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How careful do you have to be with the cape cod cloth? Would a slip of the hand leave you with horrible scratched glass?

You can use masking tape on the glass, but you don't have to worry - the Cape Cod cloths actually don't have any abrasives, it's just a very good metal polish (that smells like vanilla) impregnated into soft polishing cloths.

For deeper scratches on my stainless steel watches, I use a range of 3M papers from coarse to smooth and finish off with Fabulustre Jewelers rouge polishing cloth or Cape Cod for a mirror finish.
 
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Good question.

On the Apple Watch it isn’t such a worry because of the sapphire screen. It’s REALLY scratch resistant.

I’m gonna guess that you’re going to have to be careful on the iPhone X.
I buy those same presoaked cape cod towels on Amazon for my stainless steel Apple Watch. You have to be careful not to touch the screen because it’ll take that oleophobic coating right off. It’s not too hard to avoid the screen, though, as the towels are quite small. For the iPhone X you could even cut a small strip off the towel to run along the stainless steel band so you have more control and don’t touch the glass.
 
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For all you naked users try this case.

https://www.amazon.com/TOZO-Thinest...&qid=1508167775&sr=1-3&keywords=tozo+iphone+x

https://www.amazon.com/TOZO-iPhone-Plus-Case-Semi-transparent/dp/B01M0I7CR9

It really is barely there. Adds almost no bulk and are really cheap. I buy two at a time to keep my 8 plus looking fresh.

Now put some clothes on...

The naked users are naked for a reason, they want their phones to be shown as intended. I do not think they want even the tiniest of cases!

All the power to them though, I have kids around the house so I do not take chances being naked!
 
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For all you naked users try this case.

https://www.amazon.com/TOZO-Thinest...&qid=1508167775&sr=1-3&keywords=tozo+iphone+x

https://www.amazon.com/TOZO-iPhone-Plus-Case-Semi-transparent/dp/B01M0I7CR9

It really is barely there. Adds almost no bulk and are really cheap. I buy two at a time to keep my 8 plus looking fresh.

Now put some clothes on...
No thanks.

I don’t like cases, and I don’t like screen protectors. I don’t like anything messing with the look and feel of the phone.

Nothing wrong with cases, of you like them, or if you’re prone to dropping them, or for no reason at all. But they’re not for me.
 
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