Tips on Cleaning your Gadgets

Now that we’re all isolated at home, our actual physical connections to the world have shrunk. If you’re like most people, that means your phone is – and probably always was – your primary lifeline to the outside world.

While you’re madly cleaning and disinfecting your home, give a thought to cleaning that lifeline, the one thing you check day and night.

Every time you touch your phone, the phone picks up bacteria from your hands. A 2012 study by the University of Arizona found that cellphones carry 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat – because people clean toilet seats but they seldom clean their phones. Same goes for their laptops or desktops.

Grab a Q-Tip

We got this tip last year from Chandra Steele, senior features writer at PCMag “Grab some microfiber cloths, Q-tips, distilled water, isopropyl alcohol and dish soap to get your gadgets gleaming — after you unplug or turn off, of course. To scrub a phone or tablet, you have to take extra care, since it’s likely that it has a fingerprint-resistant coating that could come off. Even a glass screen protector is likely to be treated with the same sort of substance. The gentlest way to clean the item is to take distilled water and a barely textured microfiber cloth and wipe it down. Use cotton swabs to clean around crevices like the edges of the screen and buttons. Make sure to remove any case you might have on your phone or tablet and also clean that with some water and a microfiber cloth. Make sure it’s thoroughly dry before you put it back on.”

Go hands-free

If you can handle a possible loss of privacy, this is the time to really invest in voice-activated (Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.) smart lights, speakers and appliances … aka things you’ll no longer need to physically touch to turn on and off. And maybe buy a robovac that can be set on a schedule and will automatically return to its hub to recharge when it’s finished (laziness can be sanitary).

Disinfecting Your Smartphone

Most modern smartphones are water-resistant, but it’s not the best idea to hold them under a running tap. For example, all iPhones since the iPhone 7 have been “water-resistant,” but Apple still only recommends that you clean the iPhone with a damp cloth rather than submerging it completely. Water-resistance is there just in case. Many factors could jeopardize your device’s water-resistance, including damage from dropping it.

The CDC has recommendations for people with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and their household members to prevent the spread of the disease further. While most people reading this don’t fall under this category, the advice provides sound examples that should help stop the spread of disease, including:

For your smartphone, you should use 70% rubbing alcohol or alcohol-based disinfectant spray to wipe down the back and sides of your device. Don’t use bleach. Take a soft lint-free cloth and dip it into alcohol or spray it well with cleaning spray, then wipe down your device and let it dry. You can also use a disinfecting wipe that comes pre – soaked in a cleaning solution—as Apple says, a “70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipe or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes.”

When it comes to your screen, Apple’s advice is to use a 70% rubbing alcohol solution to wipe down the screen while taking care to reach the corners. Buffing the display with a dry, lint-free cloth to remove excess cleaning solution may help minimize the adverse effects on the oleophobic coating.

Glass screen protectors also use an oleophobic coating. Since they can be replaced relatively cheaply and easily, you can probably be a little more carefree with your disinfectant.

Keep Your Phone Clean

The WHO hasn’t yet announced that sanitizing your smartphone is vital to contain the spread of an outbreak like SARS-CoV-2, but it’s common knowledge that our mobile devices are Petri dishes of bacteria and other invisible threats.

The University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences concluded in 2012 that smartphones carry ten times more bacteria than “most toilet seats.” This is due to how frequently we touch our devices, and how little time we spend actually cleaning them.

Taking basic precautions like washing your hands and avoiding touching your face will help reduce your chance of getting ill from a wide range of diseases. Avoiding touching your smartphone with dirty hands will help too. Let’s not forget that taking a phone call usually requires that you make contact between your touchscreen and your face.

You should avoid texting on the toilet, too. Since the recent coronavirus outbreak (and many other nasties) may be spread by fecal transmission, it’s a good idea to avoid using your phone in public restrooms.

How to clean your smartphone –

Turn off your mobile before cleaning.

Use the following steps for this gadget cleaning-

Things you require-

• Soft microfiber cloth
• Cotton swabs
• Distilled water and vinegar
• Dampen the cloth with water.

Use the following steps for this gadget cleaning –

• Gently wipe it in up and down direction.
• Then use dry cloth to remove the moisture.
• Brush over dirty crevices of your phone and remove the dust.
• Mix 50%water and 50% alcohol.
• Damp the cloth again in it.
• Then gently wipe your mobile with in in circular motion.
• Then use dry cloth to remove the moisture.

Keep your mobile covers clean by following methods :-

• Use wet face wipes to clean your mobile cases everyday.
• For once a week, use perfumes and cotton to clean it.
• Clean it properly by circular motion.
• If the mobile case is severely dirty, use a dilute detergent solution( a pinch of detergent in water).
• Don’t use it regularly, but once a while if the mobile cover is too dirty.
• For cleaning your leather cases , use contact lens liquid solution.
• To clean non-leather mobile cases, use glass cleaning liquid solution.

Gadget Cleaning

Clean your Laptop and PC-

• Use nylon tooth brush to clean all the crevices of the system.
• Clean keyboards, mouse, screens,etc with the help of vinegar and water solution( 50% vinegar+50% water) with the help of a microfiber cloth.
• Then wipe with a dry cloth.
• Clean your systems once a week to avoid dust accumulation.

Hopefully you have found these gadget cleaning ways easy and would try it!!