Minimizing a crack on the iPhone screen

[bball2]

Does anyone have any tips on minimizing the appearance of cracks on the iPhone screen? Theres a 2 inch hairline crack that goes halfway down the iPhone screen, really bugging me. It doesn't effect the touch screen functionality at all, and it isn't all that noticeable looking straight on, but definitely there when you look at it from an angle.

Anyone have any tips of minimizing its appearance? I know brasso works realy well on the iPods, so I was planning to give that a shot later today.

[Surf Monkey]

Pop the $200 and have Apple replace the glass. That's the only solution I can think of.

[Surf Monkey]

Oh, and DON'T use Brasso on the glass. You'll scrape the coating and make it look worse.

[deftdrummer1]

another great contribution by the surf troll. Obviously if paying $200 to fix it were no biggy he would do so and not mess around with brasso etc. Your double posting gives even more credence to your trolling nature Surf, get a life, or a wife...or maybe a hobby or something....43 and posting in forums on an hourly basis trying to talk down to kids 1/4 your age has gotta get old sometime I would think.

[jhollington]

Calm down please. If you have a problem with reading posts by certain other users, feel free to add them to your Ignore list in your profile. Cruising through the forums in a deliberate attempt to attack other users will not be tolerated.

Surf Monkey's response was not unreasonable. It's important to point out that there aren't likely to be any magic solutions to this problem before the OP damages their iPhone further by doing something like using Brasso (ie, brass polish) on glass.

Unfortunately, spending $200 to have the glass replaced may really be the only safe option here. The OP may not have $200, in which case their other option is to either live with it, or risk damaging their iPhone further.

[Surf Monkey]

Unfortunately, spending $200 to have the glass replaced may really be the only safe option here. The OP may not have $200, in which case their other option is to either live with it, or risk damaging their iPhone further.


Sad but true. Cracked glass is cracked glass. Not even those plastic injection treatments that you can have done to your car's windshield work very well. Sadly, the only way to restore the iPhone to pristine condition is to replace the glass, and that costs $200.

But I think the critical point is to let the poster know that it's a VERY bad idea to use Brasso or any other polishing agent on the glass. Not only is the touch screen made of glass, a material that the polish is not intended to be used with, it's covered in a polymer coating that will be damaged by using an abrasive on it. Never NEVER use polish on the iPhone's touch screen.