Applying Screen Protectors (What is Best Way?)

[shirt]

Okay, which one of you has the secret to properly applying screen protectors?  Try as I might, I spend 20-30 minutes applying/removing/applying trying to get out the air bubbles.  I clean the phone well, use the card that comes with the protector to slowly press down the protector from one edge to the other as I'm applying it...blech...still have air bubbles.  Granted they are not huge, but still very visible when the phone is off.

So.....what is the secret?  Or is it a lost cause and I am just being too much of a perfectionist?

[kw83028]

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shirt wrote:

Okay, which one of you has the secret to properly applying screen protectors?  Try as I might, I spend 20-30 minutes applying/removing/applying trying to get out the air bubbles.  I clean the phone well, use the card that comes with the protector to slowly press down the protector from one edge to the other as I'm applying it...blech...still have air bubbles.  Granted they are not huge, but still very visible when the phone is off.

So.....what is the secret?  Or is it a lost cause and I am just being too much of a perfectionist?

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Well when I did mine, obviously I tried to make sure everything was clean, I slowly pressed from the center (holding the protector kind of curved up in a "U" off the surface so only the middle touched), moving outward. I don't know if that will solve the issue, but when I worked in a sign shop applying vinyl graphics to vehicles, that was the only way to avoid bubbles. So I tried that when applying my screen protector and it worked first try. It might have been luck. So give it a shot

[RonAnnArbor]

I applied mine from the top down, so that the holes line up properly -- apply a tiny piece of scotch tape at the lower right corner so you can lift and reapply from that corner.

I just lined up the top and then very slowly let the protector touch on the way down the iPhone -- I didn't get any bubbles in it at all -- it just took a little patience -- I was more upset that it took many many tries to get it to line up with the holes properly on the front of the iPhone screen for the earhole and the home key hole...

But it has now been on my iPhone since July 1st and works perfectly without one single problem, bubble, or guffaw in the past 8 months.

[DetroitCrow]

some have said to go into the bathroom with steam in the room to stop flying dust. I JUST put on my screen protector about 2 hours ago and I set the bottom part on (Where the home button is) and once the bottom edge lined up to the bottom of the phone and the circle lined up the best with the button, I then used a credit card to go up the phone as like a squeegy to go up the phone and it worked first try without one bubble.

Hope this helps.