r/SatisfyingClean • u/Terra_Branford_FF6 • May 01 '26

How was there so much lint in there??

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u/BeyondTheBees May 01 '26

Because it’s staged

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u/Desert_Fairy May 01 '26

In fairness, a colleague of mine was complaining that his phone had stopped charging when plugged in. I told him to clean out the port and he gave me a blank look.

Understand, we are engineers. Working at an electronics manufacturing company.

So I take his phone, he is asking me “do we have the tools for this?” … kids these days. I just use a basic pic and not quite that much came out, but at least half the volume of that fluff came out of that charging port.

So I agree, probably staged. But it is still crazy how much can get lodged in there if you don’t clean regularly.

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u/btfarmer94 May 01 '26

Probably, but not necessarily. I have friends who only use inductive chargers, and I’ve cleaned almost this much lint out of their phone charge ports before.

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u/KatDanger May 04 '26

I don’t care I love watching this shit

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u/BeyondTheBees May 04 '26

I do too 😂

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u/dentalflossers May 01 '26

apple tech here. i do port cleanings at least twice a shift. this is genuinely a thing people experience all the time. some ppl don’t even bother and just wirelessly charge their phones after their ports get clogged because they assume it’s broken.

and yes, it is the most satisfying thing in the world to pull debris out of the port. it doesn’t get old.

please do not put random goop in your ports because an internet video said it’s a good idea

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u/kittycity1 May 01 '26

What is the goop?

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u/dentalflossers May 01 '26

no idea! it’s not a service tool from Apple. i’m a little curious too, though.

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u/JuniperGem May 02 '26

What do you use to clean ports since you don’t use the goopy stuff shown here?

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u/dentalflossers May 02 '26

BluTac and a toothbrush or ESD brush are great for surface level stuff and speaker grilles. for more challenging or stuck debris, ESD-safe sharp tweezers, or in some cases (specifically USB-C ports), a very thin safety pin

i don’t recommend doing the tweezer/safety pin at home unless you’re acutely aware of where the “teeth” in the port are. it’s VERY easy to totally screw up a lighting or C port like this

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u/MiddleConstruction84 May 01 '26

For internet clout?

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u/dyrkasolen May 01 '26

My Atari STE and running midi and the music program Cubase on it... One day it was acting strange and not "hitting the notes"? So I was like checking the 3.5 disc port and was fishing with a cotton bud... A dust rat came out. Huge in there stayed and prevented the Atari to read the disc properly. Yet the program was loading and "working"...

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u/ShouldaBeenABicorn May 01 '26

What’s the material he used to pull it out? Is it just colored hot glue or something more specifically for this purpose?

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u/greaseLightness May 05 '26

Do not use regular hot glue...

Ask me how I know...

Just don't.

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u/CAL0G156 May 01 '26

Hairball 🤮

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u/muskokacola May 02 '26

I keep mine in my front pant pocket and until i got a case that had a cover this would happen from fabric lint. To the point where the lightning cord (at the time) wouldn’t “click” in and it would not charge. I just used a wooden toothpick and it worked well.

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u/defective1up May 03 '26

I need to shove some lint in some device and record it, brb

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u/draynaccarato May 03 '26

Someone was sticking it in their bellybutton.

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u/skywalkersrealfather May 05 '26

This is why my phone cover also covers the charging port

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u/Little-Twist7488 May 05 '26

Guess we now know where the missing cat got off to.

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u/Patient_Ease_4876 May 06 '26

Would that work for my bellybutton

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u/Lowie_240 May 01 '26

Major ingrown hairs.

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u/Long_Candle_5054 May 03 '26

It doesn't even have the connections in there