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iPhone 6+ with polarized sunglasses = junk

nateo200 said:
Does this to my 5c as well and when my 6 arrives I expect the same....not gonna blame the phone and neither should you...I love my Oakley's and I love my iPhone's...just gotta except that sometimes they might not get along! For what its worth when I'm on my bike and I look down at my bike computer I usually look below the coverage of the sun glasses so I don't expect it to be an issue once I mount my phone on my bike. I also have polarized filters for my digital camera that do this so no surprise. Can you change the lenses out? I have a pair of Rudy Projects and 3 different sets of lenses, polarized regular, clear (for overcast but to project eyes from bugs and wind), and regular shade lenses.
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Yeah, the Oakley glasses can change lenses very easily. I'll see how annoyed I get and look at that option if I am going crazy.

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profanum said:
Mine looked exactly like that when I had one of the wet install screen protectors on it. I switched to a glass protector and now it looks normal again.
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Thanks for the suggestion. What kind of glass protector do you have? I will probably go with that. I'll mark this as resolved. Turns out screen protector is the culprit. Maybe they improved the view with polarized lenses, but they sure made it worse with the screen protector I am using. Never saw this on old phones with same brand screen protector.
 
Never ran a screen protector on my 5s or my 6. I wear Oakley Rx glasses that are polarized. With my 5s the screen was distorted but with my 6 you wouldn't know I was wearing polarized lenses. No problem with the 5s, got used to it and to tell the truth I didn't even notice the 6 was clear until I read this thread the other day and checked it out. Since I change between normal Rx glasses and the polarized Oakley Rx glasses I hadn't even noticed. Thanks for pointing it out! :D
 
bigbrowntruck said:
Hey everyone. Thanks for checking your Apple devices. Turns out the screen protector was causing it. I pulled it up and checked again and it is same as iPhone 5. Its weird, my iPhone 5 has a screen protector and looks just fine. I have SPIGEN Flex HD screen protector, so you might want to avoid this one if you are using polarized glasses. Not sure how other screen protectors fair. Maybe some of you with screen protectors and polarized glasses can post results with screen protector brand/model so others won't run into this.

Thanks all!
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Please update your original post.
 
I can detest that this is not the case. When I wear my prescription polarized sun glasses I can see my iPhone 6 much better than my old 4S. It's not perfect, but much better. I can even see my iPad 3 with them.
 
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