?

Re:Also...

[MaryAnnEvans]

We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.

Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.

Re:Also...

[TWX]

Don't pull on Superman's cape...

Don't spit into the wind...

Don't pull the mask off of the Lone Ranger...

And don't mess around with Jim...

Dare to be stupid

[halivar]

"Put your head in a microwave, and give yourself a tan..."

Re:Dare to be stupid

[Opportunist]

Reference.

You may quietly drop your geek card in the box provided on your way out.

As a wise man once said...

[Black Art]

"Put your head in a microwave and get yourself a tan."

You must dare to be stupid.

Jealous Android users

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't trick me. You're only jealous because your cheap Android doesn't support Wave charging.

Re:Jealous Android users

[jaymz666]

as with most of the features in iOS 8, android had it years ago

Anyone reporting a microwaved iPhone

[jpellino]

gets bumped up to a 23 digit /. UID.

User error

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing people were using 800W microwaves. The Wave Charge feature is only intended for 700w microwaves. Anyone using a powerful microwave should lower the power percentage to compensate. It worked fine on mine, although 1,30 only gave me 72% battery not 100%.

Lifehacks! Infographics!

[mythosaz]

I see someone out there has been browsing 4chan again.

The "microwave your phone to charge it" fake infographic/lifehack has been posted countless times before, but nicely updated for the new iPhone. Plenty of kids have iPhones, and plenty of kids are ignorant.

The "microwave your phone to charge it" infographic has been posted next to such informative graphics as:
- Put a drop of gasoline in the corner of your eye to see rainbow colors.
- Mix ammonia and bleach in a dish, put a penny in the bottom, and blow into a straw to grow crystals.
- Ice cream too hard? Microwave the spoon!

...and countless others, largely centering around poison gas, microwaves, and putting the red-hot spoon in your hand under running water. :/

Back my day we just TP'd houses.

Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B

[Richy_T]

Haha, too true. No way Apple is this advanced. Now, my Samsung, on the other hand, charges a treat. Just don't run it on full power as that overclocks the CPU and causes instability.

Re: Trolls are bad people

[EmperorOfCanada]

What if I dressed up as a doctor, had an air of gravitas, videoed from what looks like an ivy covered university and gave terrible terrible medical advice about Tylenol maximum dosages? Or if I dressed as a garage mechanic used all kinds of mechanical words and gave horrible advice such as sugar in the gas tank eliminates the squeal when you hit the brakes?

We all can't be experts in everything. Some people are really really not technical while not actually being stupid people. This sort of thing might not fool many slashdotters but which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner with a potential investor in our tech startup might confound many of us; and end up costing us a whole lot more than a replacement phone.

Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B

[Smidge204]

To charge your iPhone you need a $150 crisper... ere "Inductive charging" pouch that your phone goes into before putting it into the microwave.

Keeps it clean, you see. Not using the "Inductive charging" pouch may void the warranty.
=Smidge=

Not just the ad - the entire story is BS

[QuasiSteve]

The summary says that 'others' have fallen for it. That makes you think there's got to be at least half a dozen idiots in the world that have tried this, right?

The article (at DICE) says "others have fallen".

Their source is The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

What does that story say?

Pictures have followed the advert that (also fake) showing the outcome of attempting to charge your phone in the microwave:

So there's really only 1 person who said they tried it - and the article itself points out that this, too, is fake (as admitted - he was doing it for the exposure, RTs, etc.)

Maybe there's hope for people yet - though I wouldn't put it past some to actually try it, there's no reason to believe that it has already transpired.

Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B

[Jose]

The first tip-off that this story is BS is that this charging technique doesn't even require an Apple-branded microwave.

There is no way that Apple would introduce a new feature that does not require new Apple hardware.