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How Often Do You Wipe Your Screen?
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Sorta depends.
In the winter when it was generally darker, I couldn't see any finger prints/smudges, but now that it's summer and significantly brighter, I notice smudged and smears on my way to classes and it really bugs me.
I usually give my screen (and entire phone) a good clean with iKlear about once a day.
In the winter when it was generally darker, I couldn't see any finger prints/smudges, but now that it's summer and significantly brighter, I notice smudged and smears on my way to classes and it really bugs me.
I usually give my screen (and entire phone) a good clean with iKlear about once a day.
When i the screen is blank is when I more notice the fingerprints, however when I'm using they don't bother me at all.
I clean it on a daily basis after I clean my glasses.
If you pass it over to another person, whom never have talked over an iPhone, to talk, they will left you a very nasty oily print of their ear... :\
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I clean it on a daily basis after I clean my glasses.
If you pass it over to another person, whom never have talked over an iPhone, to talk, they will left you a very nasty oily print of their ear... :\
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You can't tell at all when you are in low lit conditions but the second my touch hits the Florida sun you can notice them. The way I see it, the screens going to get dirty every single time you use it so why worry about it? I would say probably a single swipe with my shirt once a day. Forget about the back that Thing is always dirty.
Wipe my screen off every morning before heading into work with the cloth that came with the iPhone. My screen looks as good as it did on June 29th.
if it's extremely messy i get a clean cloth dip it in water and ring it out so it's only just damp, then lightly clean the screen, then buff it up with a little grey lense cleaning cloth that came with my psp, i dont like the iphone one, if any crap builds up in the tiny gaps of the iphone i use the air compressor at work, gets rid of everything every last spec of dust!!
The same for me, its probably at least 3 weeks since I last bothered...although why a protective screen should make such a difference is a bit of a mystery.
I noticed that too about the protective screens. My friend's iPhone looks nicer with the screen on cause there's no smudges or buildup. But what happens to the glass after the protective screen has been stuck to it for awhile? Doesn't it end up sticky with glue residue? Is it an either/or choice - to screen or not to screen? I like keeping my bare though sometimes the smudges get to be a bit much.
Mine's in an Incase and the screen is covered with a Power Support Crystal Film, so I just wipe it on a sweatshirt sleeve or when I swap it out of the Incase once in awhile, I might polish it up with a barely damp microfiber cloth or even a paper towel, whatever. It looks as nifty as the day I unboxed it! That crystal film stuff can sure take a joke.
There is one little place on the film near an edge where I was trying to relocate a bookmark button one day to the next page and it wouldn't go and I must have dug my nail in a little bit when I moved the Incase edge away to get that button to comply, other than that it looks pristine.
That's pretty amazing, usually my stuff acquires major battle scars because I tend not to like the cases and eventually tote the stuff around naked. The Incase and Power Support Crystal combo have worked out great for me with my iPhone.
There is one little place on the film near an edge where I was trying to relocate a bookmark button one day to the next page and it wouldn't go and I must have dug my nail in a little bit when I moved the Incase edge away to get that button to comply, other than that it looks pristine.
That's pretty amazing, usually my stuff acquires major battle scars because I tend not to like the cases and eventually tote the stuff around naked. The Incase and Power Support Crystal combo have worked out great for me with my iPhone.
I hate when the screen is smudged, I immediately wipe, but when you tilt it a certain way in the light it looks fine. I just use my shirt to wipe, a mix of syliva sometimes and shirt and it's smudge free.