“My iPad screen is a filthy, greasy mess. No matter how often I clean it with a microfiber cloth, within a few touches I have soiled it again,” Charlie Sorrel reports for Wired.
“It’s not that I have particularly oily fingers. It’s just that the iPad’s screen seems to be oleophilic, slurping the grease from my digital pores and slathering them over the screen like a redhead slaps on the sun lotion,” Sorrel reports. “I have gotten used to it, and barely see the dirty streaks when the screen is lit. But it causes me great embarrassment when somebody else flips open the cover and is confronted with something that would make an English pub toilet look clean. Clearly I need to do something.”
Full article, in which Sorrel inexplicably denigrates a product he hasn’t even tried, here.
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My ipad 2 screen is always super clean. The smart cover really does wipe away fingerpints really well. So much cleaner than my ipad 1 screen ever was.
I agree. The Smart Cover does the trick. I’ve had my iPad 2 for two weeks and have never cleaned in with a cloth, but it has remained free of grease and fingerprints. Had it for a few days without the cover and noticed it got dirty, but the Smart Cover did it’s magic. And there’s more! It also cuts through leather shoes…
I have a ipad 2 and smart cover, mine seems to make it worse if anything, it also leaves streaks where it bends, the cover is cool and i like it but it doesnt clean my ipad at all
Another fine product brought to you from the makers of “Magic Soccer Player First-Aid” spray.
just my $0.02
If this stuff works, I’m gonna cover myself in it so I don’t ever have to take another shower.
That’s why I use a stylus.
Methinks Charlie needs to stop petting the rabbits so hard.
Oh wait – that was Lenny.
/damn
Not funny. Try again.
I admit it’s not as good as the time I called out your retarded objections to the decision to throw out the claims against Apple over CoverFlow.
Must not have the muse today.
Wasn’t that mice?
Something else that can solve this problem is one of those cans of Who Cares!
It’s my grease, my soil, and my fingerprints and I don’t have an aversion to dirt. My glasses are filthier than my iPad’s screen and I look upon the world through a slight blur. Like beer goggles, or a gaussian blur, or squinting one’s eyes for affect, it serves a purpose.
Smears and fingerprints is just another manifestation of the whole glare/glossy screen issue!
Some people are just so anal. The same who make a million adjustments before they can immerse themselves into the experience and even then, they suffer from deficiency creep, that gnaws at them until they are compelled to perform their adjustment ritual all over again.
But hey, that’s just me.
My iPad2 gets as dirty as did my original iPad. Charlie is correct about the screen being dirty. It’s going to happen. Only dopes act as though it doesn’t. Geez fanboys calm down. I doubt any of you even own one.
Silicone snake oil…
Venus passing in front Uranus will also keep iPads streak free.
Yes what you are saying is true except over time the time of the stylus will start picking the oil from your finger ( do not use the stylus all the time) and other crap. After about a couple months of use it start leaving smudges that lock exactly like the tip of the Stylus. They were extremely annoying to look at. I contact Griffin the maker of the stylus, they suggested wash the tip with dish soap. It still did not solve the problem. My own though on the solution is replace tips for the stylus at reasonable price.
Ah, the English pub toilet! Generally ughworthy I agree, but there are some fine exceptions.
Try The Feathers or The Bear in Woodstock, near Oxford, and you’ll be OK. Clean, dry, hand towels (fluffy) and/or Dyson Airblade-type dryers. Even hand creams for afters!
And (ahem) I don’t own shares in either establishment, just use ’em from time to time. Where client meets are concerned, I’m a stickler for niceness in the washroom dept.
I got a screen protector at Amazon.com. It’s matte finish, and very print resistant! I never have any problems.
get a grip! go to the auto parts store and buy a can of “mothers gold car wax” and you will have a pound of carnauba for cheap!
Actually the iPad2’s screen is a completely different to that of the original iPad. Not only does it not grease up like the first one, but it wipes very quickly and is far more responsive to light and general touch too.
Chapstick… Chapstick. .99 cents at your local drugstore.
Yak butter comes highly recommended. Getting it from the yak takes a little effort, however.
This is a new non-caloric,
silicon-based kitchen lubricant…
…my company’s been working on.
It creates a surface 500 times
more slippery than cooking oil.
Seriously,
I am thinking about trying a thin coat of regular carnauba car wax on the glass of my iPad.
My iPad is always with me and in use. I, probably, wipe off the screen at least 6 times a day! The grease, oils and fingerprints from my fingers really takes it toll on the glass screen.
When I apply it, I’ll just have to be careful to stay away from the iPad’s metal edges and the home button. I’ll lightly apply it use a clean sponge or foam applicator so I won’t scratch the glass like with a regular cloth.
I let everyone know if this helps or not and whether it affect the glass surface or not.
Just tired of constantly wiping this device off and I am not a big fan of the thin plastic protective films as I have noticed on my iPod touch that you do have to tap the screen a little harder with the film.
Looking to try any other solution that sounds reasonable.
I think this does.
I post feedback here if successful or not!
On my iPad 1, I use iKlear and some times Brillianize. I also use a microfiber cloth to wipe in between sprays. These products seem to allow my fingers to slip across the screen better. Less prints than without the spays. 🙂
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the white iPad 2 makes the illution that the screen isalway clean, that’s why I am not sure if the smart cover really cleans it!
Get a dog. Dogs are great for keeping the iPad clean. You can either have them lick the screen clean or you can wipe the screen on their fur. The smaller the dog the better fro the latter purpose.
This touchscreen concept with greasy dirty ugly greasy finger smears is a huge emarrasing problem. Yuk !
Now touchscreen monitor laptops are the upcoming rage.
Will someone figure out, or is it possible to sort out this problem, or are we all doomed to live in a world of greasy nasty screens, and endless wiping down, orwill we continue forced to pretend that oily, nasty snot grease fingerprints are all good, as in no problemo !