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Is tin foil safe to use on an iPad 2?
iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1
safe for what? to wrap it in like leftover pizza, as a makeshift cable to connect to the charger, to make it a hat to keep people from reading it's thoughts?
-mvimp
safe for what? to wrap it in like leftover pizza, as a makeshift cable to connect to the charger, to make it a hat to keep people from reading it's thoughts?
-mvimp
Like the above user said, what are you trying to do with it?
Depends on the purpose ...
Cleaning the screen? Nope, unless you like a hazy view.
As an antenna to boost wi-fi? Not in the slightest.
As gift wrap? I suppose, but kinda cheap looking.
Use as an impromptu cover or case?
Metal on metal, even as thin as tinfoil is won't be pretty. You'll start to see micro scratches...not to metion that tinfoil is incredibly delicate.
I will make it very simple. No. Keep tin foil away from your iPad. That is an accident waiting to happen.
no i want to use it as a stylus, and i have a screen protector so im not worried about scratches. i want to know if one day my ipad will die on me because im using tin foil.
The screen won't die, but it won't work. It needs a capacitive touch, and foil would be a 100pct conductor. Test it yourself with a paperclip.
Buy a cheap stylus, and if you like how it works, get a good one. I was hot for one at first, but after using it, I got used to the keyboard and my fingers. The stylus is buried in the bottom of a drawer, unused.
The tin foil does work, i tried it but i wanted to check to see if it would ruin my ipad 2. Plus, most styluses these days are like $15- $20 each 😟
First, unless you have some unusual Frankensteinian powers, your iPad is already dead. Unless you want to start Skynet, please do not bring it to life.
Second, I do not know if you can find tinfoil. Aluminum foil, yes, but tinfoil has not been in common usage for quite some time.
laundry bleach wrote:
Second, I do not know if you can find tinfoil. Aluminum foil, yes, but tinfoil has not been in common usage for quite some time.
Like the beaver, it was brought close to extinction because of it's popularity as a hat making material.
laundry bleach wrote:
Second, I do not know if you can find tinfoil. Aluminum foil, yes, but tinfoil has not been in common usage for quite some time.
If ya lived in Picksburg, PA ... yinz would know that we still use tin foil, gum bands (rubber bands), we drink pop (soda or any carbonated beverage) and if yinz live in Es...liberty ya just might woof dahn a chipped ham (a delightfully disgusting ham that is greasy as can be but remains a Pittsburgh favorite) samwich and then head dahn ta Pants 'n 'at to do some shopping.
All that I am saying is that it depends upon where you live. It will always be called tin foil around here.
BTW .. if you care to interpret the "Pittsburghese" dahnload the Yinzer app.
My parents were born in 1918. They always called it "tin foil" because, I suspect it was back then. I struggle not to say tin foil.
If you managed to afford an iPad, you should be able to scrape $20...?
Most likely not, it was probably a choice between food for the week and the iPad.
What I don't understand is he doesn't use a thumb tack, much more accurate in selecting different things. Plus you can pick up a pack of like 50 for the price of one stylus, that means if you loose one you have 49 more.
Is tin foil safe for ipads?
