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How do you keep your screens clean ?

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NanKate Thu 15-Feb-18 09:22:24

Have you noticed, especially in sunlight, how filthy IPad screens get ? My grandsons regularly sneeze over the screens of both my IPads and I use little sachets of cloth meant to clean your glasses to clean mine down. They never seem to be 100% clean even after that. I also have to turn the IPad off as rubbing the screen can mess up all my apps etc.

On the subject of cleanliness take a look at your remote controls, mine would not pass muster ?

Eskay10 Sun 18-Feb-18 08:26:32

I’m with you Oldgoat, during a lifetime you need to eat a peck of dirt. But I must admit, I am being indoctrinated by all the adverts for clean wipes, etc. Environmentally they are hard to dispose of and take years to breakdown.

NotSpaghetti Sat 17-Feb-18 11:45:46

It's irrelevant what I clean my iPad with as I use a lot of hand cream for my super dry hands. I don't care what they look like but DO hate it when they stop working!

Madmartha Sat 17-Feb-18 08:03:32

Wish supermarkets would have wipes for their trolley handles nearby. Sometimes they’re wet or feel damp and you never know if the last person using it was the one who didn’t wash their hands in the toilet. Strangely enough I’ve never been bothered about bugs before, we have a 10 second rule for dropped food in our house, but recently sticky trolley handles brought me up sharp ?

Tessa101 Fri 16-Feb-18 19:35:03

Same as Harri

Tooyoungytobeagrandma Fri 16-Feb-18 19:21:32

Oldgoat you are not alone in not looking for extra things to clean. Both my kids practically lived outdoors in the garden, in the mud, messing with animals (occasionally remembering to wash their hands wink ) & eating worms/snails (I know excellent parenting skills me). They are both fit healthy adults, rarely sick same as me. I work on a shared computer and God knows if any of the other staff remember to regularly wash hands but I haven't caught anything life threatening yet. I also clean my screens on my jeans/sweater and they've had numerous pets climbing/sitting on them grin

Nelliemoser Fri 16-Feb-18 18:16:22

Buy proper screen wipes . If you have touch screens they get in a dreadfil mess.
You do need to scrape the chip fat off your fingers first though. wink
I am not too fussy about dirty screens.

willa45 Fri 16-Feb-18 17:51:17

Eyeglass cleaner and a microfiber cloth leaves it like new! I spray the liquid on the cloth and then give it a thorough wipe. I turn it off and then do the keys (yep, one at a time). smile

grandMattie Fri 16-Feb-18 17:39:39

I don't really, but I find filthy dirty screens replusive.

oldgoat Fri 16-Feb-18 16:50:32

Am I the only person on here who doesn't worry about germs on everything? I wouldn't say that our house is particularly mucky but I don't go round looking for bugs trapped in crevices. Our GSs are the children who get the 100% attendance certificates at school and seem to have aquired resistance to most germs.
If my phone screen is dirty I wipe it on my sleeve or trouser leg.

I don't know how some people risk having drinks or meals out. Do they wipe their cutlery down before they use it?

monkeebeat Fri 16-Feb-18 16:17:13

Just be aware. Vinegar does NOT kill Staphlacoccus bacteria

grandMattie Fri 16-Feb-18 16:07:30

Oh radical, have you forgotten the reason the only people on the new planet were hairdressers and telephone sanitisers after the intergalactic superhighway blasted Earth out of existance in THHGTTG ? Because everyone who was "useful" stayed on earth, had some terrible bug due to "unsanitised" telephones and died...

Welshwife Fri 16-Feb-18 15:14:00

Today I used a wipe for a small job and it was not dirty so I decided to give the computer key board and screen a clean - DH just come in complaining that since I cleaned the key board the machine keeps wanting him to sign up for iTunes!

Nanny41 Fri 16-Feb-18 14:47:26

Antiseptic wipes seem like the answer if children are sneezing over the screen, and not using tissues to sneeze into!

ElroodFan Fri 16-Feb-18 14:28:30

Laughed to myself when I read NanKate's thread as before logging onto Gransnet I decided my screen needed cleaning. I sprayed it with a a product called Screen Clean then wiped it with a paper towel. Brought it up lovely.

carol58 Fri 16-Feb-18 13:36:27

Microfibre cloth & the green window spray for mine.

Foxyferret Fri 16-Feb-18 13:03:25

I have a screen protector on mine which keeps the original screen in pristine condition. I also use spec wipes on the protector which keep it clean and use a screen pen, not fingers, to operate iPad. I find they are much better, no grotty finger marks.

Baggs Fri 16-Feb-18 12:23:52

I seem to have exceptionally clean hands so my iPad screen never gets very smudgy and when it gets a bit so I buff it with a dry cotton cloth (hankie). I think the clean hands thing is partly down to having very dry skin.

radicalnan Fri 16-Feb-18 12:10:18

I remember in the olden days when firms employed people to come every week and disinfect the phones.........

I just use a wet wipe on mine........anti bacterial.

Coco51 Fri 16-Feb-18 12:06:33

Oh NanKate, your post reminds me of an ageing aunt’s old fashioned telephone receiver: inside the mouthpiece there was bacon and various other delicacies - she did rather spray it than say it!

sarahellenwhitney Fri 16-Feb-18 11:55:52

If you have a local Wilko, or go to their website, they have a pack that is a complete DIY for tablets, pc, phone tv.I imagine you could buy them separately.

grandMattie Fri 16-Feb-18 11:28:48

Because of all that, I tend to use pointers obsessively. You can get them on e-bay for pence. I use the spec cleaner cloths, microfibre cloths, or whatever I have to hand...

GrannyParker Fri 16-Feb-18 11:20:29

I find the aerosol spray for cleaning glasses that Specsavers sell works a treat on my iPad.

Kim19 Fri 16-Feb-18 11:14:57

My screen seems just as murky five minutes after thorough clean. Am I being mocked?!

lovebeigecardigans1955 Fri 16-Feb-18 11:08:36

I do the same as Harri also those microfibre cloths are quite good.

tigger Fri 16-Feb-18 11:07:03

White vinegar brings them up lovely and also sterilises them.