Are you cleaning your headphones and earbuds enough? I don't mean using your fingernail to pick out wax buildup in your earbuds' eartips, but actually cleaning them? Cleaning your headphones and ...

Whether in-ear or over-ear, there are rules. Headphones are one of those pesky tools we use nearly every day but treat pretty poorly. They're dropped, dragged, tangled, one gets lost (anybody who's ...

Filthy buds look bad, impact sound quality, and even risk infection. WIRED asked the experts how to correctly banish that ear gunk. But are my yellowing Airpods actually a risk to my health? I asked ...

Everyone has dirty ears; the human ear is designed to produce earwax to protect itself from other junk getting in there, among other things. That means that the more you put your precious new AirPods ...

How's this for an unsettling fact? According to cleaning expert Lana Tkachenko, your earbuds can contain way more bacteria than your kitchen sink, one of the germiest places in a home. But while your ...

Let’s be honest—most of us don’t clean our earbuds until they look really gross. But did you know that earbuds can harbor more bacteria than a kitchen cutting board? Yup, that close-to-your-eardrum ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Google Pixel Buds app will soon remind you to give your earbuds a clean after 120 hours of wear-time. The ...