Your iPhone’s charging port is bound to collect a lot of dust and lint over an extended period of time. There can be many reasons behind this including the environment where you live, where you work, and more. A lot of dust and lint can also accumulate in the charging port if the pocket or bag where you keep your phone in is particularly dirty.

How Does a Dirty Charging Port Affect Your iPhone?

A dirty Lightning port will lead to accessories not connecting to your iPhone properly. Similarly, the Lightning cable might not fit properly leading to your iPhone not charging properly. There could also be a loose connection that could lead to data transfer failing when you connect your iPhone to your PC.

This can also cause plenty of other issues and it is recommended that you always keep your iPhone clean, especially since you use and carry it with yourself everywhere.

Clean Your iPhone’s Charging Port

Step 1: Turn off your iPhone. Do not try to clean the charging port with the device switched on.

Step 2: Take a toothpick and a piece of cotton. Wrap the cotton around the toothpick and insert it into the charging port. Do not jab the toothpick inside the port. Do it slowly and steadily as otherwise, you could end up damaging the port.

Step 3: Move the toothpick around to clean the port as much as possible. You will have to move the toothpick around multiple times to catch all the residual dust.