Be careful if you too clean your phone with sanitizer

Mumbai : Due to the Coronavirus spreading all over the world, people are being repeatedly advised to wash their hands with soap and use sanitizer. People are afraid that they might get infected. That is why people go out of the house with a sanitizer and mask. In such a situation, many people use sanitizer to disinfect their phone too.

Screen and speaker may be defective
Some people also use anti-bacterial wet-wipes to clean the phone, but some people use hand sanitizer. They put sanitizer containing alcohol on top of the phone, rub and clean it. But do you know that doing so can harm your phone. More sanitizer can also damage your phone screen, headphone jack and speaker.

The phone may have a short circuit
After Corona, the number of phones repaired at the phone repairing center has increased significantly. Mostly such phones which are brought to the repair center have been cleaned with sanitizer. A mechanic at the repairing center said that many people are sanitizing the mobile in such a way that the sanitizer enters the headphone jack. There is also a risk of short circuit in the phone.

Display and camera can also get damaged
The color of your phone can change when the phone is cleaned with a sanitizer. Alcohol-based sanitizer can also damage the phone’s display and camera lens. This may cause the phone’s display to turn yellow.

Use cotton
If you want to clean the phone with the sanitizer, then first turn off the phone. Now take a piece of cotton and put a sanitizer on it. Now clean the screen of your phone with this in a straight line. Keep in mind that the amount of rubbing alcohol should be less in cotton. Apart from this, you can also know the right way to clean your phone by calling customer care. Phone materials and displays of different companies are different.

Use wipes
The best way to clean the mobile is the medicated wipes with 70 percent alcohol available in the market. With these wipes you can easily clean your phone. With the wipe, you can clean the corners and back panel of the phone well. By this, the bacteria of the phone also gets cleaned and the phone does not get damaged.

Anti bacterial paper
There is also a safe bacterial tissue paper available for mobile cleaning. You can buy these wipes from any medical store. With these papers you can clean your phone. These wipes are very dry so it will not damage the mobile.