Horrifying footage of phone under a microscope shows grim reality of how dirty they are

If you're one of those people who sleeps with their phone in their bed, this footage might make you rethink your decisions.

More or less everyone in the UK nowadays has a smartphone, and that's not an assumption - according to Uswitch, who found that 92 percent of Brits own one.

In the age of modern technology, everything is at your fingertips.

From staying in touch with friends to ordering food or Googling aimless questions that you want the answer to, it's all on your screens.

The microscope revealed something grim about your phone screen (Getty Stock Image)

But there's something else that's on all our screens too, though it's a lot more disgusting.

Experts have previously issued warnings out to people about how dirty your phones are, especially given how many times we pick them up during the day.

You'd think that we would keep these devices squeaky clean, given that we spend every day with our fingers all over them, but although we're advised to wipe down our phones daily, we somehow neglect this.

In fact, a study found that 51 percent of people never clean their smartphones.

So, what does this result in?

Well, a video has been doing the rounds on Reddit recently, revealing exactly what is on and in a dirty phone.

You might want to give your device a clean after seeing this (Getty Stock Image)

At first, the microscope reveals the pixels on a phone screen, nothing too out of the ordinary - but then, the view is switched to the front speaker of the phone, which can be covered in dust if not cleaned.

As it zooms in, microbes can be seen crawling around and through the holes, which look to be dust mites.

The subject prods his instrument at the dust, revealing through zoomed-in footage that the microbe is crawling down the metal, remember, this is what could be living in your phone speaker when you put it to your ear.

After this, they sample a fingerprint to be looked at under the microscope, revealing that there are germs that come from a regular fingerprint, let alone one that may not be the cleanest.

Sarah Latoria, APRN, primary care clinician at Northwestern Medicine, explained: "Chances are you’re not regularly getting sick from germs on your phone, but viral diseases like influenza and bacterial diseases like E.coli can spread through contact with a phone carrying viruses and bacteria."

Users in the comments shared what they thought of the eye-opening footage, as one said: "I’m fine with my unseen microbes and intend to keep them unseen."

Another pointed out: "They're just dust mites. Completely harmless."

While a third suggested: "I’m gonna assume those bugs are Demodex mites, and before anyone gets grossed out, they probably are in/around your hair as we speak! Yummers!"

They might be relatively common, but is this really what you want on your phones? Clean your phones, lads.