iPhone 7+ camera cover

[satoshi17kun]

I saw a couple of my friends put glass protector on their iPhone camera. Does any of you guy use one too? I don't think it's necessary but then again most of my previous iPhones have somescratches on the bodies due to my carelessness.

Also, it seems to me that out of the box, the camera is already covered by a thin plastic. Or are my eyes playing trick on me and it's just part of the len?

 

[T5BRICK]

It's a sapphire lens with an antiglare coating. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Webb]

A nice case would protect the lens.

 

[44267547]

I saw a couple of my friends put glass protector on their iPhone camera. Does any of you guy use one too? I don't think it's necessary but then again most of my previous iPhones have somescratches on the bodies due to my carelessness.

Also, it seems to me that out of the box, the camera is already covered by a thin plastic. Or are my eyes playing trick on me and it's just part of the len?

Never needed any protectors. It's sapphire and is highly scratch resistant. I have never scratched any of my lens covers on any of my iPhones.

 

[akash.nu]

Contrary to popular belief, the camera cover is not sapphire.

 

[macTW]

It's sapphire. Clearly someone falls for click-bait view-grabbing videos. There are many better videos proving it is sapphire. They just succeed because of fact not deception.

 

[greatness]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13160180/apple-iphone-sapphire-camera-lens-analysis
http://www.imore.com/yes-iphone-7-lenses-really-are-made-out-sapphire

It may not be the consistency of sapphire from high end watch surfaces (if you own a Rolex, Omega, IWC, too many to list...) but the cover lens is indeed sapphire. The verge article is one of many- I believe what we need to discuss is the difference between "scratching" and "fracturing."

 

[maflynn]

[MOD NOTE]
This thread was derailed and devolved into bickering. Please stay on topic.

 

[kdarling]

I will search for the videos I saw, but to your point about it being poor quality... the more contamination, the stronger the glass is in resisting fracturing.

Sapphire isn't glass. Moreover, in this test it did not resist fracturing.

Apple then uses a scratch-resistant coating to make up for the increased scratch vulnerability. Best of both worlds for a camera lense.

There is a coating, but it's anti-reflective, not anti-scratch. The scratch resistant part is supposed to be the sapphire.

In the end, I think it doesn't matter too much. I think I'd worry less about scratches and more about outright shattering if I drop it