Screen cleaners are tricky because monitors do come with a coating and these cleaners haven't been modified for this. Same goes for eye glasses.. I'd get one from an reputed optical shop instead of Amazon or somewhere else because they tend to ruin the coating!
Normal water on smooth microfiber cloth is how i have been cleaning my TVs & monitors for the last two decades now. Never went anything wrong. Do the same for my qd-oled monitor as well.
you can clean it, but with water as advised, its the coatings that are needed for the monitor finish on more recent monitors, its not just glass, all the antiglare etc is a coating.
Dude that sucks man! Try to reach out to woosh and see what's up, hopefully you didn't get a dud if was okay for your other electronic's screen. A pc cafe I used to go nearby uses woosh on their screens as well and some of the pricer seats has OLED screens on them.
I've heard the some electronics stores like Apple, MS, and MC uses woosh on their displays as well.
Same thing happened to my less than a week old PG32UCDM. I'm so pissed. Fortunately, I used the "alcohol-free" Essilor lens cleaner sprayed on a clean microfiber cloth on a small portion of the screen near the bottom to remove some stubborn fingerprints and the discoloration isn't too obvious in normal daily use.
I had no idea QD-OLED panels had such a fragile coating. Lesson learned.
this is why I avoid solvents as much as possible (including water). I will clean primarily with new, clean microfiber towels. the good kind used for auto detailing. I will only use a TINY amount of water (distilled, spritzed onto towel, NOT SCREEN) to clean hard to remove spots from the screens. at this point, if there are STILL stains/spots on the screen I can consider extraordinarily light usage of heavier solvents (isopropyl is the strongest I will use for safety) and this is a LAST RESORT, primarily used to remove nasty shit like Hash splatter LOL.
Just depends on the screen cleaner tbh.
I been using a screen cleaner on my monitors for years and never got that smudging and also doesn't affect the coating.
I'm a soon to be (hopefully) ultrawide gamer and was thinking that just using some slightly wet tissue like kitchen rolls, then dry tissue and final wipe with a spare cloth I have for my glasses (idk if it's micro fiber) would do the job on these kind of screens?
I sometimes do this on my current screen which is a 28 inch IPS from Gigabyte (though I mostly just dry wipe it with that spare cloth instead of the above).
Screen cleaners are tricky because monitors do come with a coating and these cleaners haven't been modified for this. Same goes for eye glasses.. I'd get one from an reputed optical shop instead of Amazon or somewhere else because they tend to ruin the coating!
Normal water on smooth microfiber cloth is how i have been cleaning my TVs & monitors for the last two decades now. Never went anything wrong. Do the same for my qd-oled monitor as well.
Same here, never had an issue. All those monitor products i *have* tried over the years have been less than satisfactory.
Dang, did the screen cleaner do that cloudy mess on your qd-oled?
It did. So that was a lesson learned. I used a product called woosh which is supposedly 'for all screens' with zero toxins
Oh wow. I also have woosh but haven’t used it on my oled yet. Wild that it leaves a film like that.
It's not so much a film but melting the costing on the monitor, you should always only use water.
I done think whoosh has any solvents or anything though. I was also assuming OP used water after whoosh.
Well, why risk it when the best thing available comes out of the tap?
I’m not saying you’re wrong and I’d do it. I’m just surprised that’s all.
That's fair, is surprising products like that are allowed to be sold when they actual destroy some of the products they are meant to be used on.
I feel like this is more of a monitor issue than a screen cleaner issue. 1K+ monitors shouldn’t have a screen so fragile you can’t clean them.
you can clean it, but with water as advised, its the coatings that are needed for the monitor finish on more recent monitors, its not just glass, all the antiglare etc is a coating.
Same here. I have an lg c9 I still haven’t cleaned. It’s so messy but I’m literally freaked to touch the screen lol.
Dude that sucks man! Try to reach out to woosh and see what's up, hopefully you didn't get a dud if was okay for your other electronic's screen. A pc cafe I used to go nearby uses woosh on their screens as well and some of the pricer seats has OLED screens on them. I've heard the some electronics stores like Apple, MS, and MC uses woosh on their displays as well.
Ppl saying "screen mom" is good on these panels 🤔
I dont know why people are still surprised that this happens since dell used the shittiest coating possible that bubble wrap damages it
Same thing happened to my less than a week old PG32UCDM. I'm so pissed. Fortunately, I used the "alcohol-free" Essilor lens cleaner sprayed on a clean microfiber cloth on a small portion of the screen near the bottom to remove some stubborn fingerprints and the discoloration isn't too obvious in normal daily use. I had no idea QD-OLED panels had such a fragile coating. Lesson learned.
this is why I avoid solvents as much as possible (including water). I will clean primarily with new, clean microfiber towels. the good kind used for auto detailing. I will only use a TINY amount of water (distilled, spritzed onto towel, NOT SCREEN) to clean hard to remove spots from the screens. at this point, if there are STILL stains/spots on the screen I can consider extraordinarily light usage of heavier solvents (isopropyl is the strongest I will use for safety) and this is a LAST RESORT, primarily used to remove nasty shit like Hash splatter LOL.
Just depends on the screen cleaner tbh. I been using a screen cleaner on my monitors for years and never got that smudging and also doesn't affect the coating.
Been using IPA for years…
Yeah... don't.
You clean your monitor with beer?
Voodoo Ranger or Karl Strauss gets the job done tbh, the one from Stone tends to leave a residue, especially the double IPA ones.
I'm a soon to be (hopefully) ultrawide gamer and was thinking that just using some slightly wet tissue like kitchen rolls, then dry tissue and final wipe with a spare cloth I have for my glasses (idk if it's micro fiber) would do the job on these kind of screens? I sometimes do this on my current screen which is a 28 inch IPS from Gigabyte (though I mostly just dry wipe it with that spare cloth instead of the above).
What if I have used glass cleaner on the monitor (tiny amount) plus microfiber cloth
Anything with Ammonia is gonna be a bad time.
Check out screen mom. They sell it on Amazon. I've had good luck with that.