iPhone 11 screen scratches

my wife and me have put our brand new iphones 11 inside our pocket pants and both screens get scratched the second day of use (mines right in the selfie camera, apple says “without mal function”...). Has someone experimented somethg similar? We are really dissapointed, apple only cares if you have bought “apple care”....we cant use the screen without a protection: worst screen ever....👎


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Posted on Sep 25, 2019 8:01 PM

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Posted on Apr 20, 2021 5:40 PM

Older smartphones had more scratch resistant, but more brittle glass.


Since people don't like paying $300 to replace their glass when dropping their phone a foot, cell phone makers overall (not just Apple) moved to formulas that are more shatter-resistant but are slightly more scratch prone.


This issue is solved with a $20 screen protector; you can't apply something for $20 that will stop your screen from shattering in a fall.

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Nov 13, 2019 11:55 AM in response to bcalvanese

Day 5 now and still not even a hint of a scratch. I have been putting it in my pocket and pulling it out of my pocket like crazy. I have even been wiping the screen back and forth across my shirt and pant leg to wipe off the finger prints, and still no scratches.


So far this makes absolutely no sense to me at all.


I did get an official Apple leather case for it today in case I drop it, but no screen protector (i hate those things).


Very puzzling...???

Nov 13, 2019 11:55 PM in response to lessien700

I dropped mine as it slipped out of my hand as I picked it up, a fall of about 4 inches, and it shattered. Below the a link to Apple's Official Commercial on their Official YouTube channel. I find it misleading as it shows the phone surviving much higher falls. It also show the phone being dropped into a bag with lots of other items giving the impression it's ok to do the same. Not Good....

Nov 14, 2019 7:58 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

That's irrelevant example. More realistic for our case would be get new car which advertised as "the strongest painting ever" instead of previous model of same vendor. And then after washing in same place which you have used few years with you previous vehicle you will find lot of scratches appeared. Old model never experienced anything like that.

That's how most of us feeling now.

Nov 14, 2019 2:34 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Getting tired of being told its a user to user form, and no matter what we post its meaningless.


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Nov 14, 2019 3:50 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

It seems that you are simply protecting the company again. It's your job.


But if you want to be objective, then speak on behalf of happy people whose screen does not scratch the air. But do not criticize those who met defective merchandise.


By the way. In Finland, in some top stores, some modifications of the iphone 11 (pro, max) have never appeared since the start of sales. Not a single unit. They talk about the problem with the mail. But I doubt it. Maybe Apple just stopped delivering certain shipments.


I look forward to fixing scratching frankly bad screens. Which are even scratched in the showroom. Fingers of guests. This is a company mistake. To show in the advertisement a harsh treatment with a telephone that he cannot stand in ordinary life.

Nov 14, 2019 4:30 PM in response to MatiasMB

Holy StIGMATa of the IPHOne, Yes. Same here. the scratches are just happening effortlessly. I thought perhaps there was a manufacturer protective sticker over the screen that I had not figured how to remove .. like on your car stereo.. I even went to the At&t store and I said “is there like a screen on here that I don’t know how to take off” I couldn’t believe that these scratches!! all my other iPhones I’ve had for a year each time and I’ve never had this occur EVER .. and all these scratches is the first week and more the second .. at this rate .. the phone is going to split in half.. or maybe the my screen scratches will strike gold or better yet water.

Nov 14, 2019 5:12 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Why some people who ”used screen protector on every iPhone” are so eager to tell that we shouldn’t address this serious material failure here? This is not about you - and you haven’t helped anyone. You haven’t told anything we wouldn’t know. Almost all of us who are having this problem in our iPhone 11’s are long long term loyal Apple users and we have seen very clearly ourselves that the glass in 11gen gets scratches extremely easily, while previous models we had did not. So just to help you - stop interfering a matter that is not you matter. This is just a free advice, I’m not going

to buy this forum quite yet.

Nov 15, 2019 4:33 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Oh Will. Please take a look this commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4p6njjPV_o - I have no cat, I'm not keeping phone in bag (pay attention - that's woman's bag - lot of stuff here - you can built nuclear reactor using average woman's bag). I just keep my iPhone in the pocket - just like shown in this AD. Why it is my fault? Looks more like Apple misleading in this AD.

Nov 15, 2019 9:10 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Will, your super keen on 🍏Wish I had this sort of loyalty from my clients!


The ad shows the phone being dropped into a handbag with other stuff. It’s reasonable to assume the other stuff is what is normally carried in a handbag - keys and alike. It’s not reasonable to expect a consumer to freeze frame the ad to ascertain what’s in the bag.


Whats in no doubt is that the ad shows the phone being dropped from a sideboard amongst other places - as I told you mine shattered when it slipped from my hand back into the windowsill that I’d just picked it up from. About 3 inches no more than 4...well short of waste height shown in the ad. That’s crazy!


If you can’t drop it don’t show it being dropped simple!



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