Advice: have disposable wipes by the front door and use them to wipe your smartphone and then manipulate your handwashing sink each time you arrive home.
Model: You are touching your smartphone while out, and to whatever extent possible you want surfaces inside your home to be controlled. CDC recommends disinfecting touchscreens but many people don’t because disinfectant can damage special coatings. One can bite the bullet or consider adding on another screen cover.
I have been disinfecting my smartphone and glasses with disinfectant wipes, and have had no problems with coatings so far. I haven’t used them on my computer screen; I know the antireflective coating on the macbook screens can be sensitive.
My disinfectant wipes are neither alcohol nor bleach, but quaternary ammonium (with a list of ingredient names all having the form ”...yl ammonium chloride”.) My sense is that this seems to be typical of generic “disinfecting wipes”.
Advice: have disposable wipes by the front door and use them to wipe your smartphone and then manipulate your handwashing sink each time you arrive home.
Model: You are touching your smartphone while out, and to whatever extent possible you want surfaces inside your home to be controlled. CDC recommends disinfecting touchscreens but many people don’t because disinfectant can damage special coatings. One can bite the bullet or consider adding on another screen cover.
I have been disinfecting my smartphone and glasses with disinfectant wipes, and have had no problems with coatings so far. I haven’t used them on my computer screen; I know the antireflective coating on the macbook screens can be sensitive.
My disinfectant wipes are neither alcohol nor bleach, but quaternary ammonium (with a list of ingredient names all having the form ”...yl ammonium chloride”.) My sense is that this seems to be typical of generic “disinfecting wipes”.
They are basically surfactants that work by disrupting cell membranes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_ammonium_cation]