How to clean your phone properly during the coronavirus outbreak Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life How to clean your phone properly during the coronavirus outbreak By You Magazine - March 23, 2020 We’ve all heard that horrifying fact about our phones being seven times dirtier than a toilet seat, so now more than ever we should really be looking at keeping our mobile phones squeaky clean to avoid spreading germs and possibly coronavirus to one another. It’s been proven that coronavirus can last on surfaces such as metal, glass and plastic for up to nine days, so it’s crucial that we keep our phones as clean as possible to stop them from harbouring the virus. Alamy Abiding by the government’s advised rigorous hand-washing routine is an essential habit we must all adopt, but given that we pick up our phones on average 58 times a day (and that number is probably even higher for those now officially working from home), if you’re not going to clean your phone too, there’s almost no point in taking to the sink at all. But how do you properly disinfect an electronic device? To ensure you scrub your mobile phone efficiently and safely, consider the following tips. How to clean your phone Tip #1 First of all, unplug from the charger, turn off your device and remove the protective case if you have one. Tip #2 Apple and Google recommend using an alcohol wipe containing at least 55 per cent alcohol strength to be properly effective at removing bacteria and germs. Wipe over all sides of your phone plus the inside and outside of your protective case. Alamy Tip #3 Speaking of cases, if your phone is currently housed in a leather case, you may wish to consider swapping to a wipe clean-friendly plastic hard case, instead, as leather cases are known for being the grubbiest and harbouring the most germs. Tip #4 Don’t spray liquid cleaners directly onto your phone, but rather onto a soft cloth, like the ones that come with sunglasses, to wipe over your device. Tip #5 Invest in CASETiFY’s new UV Smartphone Sanitiser. Destroying 99.9 per cent of germs that live on our phone’s surface, the germ killing pod charges your phone at the same time and fits all smartphones. It costs £100 and comes with ten complimentary hygiene wipes to keep your phone as clean as possible. Even better, 100 per cent of the proceeds from the UV Smartphone Sanitiser will be donated to GlobalGiving’s Coronavirus Relief Fund, which is sending essential supplies, medical responders and food to communities in need during this crisis. CASETiFY UV Sanitiser, £100, CASETiFY Tip #6 With the current coronavirus spreading fast, you should be cleaning your phone as often as you can, at least once a day, and especially if you have been out and about with it. Don’t forget to apply the same principles to all your handheld tech – iPads, tablets, Kindles, laptops, keyboards and TV remotes could all do with a good once-over every day. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved