The ZAGG invisibleSHIELD for iPhone

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Four days ago, I ordered the invisibleSHIELD at the invisibleSHIELD Germany GmbH, which arrived today – though the website told me something about 1 – 2 work-days.

After I got it, I unpacked it and read the sparse held documentation within the packaging about how to put it on my iPhone. I was not sure, whether I understood the few pictures right, so I searched on YouTube for a documentation video and found a couple. I looked at two or three and saw that everyone did it the same: Wash hands, turn iPhone off, clean it, spray hands with the solution shipped with the invisibleSHIELD, spray the foil with the solution, “just put it on the iPhone”, press out the solution from the center to the edges and wait until it dries.

And so I did. The first thing I’ve seen was: It’s a total crap to handle the foil. When it’s wet, you can’t really position it, but if you don’t, it will look odd when it dries. If you finally positioned it the right way and start pulling out the liquid using a credit-card or something else, it repositions again. Oh great. You take it of for several times and put it on again and then you finally have it! The middle dried out, it’s nearly “glued”, it’s good positioned and you can start “glueing” the sides. But now really just says “Hello!” again and you remember, that in real life, there is not room without tiny whiny dust-particles. You look at the already glued center of your foil and see that only half of the dust you see there can be removed – the other half lies beneath. Oh great!

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Since it would totally over-stretch and destroy the foil, if you would take it off again, you just say to yourself “it’s not thaaaaaaat baaaaad” and just keep on going. You try to glue the edges, what seems to be pretty much impossible, since the cuts aren’t physically right done to make the foil bend the way it would need to. So you try and try and try and …. still it doesn’t work. It just doesn’t. However, it already pissed myself, and I thought of taking it off again and sending it back, but I though.. “ghnar, I don’t want an iPhone case!”. So I took a hair-dryer and warmed the edges to make them less restive. After I finally finished the whole thing, Mr. Reality walked by again and said “Hello!” – again, in real life, there’s no room without dust. Because of this, the sticky foil-edges started to look more and more flooded by little particles of dust – even more than usual, since I had to use a dryer to get the foil into the form it needed to have. Ouff.

Altogether, I’m very, very, very disappointed of the result and I’m lucky I’ve searched and found videos showing how to remove the foil again before starting the whole thing. I can’t believe I really paid €19,16 + €3,64 shipment for something like this.

My advice to everyone who would like to protect his iPhone against scratches: Just be careful. Try not to let it fall down or let other things fall onto it. You won’t become happy with such a foil.