WD-40 might be terrible for your iPhone, but as well as stopping squeaks, it can clean printer cartridges and touch up stainless steel. From tomorrow, ALDI is selling a 300 gram can of WD-40 for $4.99, which is a keen price.
We recently pointed to a suggestion that WD-40 was a useful way of loosening a stuck iPhone home button. Several readers highlighted out potential downsides of that approach, and one in particular sticks out: the solvents in WD-40 will ruin the internals of the iPhone if they get inside.
Your iPhone (or other iDevice) has but one button you use constantly: the home button. It has many functions, and as a result it’s prone to becoming unresponsive. Designer Khoi Vinh has discovered that this problem is easily resolved with a little WD-40:
