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Tig Bitties

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Per the highly rated reviews, I bought this tempered glass screen protector for my iPhone 12 Pro Max;


I love how it covers the full phone, notch and all. The product itself seems EXCELLENT, and the packing was great, and comes with the guard to help put the protector on properly. Overall this is a very high end protector, and was exactly what I was looking for. Seems top notch pretty much perfect.

But ugh, I screwed up installing it. I cleaned the phone well I thought, and then went to lay it on the screen, and the first half sucked down perfect, and was looking awesome, then the last 1/3rd of the screen had a few little bubbles, I went to fix that, but made it worse, making it actually dirty underneath, and those bubbles, that were just a couple, turned into 7 or 8 little bubble dots, that I can't get rid of whatsoever.

But the FLOLAB product itself I think was GREAT, it's the perfect size and shape for the 12 Pro Max, it just didn't isntall so smoothly for me.

Does the Apple store or BestBuy sell full coverage screen protectors, that they can apply for me? I don't like the ones with the notch cutout.
 
I don't know if this applies to you, but you can still take it off and give it another shot. My protector was skewed about a degree to the left and couldn't figure out how it happened. Later I realized that what I had assumed (considering the text) to the the top of the tray was actually the bottom, and as such I had placed it misaligned slightly. I only realized this as I was installing the protector on another phone and this time I had my eye on the alignment, and realized that no matter how perfect I got it, it wasn't aligned. It was only after I flipped the tray around did I get the perfect alignment. At that point, I was like whatever, let me try to install it again on my phone. To my utter surprise, it came off without a hitch, made sure there was no dust, flipped the tray around, and it was perfect. Mind you the screen protector had been on for over a month. Shocked it came off so easily and perfectly is an understatement. As such, try to remove it, maybe you'll have good luck too.
 
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What I've always done when I've had issues with bubbles/dust is wrap a piece of scotch tape around two fingers and just tap tap tap away until you're able to get it to lay flat/clean. This is much easier with the flexible type but should still work with the rigid glass.
 
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