Author: Craig Lloyd / Source: howtogeek.com
Your phone is gross, but it doesn’t take much effort to clean it up and get rid of all those germs. Here’s how (and why) you should be cleaning and sanitizing your phone and other devices around your house.
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Bacteria, germs, and other gross stuff are all around us.
Not all of it’s bad, and some are completely harmless, but it’s easy to come across various germs, fungi, bacteria that have the potential to making you sick. Your phone is just one place where tons of germs are living rent-free.A Closer Look (Literally)
Think of the dirtiest places in your home, where you might assume germs and bacteria are thriving. The first things that come to mind are likely your bathroom and maybe the kitchen sink, but probably not your phone, keyboard, mouse, and the TV remote.
Contrary to what you may believe, your toilet is probably cleaner than your phone and other devices, and that’s mostly thanks to our constant paranoia of the bathroom being such a germ-invested hellscape, that we tend to clean it more often than other areas or things around the house. Plus, toilet seats are non-porous, and don’t usually have lots of nooks and crannies where grime can hide.
To see for myself, I got a petri dish kit and swabbed a few things in my house, including the inside of my toilet bowl (also neglecting to clean it for a couple of weeks…for science). I then waited about a week and a half and came back to see the results. Here’s what I found:
As you can see, bacteria from my phone…
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