hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and many of you have asked me what is the
best way to clean air pods and I wanted to show you what Apple recommends and
then give you a few tips that I've learned from cleaning these regularly
along the way now the first thing is you're going to need a few supplies one
of the things Apple recommends is a cotton swab or a q-tip so you'll want
one of these you'll also want 70% isopropyl alcohol you can get this
pretty much from any convenience store if you don't have it already and this is
used to clean kind of disinfect and clean the case and things like that also
they recommend a lint-free cloth so I've been using this cloth from iclear it's
what I clear I'll clean all of my phones with and I'll link all this stuff in the
description below so the first thing is to clean the case just use a little bit
of this and it's very important not to get the air pods wet according to Apple
they are not waterproof even though people have put them through the wash
and things and had them come out okay so you can just wipe it down like this
clean off any debris you might have as much as you can get using your fingers
to get into whatever spaces however they don't recommend sticking anything in the
Lightning port although sometimes these do get lint in them and you can swab
them out one of the recommended ways I've seen a lot of people use is the SIM
card removal tool and it's kind of dangerous to do that because there's
pins in here you can bend so you really don't want to do this aggressively be
very very gentle if you're gonna do that if you're not sure about it I would
recommend not doing that now let's remove the air pods out of here and mine
are pretty clean they occasionally have some debris on them but you'll see the
case itself Apple says do not stick anything sharp down here but you can
clean it with a cotton swab so you could just down in here clean these out maybe
use a little bit of alcohol everywhere around the case keep it clean that way
but to clean the air pods that get pretty gross from wax from your ears and
things like that there's not really a way to avoid that you can loosen some of
that wax using this with alcohol on it some of that rubbing alcohol just clean
that up and then if you need to get it out and it's kind of difficult to remove
I would recommend if you have a blast something plastic with a little bit
tip on it this is a spudger that's used to work on phones and things like that
but these are really inexpensive from Amazon so in order to clean these you do
not want to push on these mesh grilles you can break through them but if you
just move this tip along the outside edge you can clean out any wax or
anything you might have in there you want to do the same here and here but
dude do not push ever into these grilles you'll break them you just want to
remove any debris gently and then wipe it away using a q-tip or a cotton swab
you'll see mine are very clean that's how I clean these and every so often you
need to go back and clean some of the wax that gets in there you can have the
cleanest ears and you'll still have this problem also as a last resort
I have used this SIM card removal tool I don't recommend it unless you have
nothing else but again drag it carefully across this mesh or you'll poke right
through it you just need to be very careful when you're doing that so that's
really it if you want to keep these clean and then disinfect them you can
use the rubbing alcohol to do that as well and that seems to do a good job and
that's really it just maintain them like that and keep them clean and you
shouldn't have any issues and of course your audio will sound better because
it's not clogged up or anything like that so that's it for cleaning these if
you have any other tips or tricks I'd love to hear what you have to say in the
comments below I have a stain on this and I can't
remove it you'll see right there so I'm kind of stuck with that but that's
really it for the most part they're nice and clean and disinfected let me know
your thoughts in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already please
subscribe and like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next
time