How to Clean and Disinfect Your Phone, Screen and Phone Case

It’s important to remember that mobile phones are high touch surfaces just like toilet handles, which makes a mobile phone a potential germ hotspot. Keeping your phone clean and sanitized with Clorox™ Disinfecting Wipes and periodically disinfecting it when needed is easy and helps prevent the spread of illness during cold and flu season and all year long. 

In fact, studies show just how contaminated mobile phones are: they have been linked to the spread of illness in health care environments. Depending on a person’s personal hygiene habits, like how often they wash their hands, germs on a phone may be a problem in the home environment, too. Fortunately, it’s easy and convenient to use disinfecting wipes on most phone screens and cases. Always follow manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and disinfecting of electronics.

For a full list of phone-friendly disinfecting wipes, check out our products page here.

Sanitizing means reducing germs to a level acceptable by public health standards. It only takes 10 seconds for Clorox™ Disinfecting Wipes to sanitize a smartphone. If there’s obvious dirt, wipe it away first, then give the phone a quick wipe down and make sure it stays visibly wet for 10 seconds. Disinfecting a phone requires a longer contact time described below. Disinfecting is a higher level of germ kill than sanitizing, where bacteria and viruses are effectively eliminated.