Is cleaning liquid save to use?

[Yuna1982]

I noticed that a microfibre cloth is not enough to keep my screen clean (or maybe it's just my cloth) so I was wondering if a cleaning liquid would be save to use. Of course I don't spray directly on my phone but my cloth will be a bit wet. Normally I just use it without thinking but recently I did read too much about the liquid indicators getting red for no reason.

Ohh and I always use my phone with clean hands although I don't wash them before picking up my phone.

 

[jpr]

You shouldn't use any cleaning products on your screen and you shouldn't use alcohol. Anything with chemicals in it will wear away the oleophobic coating of your screen. Only use a microfiber cloth and you can dampen it (the cloth, not the phone) slightly with only water if you have something sticky on your screen.

Of course if it were a one time occasion where something unfortunate happened to your phone and you felt a damp cloth wasn't sufficient to clean it under the circumstances, it wouldn't destroy your screen to carefully use an alcohol solution once. But you don't want to normally or on any regular basis at all use alcohol or cleaners on it. Only on a rare necessary occasion.

 

[Rukbat]

Anything with chemicals in it will wear away the oleophobic coating of your screen.

Except rubbing alcohol, which is what's used to dry a wet phone (by immersing the whole phone in an alcohol bath).

 

[jpr]

Except rubbing alcohol, which is what's used to dry a wet phone (by immersing the whole phone in an alcohol bath).

No, you're definitely wrong about that. Rubbing alcohol will absolutely wear away the oleophobic coating.