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Other How often do you disinfect your iPhone/iPad?
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Usually wash my hands to know my phone isn't dirty
Every now and then I use wet wipes to wipe my phone and smart battery case
Every now and then I use wet wipes to wipe my phone and smart battery case
I disinfect my doorknobs or anything I touch after I came back from work, shopping, visiting family or touching anything outside.
I put my outer cloth in a special basket inside garages and wash it daily. I take shower every time I go outside. I use 90% alcohol to wipe my phone every time, I also dump my glasses into soap water for good 1 minutes.
I never understand why people don’t take precautions, never underestimate this virus.
Until you get infected and need to ICU. I cannot believe even after one and half years, people still not take this seriously.
I wipe it off with a damp paper towel with a tiny amount of dish or hand soap sometimes. Sometimes I use alcohol wipes. I tried a chrlorox wipe once, but it left a residue that was very irritating to my skin and smelled obnoxious. You don't need anything harsh to clean your phone.
Way to assume.
I work in a healthcare setting and have always taken the pandemic very seriously, which is why I'm fully vaccinated.
Not to nitpick, but it's not the same thing at all. Lots of people can touch a door knob, strangers delivering something for example. But I am literally the only one that touches my phone. I don't pass it around if I want to show someone a pic, a share it with them via wifi. Door knobs are a well known place to catch an infection, but your phone? Why?
You want in a healthcare settings. You should know that fully vaccinated does not mean you are 100% protected from this virus. It will only take one mutated variant to break vaccine. And there are already some mutations circulating inside Thailand that may or may not render vaccine useless.
You are working in healthcare setting, I am expecting you do better. You should really disinfect everything you touch and everything maybe exposed.
Do you take your phone out? Do you go out at all? If you do and your hand touches staff outside, your phone is contaminated.
You spend all day touching all sorts of things. The trick isn't to disinfect ALL those things. The trick is to keep your hands away from the "soft" areas of your body. You're trying to control the wrong thing.
I rarely used to disinfect/clean my phone before the pandemic. Since then, I've been doing for my iPhone / 11" iPad Pro every few days, mostly when I remember it's been a couple days and I see smudges. I just use a Clorox/Lysol wipe, and then dry it with a kleenex (otherwise I found it leaves streaks).
I have 2 young kids under 5, so they also touch my phone a lot (and as someone else mentioned, kids really dirty haha). My oldest uses a 10.5 iPad Pro for her virtual school (gave it to her when I upgraded to the 11" iPP), and I see basically every day how dirty her screen becomes from constant usage... so gives me a reminder, as I typically will clean all of them at the same time.
I have 2 young kids under 5, so they also touch my phone a lot (and as someone else mentioned, kids really dirty haha). My oldest uses a 10.5 iPad Pro for her virtual school (gave it to her when I upgraded to the 11" iPP), and I see basically every day how dirty her screen becomes from constant usage... so gives me a reminder, as I typically will clean all of them at the same time.
And your point is? if my hand touches stUff, *I'm* contaminated and my phone is the least of my worries. Before scientific research covid spread by surface contact was a reasonable concern, but now we know better. And other viruses that do spread by contact is NOT because of your phone, its because you touch your face with your contaminated fingers. Wash your hands. Stop touching your face. I clean my screen so that it functions better, not because its a serious health risk.
p.s. touching your staff outside in public is illegal in many places.
We never sterilize our own phones or require our kids sterilize their iPads, and have actually never been "germaphobe" type parents. Anecdotally, our kids have robust immune systems and rarely get sick, unlike our germaphobe friends, whose kids seem to catch anything and everything.