Can You Clean Tv Screen With Windex

JustOneQuickONe

And then, I know the iPad screen should not exist cleaned with windex (or then I've read) just when I was home over the holidays good ol' mom tried to be helpful and wiped downwards my screen with a windex covered cloth (I witnesses the law-breaking ) and this textile was pretty damp (not soaking). Is it true that over time this will suspension downward the protection of the screen and glass itself, or is that with repeated apply? I'one thousand not too worried well-nigh this one time (fifty-fifty though I take occasionally used eye glasses cleaner, but information technology has no ammonium and is fairly weak) but wiped information technology down with a little water on a microfiber cloth just to make sure and was merely curious in general. Should I get a screen protector only in case? (No, I am not currently using protection with my iPad)

Thank you!

NameUndecided

Oh my, I've never heard that window cleaner isn't a proficient thing on the iPad screen. I use an ammonium-free cleaner quite regularly with a cleaning textile. I wonder if I should stop.

number84

How about baby wipes? I use these all the time.

Caliber26

I keep my displays on my laptops, smartphones & tablets, clean and fingerprint gratis very hands. Only utilise nothing but a microfiber fabric dampened with manifestly water. If cleaned this manner every few days or equally needed, it will not become so filthy that chemical cleaners are required. Thus extending the life of the display. Easy to carry, microfiber fabric is washable and fits in my laptop case easily. Nada is as effective and like shooting fish in a barrel on your screen as microfiber.

I couldn't take said it better myself.

seeharrison

IPad has an oleophobic blanket which means information technology repels oil, such equally body oils from your fingers that cause fingerprints. The makes it very easy for a simple swipe of microfiber cloth to clean it.

The chemicals in those cleaners intermission downwards he oleophobic blanket, clean it away, or tin can over time.

The blanket doesn't to protect from physical damage so a case isn't going to replicate the lack of he coating.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3226#ipads

Adept to know. Thank you for sharing!

Sandman1969

Oh my, I've never heard that window cleaner isn't a good thing on the iPad screen. I use an ammonium-free cleaner quite regularly with a cleaning cloth. I wonder if I should cease.

I would think that would exist fine. I use that stuff on my tinted windows in my machine.

For the iPad I just use the Microfiber that came with our original iMacs. That does a great quick task. I imagine when I put my new instance on that has a sleeve pocket on the inside I will continue the cloth there.

iCandii

IPad has an oleophobic coating which means it repels oil, such as body oils from your fingers that cause fingerprints. The makes it very easy for a simple swipe of microfiber cloth to clean information technology.

The chemicals in those cleaners break down he oleophobic coating, clean information technology away, or can over time.

The coating doesn't to protect from physical damage so a case isn't going to replicate the lack of he coating.

http://back up.apple.com/kb/HT3226#ipads

From the number of fingerprints on my screen correct at present, oil repelling is hard to believe

SporkLover

From the number of fingerprints on my screen right now, oil repelling is hard to believe

Repelling is the key..... Information technology'due south non oil proof. Besides the oil repelling is what makes it easy to clean with just a micro fibre cloth

Tonewheel

I say nonsense. Just use the right cleaner.

Don't use Windex or anything else with ammonia. I've used Invisible Glass for years on my calculator screens, iPhones and iPads. (Invisible Glass is the simply product recommended by my motorcar window tinter.) Clean dandy, leaves the screen polish, and no visible or tactile deterioration whatever has been observed. Just be certain you spray the cotton fiber cloth, then wipe. Don't spray the screen, or risk getting spray where information technology doesn't belong.

Brokenstuff

I simply heavy jiff on mine and wipe it with my sleeve - my bad?

Stealthipad

I do not call up the coating on the screen is ammonia soluble. Apple had to know that people would use products like Windex.

Request people how they clean their screen in he forums will cyberspace yous as many answers every bit how to charge the iPad bombardment.

btbrossard

The "screen cleaning with windex is bad" thing is a myth. I used to purchase into it until I tried information technology and for years since I've cleaned all my products (monitors, including ACDs, Telly's, iPhone and iPad screens) with windex every few days.

I've cleaned almost everything I own with Windex and nothing has burst into flames withal.

woodbine

How about babe wipes? I use these all the time.

wipes incorporate a lot of chemicals.

I have a bottle of iMonster screen cleaner, looks like water with mayhap a surfactant.

ode2joy

I understand the concern, but who keeps one long plenty to intendance? Anyone on this forum probably isn't going to have whatever idevice more than a yr or ii without upgrading it. I hate to use that annoying 'only sayin' line, simply..............just sayin'