i have heard this before and i’m curious what you guys think, if you have any anecdotal experience. i have heard, and this makes some sense to me, that because it is a separate piece of glass that can be easily peeled off of the screen and it is not laminated to anything for more strength, that glass screen protectors are inherently much easier to crack and shatter than a bare screen, or a screen with a thin TPU film screen protector. this gives people the impression with how often phones get dropped and how often glass screen protectors break, that most or all of those drops would have damaged their screen if they didn’t have a glass screen protector.
ever since i got my first smartphone, which was a galaxy S5 when it was new, i have only used glass screen protectors, but i am now trying out TPU for the first time, and how thin they are makes me nervous that i’m going to drop my s22 ultra and destroy the screen and regret it. am i worrying myself for nothing? i know that phone screens are definitely not indestructible. many bare phone screens have been broken from drops even if they were in a case.
A glass screen protector is a sacrificial piece. In an impact it will take the damage and crack. In day to day usage it will scratch instead of your screen. Glass is glass is glass. Ceramic shield, gorilla glass victus ++, super ultra cool fun time, ECT… it’s all glass. It all scratches at level 6 and deeper grooves at level 7 (thanks Jerryrigeverything). A glass screen protector is meant to feel premium and not plasticy like a plastic screen protector.
Not going to lie, the TPU one that is on my phone and now feels almost as premium as glass. In fact, under my thumb, it feels the same, It feels slick like glass. It only feels plasticy or rubbery if I try to drag my fingernail across it. I’ve only done this gently, as I don’t want to intentionally scratch or gouge it.