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How often do you clean your monitor(s)? ✨

Jess Lee on June 08, 2019

I've been getting in the habit of doing this at least once a week! And while I'm at it, I'll clean my phone screen too 😄

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Andrew McKeever

Whenever a colleague points out how bad my screen is 😅

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Wachira

True to that 😂😂😂😂

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Laurie

Less often than I should? 🙃

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

I clean mine maybe once every two weeks.

When you buy a monitor or use a new computer do you calibrate the color?

If on MacOS
Open System Preferences.
Click on Displays.
Click Color Tab.
Hold down Option and click Calibrate. (this gets you the Advanced editor)
Follow the steps in the wizard.

There you go! Some web designers don’t even do it. If you calibrate the screen the colors will be more true.

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Dave Follett

What do you use to clean the screen?

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Stephen Belovarich

Microfiber cloth.

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Stacy Cashmore

Not as often as I'd like!

I see it needs cleaning, but as it's touch I need to shut off my machine to clean it or interesting things happen.

So, I decide I'll clean it when I shut down at the end of the day.

I Forget. Of course.

Repeat 😊

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Mark Sta Ana

Once I can’t read the screen...

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Clara

Exactly same as you - we had these great wipes. Since I moved to Israel, I haven't found them though, so it has been less 🙈

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Thomas C. Haflich

Probably not enough. Oops.

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Thomas H Jones II

Perhaps the more critical question is, "how often do you clean your keyboard?"

It seems like most keyboards I encounter, were one to hold them upside down, tap them, and capture the contents into a cup, and add hot water, one could make a fairly hearty soup.

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anpos231

Once a month, or when it gets really dirty.

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Quentin Sonrel

At home? When they need cleaning, which isn't that often, they just don't get dirty most of the time.

At work? Never because I never have anything to clean them with and never think about bringing something from home, ahah.

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Corey Alexander

I can't remember the last time I cleaned mine so as other's have said probably not enough 😆

I think I tend to clean the screen on my laptop more than my external monitors though, even though I use the externals more

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Christian Baer

Wait... You have to clean displays?

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Thomas H Jones II

When you've gone out of town with a touchscreen-using spouse and your laptop is the one you brought with you, you find that, at the end of the trip, your screen is covered with finger-drag marks because of your spouse's habits.

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Wachira

Nice one😂😂😂

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Ida Bagus Gede Pramana Adi Putra

When we were in college, my friend said "Gus, look how dirty your monitor is.. Are you serious that you want to take care of censored (my first love)? You can't even take care of your laptop."

Damn, after that, I clean my laptop immediately after I got home.

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Sm0ke • Edited

Funny question.
Once a month, but when I do, I have the feeling that I'm using a brand new laptop.

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bob.ts

More often than my steering wheel and not as often as my keyboard.

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Ryland G

Every day I clean all my devices including screens

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Matthew Francis

Had this monitor since February and haven't cleaned it 😬

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Forest Hoffman

When the layer of dust on the screen is thick enough that I have to turn up the brightness.

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Vicente G. Reyes

I clean mine whenever I see a spot that HAS to be cleaned. Only then I reach for my fiber thing cloth to clean my monitor😂😂

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Gift Egwuenu

Thinking about this. I’ve not in a while what do you use to clean yours?

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Itachi Uchiha

Once a year :P

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Hugo Le Duff

Constantly.

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Ryan Winchester

I just get used to reading around the dirty spots.

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Thomas H Jones II

Right up until the dirty spots start looking like delimiters in your code.

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Sandor Dargo

Whenever I can't figure out what's on the screen...

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Periklis Gkolias

So, are they cleanable? Thanks Jess :)

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Victor Edier

My work screen never, my phone once a month with my t-shirt

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Pankaj Kumar

During zoom meeting 😄

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Kevin Ard

My laptop (touch), every few days. The desktop (no touch)... Ummm... I haven't lol. IDK how long I've had them. A year? 🤷‍♂️

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Adrián Norte

When the contents on the monitor become cryptographically secure due to the amount of dirt.

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Ben Sinclair

2018.

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Joe Hobot • Edited

When I no longer see myself when its turned off.

/jk

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Jesse M. Holmes

I can't stand having a messy monitor, but I also don't have a set schedule. My cleaning kit is always nearby, and I clean as I go.

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Abdelrahman Ismail

On Monday every week, I have OCD xD.

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Chandra Dasari

Once a week, I can't stand fingerprints on screens.

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Nikit Singh

Let's just say not very often. xD

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Rondinelli Mesquita

I clean when I can't figure out what is a comma of what is a dust grain. Haha

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Vikas Raj

When I am unable to see the code 🧐

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Almost every day now since I started to take pictures of my notebook for my Instagram account @lampewebdev

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Jefry Pozo

It's been a long while while since I cleaned mine. I intent to clean all my peripherals (keyboard, mouse, monitor, laptop) as well as the desktop as part of my house chores. 😅

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William Antonelli

I bought a pack of cleaning cloths two years ago... I lost it two years ago.

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AhmadDeel

I planned and hope to do it once a week or two but doing it once a month, so productive.😊😂👏

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Nadine M. Thêry

As often as I clean my keyboards. I bought that sticky substance from Wish and it works perfectly.

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Dinesh Pandiyan

First thing in the morning. Everyday.

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Ben Halpern

Quarterly?

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Andriy Andruhovski

It depends on the season. Once a month in the summer, and once every two months in the winter.

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Veni Kunche

When I open it in public and get embarrassed at how dusty it is :D. I never notice it at home for some reason.

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Thea

Almost every day with a microfiber cloth.

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Siddharth

I clean the monitor screen every day before work and after work.

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Ross Henderson

There's probably nothing that triggers me more in the office than someone touching my screen.

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AhmadDeel

Let me clean it, 1,2, it's done My phone's monitor, LoL

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James

I am not comfortable with this line of questioning.

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Thomas H Jones II

Whenever I start to make reading errors due to the splotch-buildup.

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Gabriel Kanev

Once a week.
I try to clean the screens, clean my desk and tidy up the "place" every Monday.

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Charles Anim

lol, this is a tricky one. I haven't for months, until seeing this thread. Thanks for the reminder.