Should You Clean Your Phone? Here’s Why You Should Add It Into Your Routine
The average person touches their phone almost 3,000 times a day, according to research from Dscout. And, considering how often you put your fingers on your device, you should be cleaning your phone — like, regularly. "For the heaviest users — the top 10 percent — average interactions doubled to 5,427 touches a day," the study revealed. "Per year, that’s nearly one million touches on average — and two million for the less restrained among us," reported Dscout. While some people are vigilant about wiping down their phones on the regular, others never clean their devices. Even if you wash your hands like a surgeon (and most people don't do this), if you touch your phone after you've toted it all over town, that hand washing is all for naught because your phone is 10 times dirtier than atoilet seat , according to a study published in the journal Germs . Since you're probably not ever touching a toilet with your bare hands, and you're t...