Showing it to the daughter and granddaughter who are here on a visit, they got the bright idea to look into the charging and speaker ports of our iPhones. ?OMG! ?They were full of what I presume to be pocket lint.

We were able to clean out the charging port with a pointed wooden toothpick, a tiny brush, and compressed air.

It turned out to be impossible to clean out the speaker ports: ?they are just too tiny.

However - reason for this email - I remember seeing something like a special-purpose “putty” which you could gently push into those ports and when you pulled it back out, out came all the gunk;

Have any of you ever used this stuff? ?Anyone know what it’s called? ?

I found this…