About 2 months ago I wrote about trying a tempered glass screen protector. I'm going to say they work great. I'm a fan of the Omoton brand ones, they make them for almost every glass fronted device.
About 2 weeks into iPhone stewardship, my 9-year-old texted to report her first screen break. I was concerned and highly interested — did just the protector break, or the phone's actual screen? The screen protector worked wonderfully, it shattered but stuck to the undamaged screen. The phone remained usable even with the protector cracked. When next I saw her, we replaced it with the 2nd in the 2-pack and off on her merry way she went.
I was actually putting the wrenches back in their plasti-form wrench box neatly for once. One slipped from my hand and struck my waiting iPhone midscreen. A small impact spot, like a bullet shot, had several spiderweb veins reaching across the protector. Screen undamaged.
Over the holidays my daughter was off on the east coast with her mother's family. I got call telling me she'd need a new screen protector but everything was OK. Seems her phone went down a flight of stairs. I went back to Amazon and splurged on another $7.00 set of 2 for her phone.
Not everything went wrong that could go wrong during my VW Vanagon Westfalia adventure to an oasis in the deserts of northern Baja Mexico, but a hell of a lot that didn't have to did. During a trip that involved as much bad judgement as beautiful vistas, I dropped my phone on more than a few rocks and only the FSM knows what else. 2 impact cracks on the very edges of screen protectors bezel worked to spare the screen 2 certain deadly cracks. The micro-pre-cracked glass construction really appears to work, the kinetic force of these strikes was redirected in what looked like miraculous ways.
I'm a fan. I think 4 screen replacements would have cost me $400, these were around $30 all in. I'm fairly certain each break looked likely to have chipped or cracked the actual phone had the protector not been there. They've also saved us having the Phones actually worked on and potentially destroyed! Mark once told me it was easy to replace my own screen. I ended up needing a whole new phone when I was done.
OMOTON Tempered Glass Screen Protectors via Amazon
