iPhone Screen Protector

[Composite Guru]

Dodsy said:

Slightly OT can someone explain why a screen protector is needed ? Ive had iphones for years my last iphone 6s was probably 4 years old when replaced with my current iphone 8 which is 13 months old.

Ive never had any marks or scratches on either phone , just an occasional wipe down to remove accumulated fingerprints.

My phone lives in my back pocket in a clear bumper type case to protect from being dropped which i do rather too regularly. It gets chucked on my desk , regularly flies off the car set and disappears into the footwell but never a mark on the screen

Im curious why the posters on this thread need to spend money protecting their screens? Have i just been very lucky for what must be 9 years of iPhone ownership going back to my old iphone 4

If your phone drops on the floor and hits something pointed like a stone then the impact is enough to crack the screen. #
The extra layer of glass acts as a load spreader and cracks that instead.

Its worked for me before. You may have just been lucky.

[WinstonWolf]

Dodsy said:

Slightly OT can someone explain why a screen protector is needed ? Ive had iphones for years my last iphone 6s was probably 4 years old when replaced with my current iphone 8 which is 13 months old.

Ive never had any marks or scratches on either phone , just an occasional wipe down to remove accumulated fingerprints.

My phone lives in my back pocket in a clear bumper type case to protect from being dropped which i do rather too regularly. It gets chucked on my desk , regularly flies off the car set and disappears into the footwell but never a mark on the screen

Im curious why the posters on this thread need to spend money protecting their screens? Have i just been very lucky for what must be 9 years of iPhone ownership going back to my old iphone 4

Two reasons, my phone lives in my pocket with my loose change and my keys; and if you drop it the glass ones crack but protect the screen.

[Tony1963]

I’ve had iPhones since the 3GS was launched, so 9½ years. I work in aircraft engineering, and they sit in my overalls pocket all day. I’ve never bothered with a screen protector, and by the time I buy a new phone, the old one has, at worst, a couple of very light marks that I can only see at certain angles. In my jeans or trousers the phone sits in my pocket with my wallet, keys etc in the other pocket.

I really don’t feel the need for screen protectors. It’s not as if the phone is worth a fortune after two or three years!

[Durzel]

Dodsy said:

Slightly OT can someone explain why a screen protector is needed ? Ive had iphones for years my last iphone 6s was probably 4 years old when replaced with my current iphone 8 which is 13 months old.

Ive never had any marks or scratches on either phone , just an occasional wipe down to remove accumulated fingerprints.

My phone lives in my back pocket in a clear bumper type case to protect from being dropped which i do rather too regularly. It gets chucked on my desk , regularly flies off the car set and disappears into the footwell but never a mark on the screen

Im curious why the posters on this thread need to spend money protecting their screens? Have i just been very lucky for what must be 9 years of iPhone ownership going back to my old iphone 4

My sister and her daughter both dropped their iPhones. Niece’s had a tempered glass protector on it, sister’s did not. Only one of them ended up with a cracked screen.

Also for my own part I recently replaced my screen protector as I’d managed to crack it somehow too, and when I removed it there were some scratches on it that would otherwise have likely been on the screen itself.

[h0b0]

Apple used to say on their website to not use screen protectors because they were of no value and ruined the experience. I see now they have given in and sell them at an extortionate rate.

[Tony1963]

Extortionate?

Lol. Funny.

[h0b0]

Tony1963 said:

Extortionate?

Lol. Funny.

I’d say $40 on their site and $8 on Amazon for something they used to say wasn’t necessary is a little expensive.

In fact, unless the screens have changed a lot and become lower quality, they are knowingly selling a product that is, by their own words, detrimental to your experience at 5X the cost. I’d suggest that’s close to extortionate. (Granted, not the dictionary definition as there is no strong arm tactics.)

We have 4 iPads and have had around 20 iPhones over the years. None have had screen protectors and none have had scratches even with the angry baboons we call children.