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?

I use a flamethrower to make sure nothing grows on mine. The screen's a bit difficult to read now (rather distorted), but I cope remarkable well.

Anti-bac wipes are best as sanitiser messes up the screen

I don't. I clean my hands with anti bac gel and the only other thing I clean with it is the gear lever and steering wheel with any residue after I've been in a shop . The anti bac on my hands will deal with anything from my phone.

I polish it on whatever is the softest item of clothing I happen to be wearing at the time if the screen is too fingerprint encrusted to read. I don’t often offer it up to Covid sufferers to cough on so I’m fairly sure it isn’t harbouring a huge viral load. The only way it will get the virus on it would either if I had covid myself (in which case it doesn’t really make a difference) or if I had touched something else and transferred the virus on to it from my fingers. In that case the phone would have a much lower amount of virus than my hand. If I then retansferred the virus from my phone to my hand it would be attenuated again, by the time I then transferred it from my hand to my mouth, nose or eye it is just not worth worrying about. Viruses don’t reproduce outside the body, as far as I know, it’s not like bacteria which can multiply on surfaces.

@WanderingMilly

Anti-bac wipes are best as sanitiser messes up the screen

Anti bacterial wipes may not kill covid.

I just polish it occasionally on my t-shirt.

Had to clean mine today as I had to go to the Apple store. They make you clean the phone in advance of your.meeting with the phone doctor. I just used our PC screen wipes to give it a rub down. They are £3 for 100 wipes and we use 1 every 2 weeks or so per laptop screen and then wipe the keyboard with antibacterial wipe. It's like having cataracts removed!

I find shoving it up my bum hole still does the same thing

@Itsabeautifuldayheyhey

The only time I clean my phone is if the screen has smears and I can't read it when the sun shines on it. I just clean it with a microfibre cloth.

If it were to have the Covid-29 virus on it, it will have come from me as I'm the only one that uses my phone. If I already have the virus and then touch my phone with the virus on it, I think it will hardly make a difference.

Shit! There's Covid 29 now???

COVID-29 is what happens when COVID-19 is allowed to live on people's phones.

I hope you lot who aren't bleaching your phones (and your hands and heads because those are the bits that touch the phones most) are proud of yourselves.

A quick spin in the dishwasher on a hot cycle does the trick. It doesn’t work afterwards, mind, but what’s that compared to Covid?

🤮 At all the adults with sticky phones and phones so filthy a thick wedge of grime came off when you clean it and those who don’t wash their shitty hands. Worry about your general hygiene before sandblasting your phone.

@backaftera2yearbreak

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

6 months in and people still don't know the difference between bacteria and viruses.

😂😂😂

It is waterproof so soap and water just like my hands. I do have some alcohol wipes which are excellent for cleaning all sorts of things.

A soapy wipe every so often with kitchen roll.
And I've just bought alcohol wipes.

What I usually do is pop it in a running armband when I'm out so I don't need to touch it anyway.

I've never cleaned my phone. I'm still alive.

A skanky phone with layers of shit all over it is good for your immune system. Helps build it up.

That's what phones are for, surely.

I don't. Just like I don't "boil wash" my towels or throw away my toilet brush every month. It must be an absolute miracle that we are still alive. I can't remember the last time we had a sickness bug. By mumsnet standards we should be dead.

I don’t

I wipe my screen with my glasses cloth if it gets smeary, other than that, nothing. I refuse to have anti-bac stuff in the house, other than some bleach for the loo.

Don’t clean my phone unless I get greasy marks from butter or a sweet on it; haven’t quarantined a piece of mail or washed my shopping either. The likelihood of there being enough virus matter on the stuff that comes through my front door to infect me or my family is so small to start with that it’s a waste of time and energy to even think of doing let alone actually expending the energy on it!!

Isn’t the consensus now that C19 is an airborne virus?
So why would I worry about my phone?

I don’t touch mine at all any more.
If Siri can’t do it for me by voice, I do without.