Best Screen Protectors — Tested Buying Guides and How-To Advice

Every new phone prompts the same question: do you actually need a screen protector, or is it just an accessory shops push at the till? The honest answer is that it depends on how you use your phone, what it…

A cracked screen protector has done its job — it took the damage so your screen did not have to. But a shattered protector with sharp edges and cloudy cracks is unpleasant to use and offers little further protection, so…

It is the most maddening sight in the screen-protector world: a perfect installation ruined by one tiny speck of dust sealed under the glass, sitting in a bubble that no amount of pressing will shift. Smoothing will not help, because…

Few installation problems are more frustrating than a tempered glass protector that simply will not bond. You lower it onto the screen, press, wait — and instead of the adhesive spreading smoothly to the edges, you are left with cloudy…

Screen protectors are meant to be cheap insurance — so when one comes off intact, it is tempting to ask whether it can simply go back on. Perhaps your case pushed a corner up, or you removed the protector to…

Liquid screen protectors are a very different creature from the glass and film protectors most people know. There is nothing to align, nothing to peel, and nothing rigid to crack — instead, you wipe on an invisible nano-coating that bonds…

A protector only earns its keep if it goes on straight, bubble-free and fully sealed — and Gadget Guard kits are designed to make that easy, with cleaning gear and, on many of their glass protectors, an alignment tray or…

It sounds like a reasonable job: your liquid glass screen protector looks cracked, so how do you remove it? The honest answer starts with a correction — a liquid glass protector cannot crack, because there is essentially nothing there to…

Cases with a built-in screen cover — the classic Otterbox Defender style — protect brilliantly and clean terribly. Pocket dust works its way inside, moisture fogs the inner surface, and within a few weeks you are looking at your phone…

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 11 look like close relatives — same 6.1-inch screen class, similar camera layout, launched just a year apart. So will an iPhone 12 screen protector fit an iPhone 11? Unfortunately not. The iPhone 12 introduced…