The second half of the page is more of the same. Pretty sure you don’t need a special kit to wipe your screen with a little rubbing alcohol.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Don’t use alcohol to clean your screen. It will destroy the oleophobic coating and your phone will become a fingerprint magnet. Just wipe it on your shirt or pants, or if it’s really a problem a plain dry tissue (not one of those moisturized ones)

    If you really “need” a liquid just use water.

    • bumpusoot [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      True, but only if:

      a) Your phone/screen protector ever had an oleophobic coating

      b) Your phone is <1 year old, by which time the coating will wear off anyway.

      I don’t think it really matters in most cases.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        All modern phones have an oleophobic coating. Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever encounter a glass touch screen phone without one. I’m pretty sure even my iPhone 3G had one because I remember it getting dirty faster as it got older. Same with screen protectors. I’ve encountered a few that obviously had no sign of a coating, but most have something. The dollar store one definitely didn’t.

        And idk about you, but the coating on my phones last a lot longer than a year. Maybe it’s down to how I take care of my devices but the coating lasts a lot longer than a year. My previous phone I had it for only 2 years but its coating was still going reasonably well when I sold it. That was with a screen protector though and I could easily just swap that out for another 2+ years.

    • adultswim_antifa [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 month ago

      I absolutely do not care in any way about an oleophobic coating which has probably been gone for years. But it would not stop me from cleaning a brand new phone periodically because phones are pretty gross and the oleophobic coating is not going to last anyway.