To ask how you clean your phone (post Covid)

[Givemeaisland]

Do you just wipe it or spray a bit of Dettol on it or something else?

Didn't mean to enable voting

I use anti bac wipes.

I don’t

I use multi purpose anti bacterial spray and a micro fibre cloth at home.
When out I resort to wipes

@PablosHoney

Why? Do you not worry about it having covid on it or anything?

I put alcohol hand gel on mine and it made the £30 screen protector peel off. So now I don’t clean it at all. It isn’t designed to be cleaned regularly.

Usually an extra little splodge of hand gel rubbed over with a napkin. It has a screen protector on and is pretty old anyway so not concerned about damage or anything! If it’s good enough for hands it’s good enough for a non-porous surface :)

I dont very often to be honest. If I think of it I use an anti-bac wipe now and again. Probably a but grim...
If you're worried about Covid then the latest research shows it doesnt really live on surfaces if that helps? I've never really worried about that because no one other than me touches my phone but if yours is passed around or whatever it's more important to wash your own hands regularly than clean surfaces

Do you not worry about it having covid on it or anything?
Yes but what can I do about it? It’s not able to be cleaned. I just wash my hands before touching it.

@Ranunculi

Why don't you clean it now? Do you not worry about covid on it?

I never have. But I like living life on the edge.

Anti bac wipe or spray of anti bac on kitchen roll and a quick wipe - nowhere near regularly though 😬

Nope, no one else uses it and I wash my hands/sanitise regularly so no.

Ranunculi Why don't you clean it now?
Because I can’t afford to keep wasting £30 on replacement screen protectors.

Intend to focus on washing my hands and not touching my face.

Either anti bacwipe
Or in Tesco car park, after I've returned the trolley I tend to sploosh the gel around - hands, vape, phone, handbag straps and bottom (handbag, not my own bottom 😮).

@Boom45

So it doesn't live on surfaces?? Only I touch my phone too.

I tend. Damn auto correct

I do what they showed on BBC News at the height of lockdown - damp kitchen towel (paper) and antibac handsoap, and then clean the soap off with more damp kitchen towel. My phone case is plastic so that gets washed under running water with soap.

I don't particularly worry about getting covid from my phone actually because I think the chance of there being enough virus particles on it is extremely small - even if I had touched something else with virus particles and then touched my phone. I just like to clean it every few days because I know I touch it a lot in general.

Window cleaner is good for cleaning the screen. Comes up nice and shiny. No idea if it gets rid of Covid but can't say having Covid on my phone is a concern!

I lick it clean

Nope, I also don’t clean it. There’s no need.

I spray a bit of dettol on kitchen roll and wipe mine when I get in from work (in a hospital so plenty of germs about). I used to clean it weekly or so, now it's daily.

Heard alcohol gel/wipes can wreck the screen.

@ameliajoan

Why is their no need?

Well it can live on surfaces. but unless the surfaces were coughed all over by some one with COVID, then you touch or lick that surface quickly after, then touch your eye/ mouth /nose it’s unlikely that you’ll pick up enough viral load to make you sick.