AirPods Water Damage Repair at SPR.

• 1They went through the washing machine, dropped in water or the toilet, or got sweat-soaked, and now a pod won't charge or won't turn on.
• 2Sound is muffled, crackly, distorted or cuts out on one side after exposure — water in the speaker mesh or a corroded driver.
• 3The mic stopped working on calls, or noise cancellation behaves oddly (AirPods Pro), after getting wet.
• 4The case won't charge the pods, or the case itself won't charge — water reached the case board or the contacts are corroded.
• 5One pod is completely dead while the other still works — common, since water rarely hits both equally.

Board-level clean, typically around 24 hours, and we're honest that AirPods are the hardest Apple device to recover from water. Each pod is a tiny, fully sealed unit with a packed board and a built-in battery, not designed to be opened, so a soaked pod doesn't always come back — but a prompt clean gives the best chance. We dry them properly (never in the case, never on charge while wet), open what can be opened, and ultrasonically clean the case board and contacts to lift corrosion. Where the fault is the charging case or the contacts, that's the more recoverable part. For a dead pod, the honest maths often favours a single-pod or case replacement over a deep repair, because the part economics on a sealed pod rarely make a full repair worthwhile — we tell you that straight after diagnosis rather than charging you for a long-shot fix. Free diagnosis first, then you decide with the real odds and the cheaper alternative in front of you.