How to clean your smartphone well?

Today, smartphones are an integral part of our daily life.However, while the world faces the coronavirus epidemic, the mobile phone is the big forgotten in terms of hygiene.

Good gestures to clean your smartphone

In the midst of a health crisis, barriers have become the standard to avoid the spread of the virus.However, if 95 % of French people have a mobile phone, very little have become used to cleaning their phone regularly.A useful and essential gesture which takes on its importance in the current period when disinfecting objects and surfaces prevents the transmission of infections.

An average user affects their smartphone several hundred times a day © Dimaberlin

Mobile phone: a microbes nest

The mobile phone screen welcomes seven times more separate colonies from bacteria than the toilet bowl.This little brilliant observation is explained by a very simple reason: we manipulate it all day.

Faced with this observation, what about the coronavirus?According to an American study, the virus would remain 4 hours on copper surfaces, 24 hours on the cardboard and up to 3 days on plastics or stainless steel!And these lifes of life can also vary depending on the temperature or the humidity.

Although these elements are still to be taken with care, cleaning your smartphone remains a useful and protective gesture.But there is no question of doing anything.

What disinfectant for my mobile phone?

The smartphones were not designed to be washed and disinfected.Even if some latest generation models are waterproof and can go into the water, it is not advisable to dive them directly into a disinfectant solution.So what are the right gestures to clean your smartphone?

We do not pour the contents of the gel bottle on the screen but on the © MR cloth.Khatawut

First, turn off your phone, remove the protective shell and disconnect it.Once these steps have been carried out, cleaning can start.

First, rub your phone with a clean cloth, microfiber for example (as if to clean the glasses) and non -plush without applying excessive pressure.You can also use alcohol -free or 70 % alcohol -based products so as not to damage the touch screen.Cleaning your phone with a cloth soaked in soapy water, avoiding infiltration in the openings, turns out to be as effective.

Once your phone is put up clean, let it dry fully before turning it on.Do not hesitate to repeat the operation regularly.

Products to avoid on a smartphone

Please note, when you want to clean your smartphone properly, there are products to avoid: compressed air aerosols, abrasive products or bleach.

Nettoyer la coque de son téléphone portable

Once the phone is clean, it would be useless to reduce all your efforts to nothing by putting the protective shell without cleaning.

Do not forget to rub the slice of the phone and its shell © Aslysun

In plastic, silicone or even leather, you can clean your shell with somewhat soapy water.Once the operation is carried out, rinse and dry the shell.

For leather, use a special leather nourishing cream to make its flexibility and prolong its lifespan.

Do not forget, the mobile phone is not the only object that must be maintained regularly.Whether connected watches or digital tablets, the keyboard and mouse of computers, the risk is identical and cleaning must also be done very regularly.

Finally, continue to adopt the right barriers like washing hands several times a day to avoid the spread of the virus as much as possible.

To your brands, ready, rub!

Illustration bannière : coronavirus, nettoyer smartphone – © Coolpicture