Can cleaning your iphone charging port with a pencil, break the chargining port?

I sometimes use my pencil to clean my charging port on my iphone. Like to ya know, take the dust out. Can this break the charging port? I think it might have, cause it's taking longer to charge, like way longer.

Yes it can do this. In the future I recommend picking up a can of air. It's basically a can of air with a little straw on the tip so you can spray a pressure blast of air into charging ports on phones, but then it works on computers, keyboards, and more to help get rid of small areas with a lot of dust built up. Search Air Duster Can on amazon and you'll get an example of what the cans could look like.

Uhh stop doing that first off. And invest in a dust plug for your phone. You can find them on ebay they are pretty cheap. A lot cheaper then breaking your phone and having to replace it because you thought shoving a pencil in it was a good idea.

I would stick anything in there.

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