What can’t I live without? My smartphone. I mean I lose it all the time around the house, probably at least 3x a day, but I always find it and I always need it. One of the things we all use the most in our daily lives is a smartphone.
Smartphones are used to carry on conversations, block out conversations with people standing next to us, play music, help us surf the internet to gain solutions, buy tickets to events, schedule dinner arrangments and so on. Wow, now I know who wears the pants in this relationship or should I say the germs and the baggage?
The item I tote around the most is the item that I clean the least and I can attest to the filth that it collects, but spring cleaning a smartphone goes way beyond the exterior grime and bacteria and into a deeper level we all need to consider. Lavishly live your favorite smartphone out loud grab these tips for spring cleaning your smartphone!
Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Smartphone
I am not your average smartphone user, in fact admittedly I spend too much time on my phones, but they are my life, my work. Today’s post is a sponsored post on behalf of Verizon Wireless, but all opinions and thoughts are my own. You know that I only share what makes life easier to lavishly live out loud and today I have some awesome tips for Spring Cleaning that smartphone. Let’s start!
Screen Cleaning
Have you looked at your screen? Is it a total nightmare with fingerprints and grime? Did you know that more smartphones have more bacteria on them than some bathrooms? It is true. In fact, some phones even have fecal matter on them. It’s time to clean these phones up. Phonesoap is a tool you can use to sanitize and clean!
Clutter Apps
Really look at the apps on your phone, most of us have several apps we NEVER us and they just take up space, get rid of them. If you have not used the app in the last 6 months, ditch it (ok other than the DISNEY app because we all want to see the wait times, lol!)
Updating
Are you a procrastinator about updating your apps and always thinking that you will get the update when you slow down? Don’t forget to update it let’s the apps you use each day run more smoothly, and often it takes away glitching! So update weekly just before you go to bed!
Purging Password Holders
Here’s the thing about password holders, they can be great or they can be evil, my suggestion, get a password, get a few and use them, rotating as necessary, but don’t use a password holder, it is a license for trouble IMO.
Case Removal
While we discussed cleaning the phone, I also suggest a deeper cleaning, not just for the face or for the outside of the case, but actually the CASE itself. Take it off, sanitize it then replace it, you will be surprised at the residue all over the camera.
Photos & Storage
The biggest space suck on a phone are often photos and videos. Get GOOGLE to hold those photos. I mean you need space and this easily backs up and take them into holding. I love mine and it makes it easier for me to never worry about hogging space on my phone!
Old Phones
Cleaning up and cleaning out also means properly recycling, or donating your old phone equipment. Call your local borough or municipal to find out how to properly discard or try out sites for selling your smartphone and making a little money like Gazelle or EcoAtm.
It is about purging what we don’t use, merging what we do, combining real life activities onto our virtually recorded life. Get green, clean well and spring clean your smartphone. Lavishly live tips for spring cleaning your smartphone out loud and get springing to clean up and clean out! What tips do you have to help out ?
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Great tips! For the amount of money invested in smartphones these days, it definitely makes sense to ensure that they are kept in the best condition possible.
If phones have that much germs on them, would that mean that Howie Mandel cannot use one? Just a thought. I doubt I can do that deep cleaning tip. Too afraid I’d get my phone broken if I do that.
That Phonesoap thingie is very neat. I might get one. Looks like it can thoroughly clean your phone.
What do you mean by a password holder? Is it the app where you store all your passwords? Or an actual, physical item where you write your passwords? I use the former and it’s very handy because I have a lot of email addresses and I can barely memorize more than two passwords!
an app
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Thanks for telling me about Gazelle or EcoAtm. I did not know about these. Looks like I will be cashing in on some of my old smartphones…well hopefully!
So glad you wrote this post Dana, because cell phones are one of the dirtiest gadgets in the world! They go everywhere and lay down everywhere and put don’t stop to think of all the germs it’s collecting along the way.
