for no reason in particular we've been
getting a lot of questions lately about
the best way to clean your smartphone
which got us thinking how dirty is your
smartphone and what's the best way to
clean it to figure it out we repaired it
a few iFixit employees to see how dirty
their phones were and put some common
cleaning methods to the test using
science I'm Austin and my phone is not
always the cleanest thing I'm pretty
sure that this phone is filthy I'm
Kelsey I've got an iPhone 7 plus that I
Navy wash a couple times a year baby my
name is Cameron I have a Galaxy S 10
plus I don't think I've ever cleaned it
properly or just in general at all so
it's probably really gross I'm Ryan I
have a iPhone 10 I clean my phone
usually everyday by just wiping it down
with a wet towel if you wash my hands a
lot but not the phone
you can see the marks going through
whatever is on my phone there's probably
going to be a ton of really gross got
the agar plates so now we're gonna try
and clean it with the microfiber cloth
let's hope for the best year alright so
now I'm going to clean my phone and I'm
gonna use a disinfecting wipe is what I
normally use hopefully this'll work I
think it will so today I'm gonna clean
my phone using the iFixit screen saver
with some microfiber cloths so spread
these a few times today I'm going to be
cleaning my phone with the phone soap UV
sanitizer
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kind of softly do four lines again got
to keep it consistent
oh there's like all these little I guess
like little germ mold dots Oh God
okay so okay clean right well it seems
like my cleaning wipe method worked
pretty well but that is really really
gross and I definitely need to clean my
phone way more often
clean there's a few spots on there the
dirty is not as dirty as I expected but
there's definitely stuff growing in
there I'm surprised how well the UV
light cleaner did on cleaning the phone
okay okay this really gross oh okay
it's not as bad as I thought it was
gonna be but it's definitely some
whatever that is and then after it's
definitely a lot cleaner there's still
obviously something but the truth
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dirtier than the dirty I'd say a
microfiber cloth is probably not a good
cleaning solution so what did we learn
our highly scientific tests suggests
that disinfecting wipes and UV light
sanitizers work the best just to be sure
we consulted with a microbiologist to
see what lives on our phones check back
next week to see what we found out