Polish Out Scratches

[watercrawl]

Can one polish out a tiny scratch in the screen of the iphone 4?

BTW, that glass is not scratch proof by any means. I baby my phone and it's got a scratch already. It's getting a screen protector today....hopefully after I can remove the scratch.

 

[jfyrfytr25]

Can one polish out a tiny scratch in the screen of the iphone 4?

BTW, that glass is not scratch proof by any means. I baby my phone and it's got a scratch already. It's getting a screen protector today....hopefully after I can remove the scratch.

there is a coating on the screen to repel fingerprints. It is likely this is that is scratched and not the glass itself.

Howeever, if you try to buff that out, you will take off the coating and make the screen look awful. There is no way to take the coating off uniformly and others have stated that if you do get the coating off you are left with an awful rainbow effect to the glass.

Leave it alone, get a screen protector, and live with it. Anything you do to make it better will likely make it worse.

 

[SmackP]

Can one polish out a tiny scratch in the screen of the iphone 4?

BTW, that glass is not scratch proof by any means. I baby my phone and it's got a scratch already. It's getting a screen protector today....hopefully after I can remove the scratch.

Polishing does it's job by putting millions of microscratches.

Sometimes these microscratches can look quite ugly when held up in the light - much worse than the original scratch itself.

 

[maflynn]

If the scratches are on the front of the phone, I'd recommend against that as the front has the olephobic coating.

polishing something involves using abrasives, and so you'll scratch off the coating - possibly making matters worse.

 

[John T]

Can one polish out a tiny scratch in the screen of the iphone 4?

Not advisable unless you want to remove the oleophobic coating!