Does your smart phone look like it has seen better days? Are you tired of squinting at its display because of all the scratches? These days, cell phones have turned into a necessity rather than just luxury items. We depend on out mobile phones for many reasons such as communicating, listening to our favorite music, storing essential data, taking pictures or browsing on the Internet.
Carrying a bad looking phone is more than just unpleasant. This can actually have a negative impact on the quality of the device and its performances. Nevertheless, avoiding scratches and improving your iPhone appearance is not difficult. In the following guide you will learn how to prevent and remove scratches from your iPhone.
How can You Prevent Scratches?
One great way is to purchase an iPhone carcass. While some customers see them as needless and heavy, many find them perfect for when you want to keep the phone in a handbag or briefcase, where the device risks being squished or scraped by all kinds of sharp things. Many see the case as just another way to decorate their iPhone. For example, you can buy even exclusively personalized cases for the phone and luckily, even if your price range is rather limited, there are wide ranges of cost-effective carcasses that will not crack your pockets.
Similarly, phone skins are the fun and practical way to avoid scratching a vulnerable device, such as the iPhone. This is another method to change the appearance of your gadget in a wide range of different designs, all while saving the external layers from dirt, scratches and blemishes. These are also vital for customers who want to keep their phone protected while still making it possible to carry it in a jeans’ pocket.
When you are concerned about the phone’s frontal display, try buying a transparent protector for screens. These useful little pieces of plastic protect the screen from earmarks or fingerprints, as well as dirt and scratches.
You can have your iPhone safe while driving by setting up a mounting kit in the car. These are useful especially if frequently drop your phone in the mess under the seats. Such phone kits make sure that the iPhone is visible, all while maintaining a comfortable position for the driver. They also keep the cell phone well in its place despite the tight turns of the car. If vehicles are not your thing, then you can have also a kit set up on your motorcycle.
If the phone’s display looks terrible, do not give up yet. There are plenty of different products that can be effective against nasty scratches. Some producers pretend that their car polish will offer excellent results, while others use products like Displex and Apple’s Ice Creme. No matter which one you select, in many situations you can eliminate shallow scratches with sooth buffing, even if some creams might claim that there can be eliminated even a deep scratch with determination and long effort.
Effective Methods to Remove Scratches
An iPhone is not like every model of the iPod, because it has a glass screen on the frontal side. This type of display is Apple’s well-known measure to make their phones to resist most scrapes. Even if it is the scratch proof, the iPhone cannot really escape any damage or unpleasant lines that will gather over time. Because of this resistance to scratches, it is also incredibly hard to eliminate the scrapes on the iPhone.
Many of the methods tried by angry phone owners have proved not to be so efficient to remove or, at least, diminish the scrapes on their iPhone. Here are a few simple guidelines to get rid of the scrapes. However, be cautious when following these techniques so you will not make the scratches on the phone even worse.
If there are scrapes on the rear panel of your iPhone, one method to get rid of these is to use very find sandpaper and abrasive rubs. Carefully rub them on an affected part of the device, and pay attention not to rub and damage the anti-scratch layers of the phone. Here you will see fine and little scrapes on the iPhone, so you have to be extremely cautious on using the thin sandpaper when fixing the scrapes.
Toothpaste is also very efficient for eliminating the iPhone scratches. The toothpaste that is particularly for delicate teeth tends to work better when it comes to diminishing the scrapes. You can use this product as a light abrasive for a phone and it can fix tinier and slimmer scrapes on the carcass, as well. Below is what you have to do:
- Put a little glob of toothpaste right on the scratched surface of the phone.
- Rub it softly using a smooth fabric or with micro-fibers
- Let the toothpaste remain there for a couple of minutes to dry for a little bit.
- After this, clean the surface of the iPhone using light washing items, such as those that are ammonia free. A small quantity of detergent with moderate content will make it for a good cleaner, too.
- Polish and keep rubbing the scrapes for a little while to have the best result for the iPhone.
Be cautious when you use the toothpaste and pay attention for it not to get into the slots and gaps of your iPhone, since they can cause serious damages on the device. Even if it is said that prevention is the best cure, regardless of how you try it, it is very hard to avoid making deep scrapes to your phone. This is why you always have to keep it safe and perform the necessary operations to have an iPhone that seems brand new.
By following the tips listed above, you can make a scratched phone not to look so bad. Even more important, you can maintain them working for a longer period, enabling you to have fun with the countless functions of your iPhone for years to come.
Roxanne Briean
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