Invisible Life Hiding on Smartphone Screens, Study Reveals

‘We then carry them with us, on our phone screens, out of the toilet and into the rest of our house, where they may even be responsible for spreading disease,” McConomy said.

E.Coli is one of the germs that can be found in the bathroom. Previous research has also shown that smartphones can be covered in up to 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.

This comes as more than a third of people in the UK admit to never cleaning their smartphone, with one in 20 cleaning their phone less than once every six months.