How to clean your Android phone screen

  • The phone screen gets dirty easily due to constant use.
  • Cleaning with tap water or alcohol may damage the screen and its layers.
  • Using a chamois or soft cloth is the best option for cleaning.
  • For a deep cleaning, consider taking your phone to a specialized center.

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We take the mobile phone practically anywhere. We use it and take it even if we are eating, dusting or scrubbing. We take it even if our hands are stained to answer a call, a WhatsApp message or to upload a photo to Instagram. We almost always have a dirty screen, full of fingerprints ... And many times you don't know how to clean your phone screen.

It would be easy to put the phone under the tap and wash it. But unfortunately, you can't. First, because tap water contains chlorine and can cause your screen to stain. Second, because if your phone isn't waterproof, you can be without it.

Alcohol is one of many people's choices for cleaning the phone. It is a substance that allows cleaning electrical circuits and is widely used in electronics. But it's a bad idea If we are going to clean the screen of the phone: by pouring alcohol on the screen we end up with bacteria but also with the layers of the phone that allow dirt not to accumulate more than necessary on the mobile and that repels fats, for example.

However there are options to wash the phone screen, get rid of traces and not always have it dirty.

How to clean your Android phone screen

Before cleaning your phone, turn it off. It is advisable that is disconnected and, of course, that it is not plugged in or charging.

The most advisable for remove dust, fingerprints and dirt from the screen of your mobileHe is that you clean them dry. You can use a cloth or a chamois like the one you use to clean glasses, for example. Being a very soft material, it will not damage the screen and you can remove fingerprints without filling the screen with scratches. Never use a scouring pad, tissue, or towel… they are rougher materials that could scratch the screen.

If it doesn't seem enough to you, you can slightly dampen the cloth and wipe it over the phone. SAs long as you do not soak the cloth and that no drops fall on the screen. In addition, it has to be a chamois or a completely clean cloth since if you have used it previously it may contain some type of substance or dust that causes damage to your screen. It is more advisable, in addition, that instead of moistening the cloth with tap water, you do it with distilled water or that you mix alcohol with water in a proportion of 40% - 60%, for example. In both cases, it is advisable that you rub in circles, gently, without applying too much force. By passing the chamois over the screen you can leave fingerprints and doing it in circles will prevent this from happening.

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If none of the above works and your mobile is full of grease, bacteria and dirt that you are not able to remove, you can take your phone to a specialized center. There are specialized centers that perform an interior and exterior cleaning of your phone without leaving any type of trace. If you are going to change the phone and you do not want this to happen again, you can also place it on the screen of your smartphone a special protector to avoid accidents, splashes, stains, fingerprints ...


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