I always treat phones and clean them as they were my own PC. Yes from casing to keypads it gets the alcohol treatment.
I do not have a smartphone believe it or not. However, cleaning tips are always appreciated.
I don’t necessarily recommend you constantly update your apps, but I’d highly encourage you to be on the lookout for operating system (OS) updates ASAP. The former can just use up what little RAM your smartphone holds but the latter will make sure your phone isn’t vulnerable to hacks and cyber attacks. My two cent’s worth.
I like your tips, Dana, except for the case removal part. My phone has a unibody design and I don’t have the tools and expertise to open it up for some ‘deep-cleaning’. I don’t think it’d be practical bringing my device to some shop and ask them to open it up to clean its hardware. I could try, though.
-Actually THE CASE is an Accessory, an add on is what I am speaking of NOT the phone itself
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What do you mean by “case removal” Dana? Did you mean the actual phone case or just the protective case? But honestly, I would like to remove my phone’s actual case because I think tiny dust particles could creep inside. Now that’s what you call a thorough cleaning!
I mean, after cleaning the outside, I take off my personal carry case for the phone and I clean the back of the phone itself. My case is the protector
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Phonesoap looks very nice! I’ve never thought of doing that kind of cleaning on my phone’s screen before. I thought a simple wipe would do. Thanks for the suggestion!
No problems on clutter apps on my phone. Never really downloaded many apps since I bought mi smartphone. With regards to physically cleaning the phone, do you have any recommendations on chemicals that are safe to use?
I never use chemicals, but I do use a lint free cloth for the screen. I don’t trust many items touching my phone you never know what might happen.
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Case removal? Wouldn’t that be risky? Might break my phone unintentionally. I’d probably just clean mine to the extent of what I can reach without opening the phone. Don’t wanna risk it. Other tips are awesome though!
No it is not risky. I literally PUT a CASE on my phone, I am not talking about taking the phone itself apart, rather the outside accessory case that I purchased to PROTECT my phone. That case takes a beating.
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I’m guilty of not deleting apps on my phone even if I don’t need them! I tend not to take pictures and videos so I don’t have any problems with that but I hoard every ebook that I have. Maybe I should delete those which I do not read, too…
The best thing I learned from this post is the part about them places I can sell my old phones. I’ve got a bunch of old phones in the attic now. I never sold my old phones when I got new ones for the past decade! I wonder if I can sell all that!
Spring cleaning a smartphone eh? This is why I prefer an old traditional mobile phone. I mean, all I ever do with it is call or send SMS anyways. Old-fashioned I know, but it works for me! My smartphone is basically just a portable game system/camera/GPS for me anyway. But these are good tips. Gonna share it with my girl whose smartphone is so cluttered!
Those are some sweet tips. Also, clearing up your history and old messages is a good way to keep your phone fast and proper. Thanks for the article!
More bacteria than bathrooms eh? Yeah, I suppose so. With this, it makes me think of how some people could be disgusted of public bathrooms when they may be holding something worse and for a longer period of time! Nice share!
Never really had problems with the storage part, at least for pictures and videos. I empty my phone of them on a per day/event basis and store in a machine that has about 4Tb of drive space at home. Still a bit skeptical about Cloud but I’m looking to try it out soon.
As a heavy user of smartphone myself, I find the tips is really helpful! I have never known about Phonesoap but I need this so much. Since I noticed I easily get breakout after having call many times a day.
Need to but a new one also, and look for some ways to sell it. Online selling can help.
I used to do this a lot especially with my low memory smartphone. I really have to do those and only leave the necessary.
Nice article about decluttering and cleaning the phones. Yes on point!
I have to agree that we need to clean our phone because we bring it wherever we are, even at the rest room. I am guilty with it. I only wipe it with tissue but the Phonesoap, I hope it is available in Lazada because I will buy one for my smartphone. It looks rotten now because I am not cleaning it.