Cleaning Apple products is essential to ensure they function properly. If it is dirty, your iPhone’s performance will not be seriously affected, but yes the quality of speaker sound or screen brightnessFor example. Cleaning our Apple devices has long been of paramount importance, and in this situation it is common for us to resort to certain disinfectants or cleaning products. But not all of them can be used.
In an internal document, Apple specifically talked about products containing hydrogen peroxide, which we should never use in our devices. It also clarified which ones we can use, especially isopropyl alcohol based cleaners.
Wipes with 75% alcohol solution, nothing more
Cleaning an electronic product is something that should always be done with care. Some disinfecting or cleaning products contain chemicals that are not compatible with the device materials. If you don’t want to burn your Mac screen like I did, be careful.
In the case of iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, AirPods – whether AirPods 3 or AirPods Max – and others, Apple has confirmed, via a support document, that we should not use products containing hydrogen peroxidealso known as hydrogen peroxide.
To clean and disinfect Apple products, the company suggests use wipes with 75% alcohol solutionlike the hydroalcoholic wipes that can be found in hundreds of hotels or in Mercadona. Wipes that should not release lint and that we will never use on fabrics or leather-covered surfaces.
This is what Apple itself specifies:
Can I use disinfectant to clean an Apple product?
You can gently wipe 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes, 75% ethyl alcohol wipes, or Clorox brand disinfecting wipes on hard, nonporous surfaces of Apple products, such as the display, keyboard, and other external surfaces. Do not use these cleaning products with Apple Vision Pro, as they may damage the device. Do not use products that contain bleach or hydrogen peroxide. Do not allow moisture to enter through any openings, and do not immerse your Apple product in any cleaning agent. Do not use disinfectants on fabric or leather surfaces.
The support document reminds us that liquid damage is not covered by the standard warranty, although you can take out specific insurance within Apple Care. In any case, you should never submerge an Apple product in liquids, even if we came across an iPhone 12 that passed a diving test or this iPhone 14 located at the bottom of the ocean. And of course not in cleaning products either. Liquids that, on the other hand, can damage the seals between the parts and weaken them.
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