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.
Not really. Glass is glass is glass. Regardless of ceramic shield or gorilla glass victus. It all scratches the same. A glass screen protector is a sacrificial piece. It takes the scratches that 100% still would scratch your phone screen. If the thing scratching the screen protector is hard enough to scratch it would scratch your screen.