There’s nothing worse than having a dirty phone in your hand. You can see dust, dirt building up in the nooks and crannies, ruining the beautiful, clean design that everyone loves. However, when you quickly search for the best solution to quickly clean your phone on the Internet, the information that comes to you is mixed with a lot of specious information. If you follow it all, it may directly kill your beloved phone.
Is your phone dirty? Please avoid using these products and methods for cleaning
At this point, we decided to go straight to a reputable source – Apple, whose recommendations on their website are limited to using microfiber cloths and alcohol wipes. Is this really enough to get rid of all the dirt and stubborn stains? What about the filth that accumulates around the edges of charging ports, speakers, and buttons? Unfortunately there are no official methods for handling these details, but you should avoid some of the recommended methods you often see online.
Compressed air for cleaning
One of the things Apple warns about on its support page for cleaning iPhones is compressed air, but it doesn’t explain why. It turns out that the topic of cleaning with compressed air is a bit complicated to discuss. In some areas of the United States and Canada, it is illegal to use compressed air for cleaning in work environments. Some commercially available canned compressed air products are not pure air at all, but contain dangerous solvents. When these products are abused, they may even spray out liquids that can have catastrophic effects on electronics.
Especially for iPhone, it can even damage the internal components of the phone. If you use compressed air to clean the iPhone speaker and other openings, you risk blowing out internal parts. According to the experience of Reddit users, after using compressed air to clean, all the receiving microphones became silent.
Blew air compressor into microphone and speakers to clean it, I think I broke it. IPHONE 8 PLUS
by in applehelp
It’s generally believed that compressed air cans are suitable for cleaning electronics because it’s not water, but high-pressure air can still move or damage delicate internal components, or even cause more trouble by spraying dust debris deeper inside, so it’s better to listen to Apple and avoid using compressed air cans on your phone.
Toothpicks, needles, and other sharp objects
If you decide to avoid using compressed air, the next thing you think of is using toothpicks, needles, brushes, or even card ejectors to scrape away dirt and clean your phone. Apple doesn’t recommend that you do this, nor does it explain why not to do it. According to some former Apple Store employees on Reddit, users often use card ejection pins, ESD-safe brushes, or micro screwdrivers to clean the charging port in the store. However, the difference between professionals and consumers DIY at home is that professionals already know how to complete the cleaning job without damaging the phone. If you accidentally scratch the wrong place (like the metal contact point inside the charging port), it’s easy to mess up and damage the charging function.
The charging port is small and somewhat deep, so the details of the process can be very delicate, and if Apple were to publicly recommend this method, it would likely result in many failed attempts and unhappy customer comments.
Any cleaning product containing bleach
Apple directly asks users not to use any cleaning products that contain bleach on their iPhones. Bleach is a harsh and dangerous chemical, so it’s easy to imagine why it might not be the best idea. Apple asks customers to avoid most cleaning products because they can damage the “anti-fingerprint oleophobic coating” on the screen. As the name suggests, the anti-fingerprint oleophobic coating helps prevent fingerprints and grease from sticking to the screen, allowing them to be removed with a simple dry or damp microfiber cloth. If you damage this coating, you’ll find that the screen gets dirty faster and is harder to clean.
If you want to give your phone a deep clean, the best cleaners Apple recommends are 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes, 75% alcohol wipes, or disinfecting wipes, just make sure not to let any moisture get into the openings on the bottom of the phone.
What about the popular Whoosh cleaner?
You may have seen a Whoosh set of cleaning products from Canada on e-commerce platforms or online forums. This product is free of alcohol, ammonia, dyes and fragrances and is designed for smartphones, laptops and other types of technology. interestingly based onLink to the product official websiteA TikTok post claimed that this is “the only approved screen cleaner in all Apple Stores worldwide.” According to the post, Whoosh is used in every Apple Store, and is also noted as Apple’s secret weapon for keeping displays looking like new. Of course, the product isn’t mentioned in Apple’s official cleaning recommendations, and it’s not sold in-store or on its website, which may seem a bit bizarre, but if this statement were false, Apple would surely ask Whoosh to remove it from the site.
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From an Apple employee’s perspective, the important thing to keep in mind with all cleaning advice is that whatever method they come up with may be working against them if people follow it and end up with a broken phone. The easiest thing to do is to make sure you have the safest, hardest-to-mess-up cleaning method available, which is a damp microfiber cloth. So while there may be other options, they won’t get any endorsement guarantee from Apple, and you won’t get any help if you do use them and damage your phone, as you’ll likely void the warranty.
Source: KOCPC Chinese