How to Deep-Clean Your Phone Without Wrecking the Screen or the Finish

Consider what your phone encounters in a typical day. Breakfast table. Gym equipment. Public restroom counter. Office desk. Restaurant surface. Your face for every call. And then the nightstand, 3 inches from where you sleep, uncleaned. It’s a level of exposure most people would find unacceptable on any other object they handled constantly, but phones get a pass because the grime is invisible and the cleaning habit never quite formed. The routine that actually addresses bacterial buildup takes about two minutes and uses things most households already own.

The bacteria load on an average smartphone screen has been the subject of enough research to make the numbers unpleasant to think about — which is why most people don’t. Here’s the right way to sanitize your phone without damaging its screen or finish.

If you’re not disinfecting your phone daily, you’re letting layers of bacteria build up on the one object...

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