It’s Time to Clean Your Phone!

With COVID-19 spreading across the world, it is important that you take the time to clean and disinfect your phone. Health experts want to let everyone know that there are still a lot of unknowns about the virus so it important that you take as many preventative measures as you can. Just washing your hands will not protect you from getting infected. If you do not regularly clean and disinfect surfaces that you touch on a daily basis and practice good hygiene, then there is still a chance you will get the virus.

One of the surfaces that we touch multiple times a day but rarely remember to clean is our phones. Depending on the conditions, viruses such as COVID-19 can survive on your phone’s screen and case anywhere from a few hours to a week. Thus, it is essential that you clean your phone after you or it comes in contact with an unclean surface.

So how do you properly disinfect your phone?

Apple has released an official page on how you can properly clean and disinfect your Apple devices. However, all of the recommendations and guidelines they gave can apply to other brands of phones. They state that it is okay to use a disinfectant on your phone as long as you avoid getting moisture in any of the openings and use a soft, lint free cloth. You can click on this sentence to learn more on how to clean your phone from Apple.

The most common way to clean your phone is to:

1. Unplug all cables connected to the phone
2. Remove the case from your phone
3. Shut down the phone
4. Use a disinfectant wipe that has an alcohol content of 70% to wipe the phone
5. Use another wipe to clean the inside and outside of the case
6. Let both the phone and case air dry before putting the case back on

We understand you might not have access to disinfectant wipes. If that is the case, please follow the directions below:

1. Unplug all cables connected to the phone
2. Remove the case from your phone
3. Shut down the phone
4. Slightly dampen a washcloth with soap and water
5. Wipe down the phone carefully so that water does not enter any of the phone’s openings
6. Dry the phone immediately with a dry towel to ensure water does not enter its openings
7. Clean the phone case with soap and water
8. Let both the phone and case air dry before putting the case back on

Once you are done disinfecting your phone, why not take it a step further and clean out your phone’s storage? By downloading FileZ onto your Android phone, all of the content on your phone will be organized into folders so you can find the files you want to get rid of. FileZ also has a built-in storage cleaner that identifies what large files and APKs that might be slowing your phone down.

Cleaning and disinfecting our phones is a necessary step that we must take to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Along with cleaning and disinfecting, we all need to make the conscious effort to not touch our phones after we touch public surfaces and to not set them down on possibly contaminated surfaces. We have control over how clean our phones are and with just a little bit of effort on our part we can prevent viruses such as COVID-19 from surviving on them.