Apple’s restricted guarantee doesn’t cowl injury brought on by liquids, even for water resistant merchandise just like the iPhone, Apple Watch, and a few AirPods fashions. Due to this, Apple has totally different strategies to detect if the system has been uncovered to liquids. And on the newest Macs, Apple now has a approach of figuring out if liquids have been detected within the USB-C ports.

Macs can now detect liquids in USB-C ports

As famous by 9to5Mac, macOS Sonoma 14.1 features a new system daemon named “liquiddetectiond,” which, because the identify suggests, can determine when the pc has been uncovered to liquids. Extra particularly, this daemon runs within the background to gather liquid detection evaluation from every USB-C port on the Mac.

This daemon is described as a “Liquid Detection and Corrosion Mitigation Daemon.” iPhones and iPads have an identical daemon, which is used to alert customers when liquid is detected within the connector in order that they instantly unplug the charging cable to forestall injury.

On the Mac, nevertheless, the code means that the daemon is just used for “analytics” and isn’t related to end-user options. Whereas Apple might ultimately implement an alert just like the one which already exists in iOS, it appears extra seemingly that the information collected by this daemon might be used for technicians to find out whether or not a Mac is eligible totally free restore.

After all, that’s only one extra approach for Apple to know if the Mac has been uncovered to liquids. As Apple’s web site describes, “Mac laptop computer computer systems and a few Apple wired and wi-fi keyboards have Liquid Contact Indicators (LCI) to assist decide if these merchandise have been uncovered to liquid.”

These indicators are strategically positioned contained in the gadgets and alter shade after they come into contact with liquids. Placing a digital liquid detector on USB-C ports is simply one other approach to make sure that technicians are proper about claiming {that a} Mac has been uncovered to liquids.

It’s unclear at this level whether or not the brand new daemon works with any Macs operating the newest model of macOS or solely with M3 Macs attributable to some additional {hardware} requirement.

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