Matt screen protector degrading quality of iPad screen

[0992672]

I bought a matte Screen protector from Amazon. The texture is great to write with the Apple Pencil but the screen protector really degrades the beautiful iPad retina display. Especially when I am on white background I kind of see rainbow like pixels all over the screen,screen quality looks really bad what are your thoughts on this.
Even on notability(Note taking app for iPad) it's really bad if I set the page color to white but I can use if the page color is black.
1) do you think I should try to live with the screen quality for the texture or do you think it's better for me to return the product to Amazon?
2)Do all Matt screen protectors protectors have this problem?

 

[johnnytravels]

Well they obviously degrade the image quality of your screen, given how they work by texturizing an even surface with a fine grained structure. This dotted surface increases friction, giving it a paperlike feel, and refracts rays of light, making the screen less reflective in direct lighting. However, unfortunately, this also works works the other way around. Given that it naturally must be a surface permeable to light, it not only disperses light shining onto the display from the outside, but also the light from within. It refracts the light that the screen emits, resulting in a moiré like pattern, and a visible decomposition of white into individual colors. Some matte protectors are better, some are worse (the most expensive ones, like the Paperlike 2, however, are not really better than products half its price). It is the only way to make a matte screen and the effect depends largely on the size of the refractive dots (larger -> better Pencil resistance, smaller -> less visible distortion). If you like closely at your matte desktop monitor, you will notice the same type of refraction.

If you want to live with that is really up to you. Are you enjoying the added resistance using the Pencil? Do you want to greatly reduce on screen fingerprints? Are you using the iPad outside a lot or in conditions where ambient light sources shine directly onto the screen? Then keep it, or try experimenting with different products for perfect balance between desired effect and distraction.

Personally, I use one of these matte protectors (not sure if they ship globally) because if find its positive properties much more valuable when out and about than I find the optical degradation annoying. But I also use the iPad mainly for writing, reading, and music, with no image editing that I wouldn't be able to review properly on my Macbook with proper additional screen when at home.

 

[0992672]

Well they obviously degrade the image quality of your screen, given how they work by texturizing an even surface with a fine grained structure. This dotted surface increases friction, giving it a paperlike feel, and refracts rays of light, making the screen less reflective in direct lighting. However, unfortunately, this also works works the other way around. Given that it naturally must be a surface permeable to light, it not only disperses light shining onto the display from the outside, but also the light from within. It refracts the light that the screen emits, resulting in a moiré like pattern, and a visible decomposition of white into individual colors. Some matte protectors are better, some are worse (the most expensive ones, like the Paperlike 2, however, are not really better than products half its price). It is the only way to make a matte screen and the effect depends largely on the size of the refractive dots (larger -> better Pencil resistance, smaller -> less visible distortion). If you like closely at your matte desktop monitor, you will notice the same type of refraction.

If you want to live with that is really up to you. Are you enjoying the added resistance using the Pencil? Do you want to greatly reduce on screen fingerprints? Are you using the iPad outside a lot or in conditions where ambient light sources shine directly onto the screen? Then keep it, or try experimenting with different products for perfect balance between desired effect and distraction.

Personally, I use one of these matte protectors (not sure if they ship globally) because if find its positive properties much more valuable when out and about than I find the optical degradation annoying. But I also use the iPad mainly for writing, reading, and music, with no image editing that I wouldn't be able to review properly on my Macbook with proper additional screen when at home.

Thank you very much bro

 

[C. Robert]

It’s worth the trade off