Over time and use, our iPhone’s charging port accumulates dirt. It does this especially when we carry the phone in our pocket and collects the occasional residue both from the same tissue and from the small particles that accumulate there. Fortunately, it can be cleaned very easily..
Something important, it must be said, well Excessive dirt can prevent charging from taking place properly and, in extreme situations, it can prevent this by not allowing the connector to reach the contact points. There are many recommendations when cleaning this port, but let’s look at a fairly simple one with something we all have at home.
Carefully but fearlessly
A clip. Nothing more. Simply we slightly open the leg of the clip to form a small L. Thanks to the same clip, the part that we hold with our fingers is thicker, so we will have a better grip for cleaning. And that’s all the tool we need.
Now, the iPhone’s charging port isn’t its strong suit, but it’s not flimsy either. In this direction, act calmly, but with caution. The best possible move is to insert the clip all the way into the connector, slide it to the side, then pretend to pick it up from the side of the opening until the dirt is gone. Then we repeat the process in the other direction.
With this we will have removed the fluff that usually accumulates in the port, for the finest dust, rolling part of a tissue paper in the part of the clip that we introduce is usually the best idea. In doing so, we’ve covered most types of dirt we can find.
In the event that it has been due to a liquid that has contaminated the port, say for example splashes of Coca-Cola, which is very sticky, the situation is much trickier. The recommendation here is to go to an Apple Store before doing anything. We could talk about isopropyl alcohol wipes, but from Appleswill recommend that we be carefulthat the remedy could be worse than the current situation.
That said, as we can see, quickly cleaning the port of our iPhone is really easy. A procedure that, using a sufficiently thin clip, also works for those of the iPad which, being USB-C —and while it reaches the iPhone 15—, has a central tab inside. When in doubt, be careful, but in the meantime, with something as common as a clip we can easily remove the most common dirt.
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