A bit of anti-glare coat came off. Is there a way to repair it?

[britpoprule]

Hi everyone.
Yesterday I was cleaning the screen of my macbook pro 13'' retina early 2015. All of a sudden I see a tiny scratch and I tried to find out if it's removable or if it's a real scratch. I guess I used the cloth a little harder because I later noticed a stain around the scratch, so I suppose that I removed the anti-glare coat around the scratch, which is annoying.
People on youtube remove the whole anti-glare coat, but I wish it was possible to do the opposite, to add the the anti-glare coat in the parts where it came off. Any advice? Is it worth to replace the screen with the staingate replacement program? Do they provide a new screen with the problem fixed? Or it's the same screen which later will have the same problem?
Is the anti-glare coat really useful? Or once removed it's almost unnoticeable that it's not there?
Thank you

 

[Cookie18]

It may be different where you are but I believe the screen replacement program for staingate is no longer active as all of the models affected are now over 4 years old. I've done the anti-glare removal on a few of these MacBooks and it is much better, there's no way that I know of to replace the coating yourself. The screen looks great with the coating removed, like new for me. I only use my MacBook Pro with the coating removed indoors but I haven't experienced any downsides to removing the anti-glare coating.

 

[Fishrrman]

"Yesterday I was cleaning the screen of my macbook pro 13'' retina early 2015. All of a sudden I see a tiny scratch and I tried to find out if it's removable or if it's a real scratch. I guess I used the cloth a little harder because I later noticed a stain around the scratch, so I suppose that I removed the anti-glare coat around the scratch, which is annoying"

You have just learned a hard lesson about "cleaning the screen".

You need to read up on "StainGate".

I realize this sounds ridiculous, but the WORST THING YOU CAN DO with MacBook Pros (with retina displays) is to "clean the display" very much or with too much pressure.

The retina display has a VERY THIN coating that is "sprayed on" (it's just particles that are affixed to the surface of the panel).
Just about ANYTHING you do to the surface will start "wearing" on these particles.

There is NO WAY POSSIBLE to "repair" the display.
It can only be "replaced".

If the wear gets too bad, some folks claim to have had success by rubbing off THE ENTIRE ANTI-GLARE COATING. As you have seen, there are videos on how they did this.

If you have a brick-n-mortar Apple Store nearby, you could take it to them and see if they would cover you under the display replacement program.
The chances aren't great (because of the age of the MPB, as Cookie mentions), but it wouldn't hurt to try.