How dirty is your phone?
You clean almost everything you touch all day. The one thing you never clean is the thing you touch the most.
You handle it constantly — and almost never clean it.
We tap, swipe, and type on our phones around 2,600 times a day — then set them down without a thought. Unlike your hands, your phone is the one surface that basically never gets disinfected.
Everything you touch, you transfer to your phone.
Your phone goes everywhere you do — the shopping cart, the gas pump, a handshake, the toilet — then you pick it up and hand all of it to the glass. Nothing else you own collects germs from this many places and never gets cleaned.
Then it sits in the warm dark places.
It goes straight into a pocket, a purse, or onto a charger — dark, enclosed, and warmed by its own battery. A near-perfect incubator: bacteria love warmth and stillness, so they sit there and multiply between every use.
Then it all transfers right back to your hands and face.
You wash your hands, pick up your phone — and your hands are dirty again. Every time you bring it to your face, you give those germs a direct route in through your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Washing your hands and brushing your teeth already fight this. A clean phone is just the missing step.
It is not just dirt. It is the stuff that makes you sick.
Swab everyday phones and labs routinely turn up the bacteria and viruses behind colds, flu, stomach bugs, and skin infections — including E. coli, Staphylococcus, and influenza.
E. coli
Cramps, diarrhea, fever — from anything that has touched a restroom.
Staphylococcus
Skin infections, food poisoning, and worse for the vulnerable.
Influenza (flu)
Fever, aches, cough — survives on glass for hours.
Rhinovirus (cold)
The everyday cold, passed hand to phone to face.
Salmonella
Nausea, cramps, fever from contaminated surfaces.
Coronaviruses
Respiratory viruses that linger on the surfaces we share.
We pressed everyday items to petri dishes. The phone won.
Swab a phone, a door handle, a makeup brush — then let it grow. The phone's dish fills in fast: unlike a door handle, your phone never gets cleaned and never leaves your hand.
See the full lab testing results →We hand them around — to friends, coworkers, and kids.
You hand your phone to a friend for a photo, a coworker for a text, a toddler for a video. Every hand-off trades germs both ways.
For young kids, older adults, and anyone with a weaker immune system, that shared screen is worth keeping in check.
It is everything your house passes around.
The remote, the controllers, the tablet, the keyboard, the baby bottles, the toys that end up in a toddler's mouth — all handled constantly, all rarely cleaned, all quietly moving germs from person to person.
A phone-sized sanitizer keeps your phone in check. A larger one handles the whole shared pile in a single cycle.
This isn't for clean freaks. It's for anyone who washes their hands.
If you brush your teeth or reach for soap after the bathroom, you already live by this. A clean phone is just the step that got left out.
Shine a light on germs.
Wiping a phone just smears germs around and risks the screen. UV-C light skips the wiping: a germicidal wavelength that scrambles the DNA of bacteria and viruses. PhoneSoap surrounds your phone with it and eliminates 99.99% of germs† in minutes — no heat, no chemicals, nothing left behind.
Four reasons UV-C is the better way to disinfect
Light, not liquid — safer than a chemical wipe, gentler on your phone, and nothing to throw away.
No ozone
Pure UV-C light with zero ozone emissions — unlike some UV sanitizers.
Enclosed & shielded
The light stays sealed inside, with a safety shut-off the instant the lid opens.
No heat or liquid
Sanitizes with light alone — no wet wipes near your ports, gentle on delicate electronics.
Eco-friendly
Reusable — no chemical waste, disposable wipes, or residue.
For your phone
PhoneSoap sanitizes 99.99% of germs† on your phone with hospital-grade UV-C while it charges. Start with the original UV phone sanitizer.
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For everything you share
HomeSoap is the large UV sanitizer box for the family pile — tablets, remotes, controllers, bottles and toys — sanitized in one cycle.
Shop HomeSoap All UV sanitizers† Tested in a laboratory setting against specific pathogens; real-world results may vary. PhoneSoap products are not medical devices. Statistics on phone contamination, handwashing, and bathroom phone use are drawn from published third-party studies and surveys (including University of Arizona research) and are provided for general awareness.