one of the first things that i do when i get a new smartphone is i look for a screen protector
to protect my asset in this case my pixel 5. hello i am wanderer001 and this is my review of the zag
invisa shield and if we scooch that down glass plus now if you've seen some of my other videos
on my channel you may be asking yourself why am i reviewing another screen protector didn't i have
the invisible shield glass elite with vision guard and yes i did review for that is up in the corner
but due to user error on my part for the application of it i needed a new one problem
being that the glass elite plus and the glass elite plus with vision guard are very difficult
to get a hold of right now so i took a step down and got the glass plus keep in mind that not all
glass screen protectors are created equal what do i mean by that well i got a zag invisi shield
for my pixel 2 way back when and got a generic off-brand for my wife and i think the results
speak for themselves example of not all glass screen protectors are treated equal this one
put on much sooner than the one on the left here this is my pixel 2. so i've had this on here
for three years and you can see aside from just needing to be wiped down a little more
this has not quite been three years on here but you could see it is
much worse for wear now that you've seen the difference between a generic no brand
we're gonna say and the zag product line let's take a look at what we're actually dealing with
right here and best to do that sadly for screen protectors is looking at the box the main
differences between the glass plus and the glass plus elite or glass plus elite with vision guard
obviously this doesn't have the protection from blue light and for the elite plus this one is only
three times shadow resistance as opposed to four times with the plus elite plus has the same
corner protection and the reinforced edges and if we flip this over
there you go edge protection precision touch which i will say is accurate clean smudge free screen
which again compared to other screen protectors all you have to do with this is wipe wipe and
it's done and easy application i will say it was easy to apply the extra thing that's missing here
aside from the smooth touch screen which the glass plus compared to the glass elite plus
they're very close compared to the glass elite plus with vision guard
i actually give the smoothness of the glass plus the edge in comparison the one big factor that the
glass plus does not have compared to the glass elite plus is actually the 99.99
microbial protection offered by the elite plus and the vision guard but if you're like me you
don't just want your screen to be germ free you want your whole phone to be germ free and up
there in the corner is a device that can do that for you however talking product specs is all well
and good but hey how easy is it to put a screen protector like this on let's use that as a segue
to one see what you get with the glass plus here in the box as well as how easy it is to install
on your we'll start with a what's in the box so you do have a guide and then two
envelopes and we'll put this aside first envelope which i'm going to try not to rip
but in here we've got alcohol wipe cleaning cloth and then a dust sticker and in our other
envelope which you can see i kind of already went into we have our actual screen protector
and this one has a yellow tint to it too like the
envisage invisible shield glass elite vision guard so i'm not sure why this one's yellow
you can see there it has the hole punch out so we will put these aside for now and we will bring in
our phone now last time
i did this without
the screen being on and i think that aided in the screen protector being somewhat cockeyed now i am
sorry the white balance is going to be kind of off because i'm going to leave the wait screen on so
i can kind of tell where things are last time i didn't do that and like i said things ended up
being a little crooked so we're going to start by wiping the front of our phone surface down
and you can see right there one of the problems with having the phone on
as it is going to be touch sensitive i do have it in do not disturb mode
just to try and mitigate things and for those who might not be familiar with it
this is the google opinions reward app so you can use that to uh answer some questions from google
and they will give you a cash reward granted it's small chump change but you can
use it and we're just gonna take our alcohol wipe now and we're going to wipe this down
and just like last time even with the screen on here you can definitely this is a wet wipe
compared to all those years ago when it was more of a
dry one so i might just cut this portion out i might actually have to even turn that off for now
which is a little annoying all right so wet wiped take our cleaning cloth again
and we'll hit it
let's try and make sure that there's nothing on there
dust because dust keeps popping up in that corner that's why you've got your dust sticker
to try and hit it real quick say all right so next we're going to take our dust sticker
and work quickly to de-dust the dust of the phone and maybe i'll use the lock screen
as my guide
so we're going to work quickly because once we de-dust it just existing dust exists and
gets everywhere and it is super annoying so we're gonna say that's de-dusted for now
we're gonna throw our guard on our guide i'm gonna hit that to give me an idea yeah
so the guide is definitely wasn't sure how well the guide on the other version actually was
and definitely is telling you where the edges of the screen are okay so apology my
needing to see out trumps you're getting this on video
so we'll hit it with the dust sticker one more time really quick just to be sure
and then we will take our guide our screen protector pull up from the corner here
and then we face it down and then we bring it over and line up our hole so we're gonna do this
around the guide and then push
i'm pretty sure i can turn that off for the time being so you can kind of see it adhering
now there's a big old air bubble there
but we're going to make sure that that adheres in the corners
so much like with any of these
invisible shields from zag you may have some air bubbles when you first install it you can
see i'm just using my finger to push it down or
i can use this cleaning cloth here and kind of help it adhere in the corners
and push out some of those air bubbles now even if i take this off and those bubbles are still there
after some usage
and rubbing them down they will eventually go away so don't worry if they're there at the onset so
we're gonna call that in place we're gonna take off our guide give that a little more
to make sure that it adheres in the corners and then we're gonna start at the top and take it off
and see how it looks so as i said you do see there are some bubbles but
with a little time and working them they will eventually dissipate
so we'll come back and see what that looks like afterwards they do look like just oil spots
but they will go away eventually so we'll just continue to kind of
push them down until they go away i had a little easier time installing
this one since this was my third attempt at installing a screen protector from zag
for a 5g over there in the corner the original vision guard that i had on here and now
this one aside from having the screen on and battling with that because of filming reasons it
was a very easy application process the one thing that i noticed with the glass plus versus the
elite plus and the vision guard was that the the bubbles that appeared after installation did take
slightly longer to go away with the glass plus as opposed to the other two options as with all
screen protectors that are glass in nature you will notice that there is a bit of dust collection
there and if i can get that to focus you do get a bit of dust collection around the punch out for
the camera and just like i said with my other other reviews i'm not necessarily sure how i
feel about that because i do have to clean that out on occasion because of the dust collection
because this is the pixel 5 the actual speaker is underneath the glass i will say that the
extra layer of the tempered glass screen protector does not actually affect it in
any way shape or form it sounds just like it does if it doesn't have the screen protector on
if you've looked at several different types of tempered glass screen protectors you may want to
know that there's a big difference with the zag invisible shield compared to some of the others
zag does a full screen adherence as opposed to some of the other options which is just
around the lid now for installation reasons that becomes a little tricky however for general use
case having a full screen application is great in that you don't have those little air pockets
that kind of make it less touch sensitive because it adhered to the entirety of your screen i will
say that again tempered glass screen protectors do have a rainbowing effect of sorts surprisingly
with the glass plus compared to the elite and vision guard this has almost none compared to
the two the elite there is definitely some when you have a white screen and you tilt it like that
the vision guard plus was even less so this is almost non-existent so in actuality there's no
reason for me to show you it because you will not notice any rainbowing even on white screens with
this particular screen protector when i brought you up close to the phone there you noticed again
the dust but also that it doesn't come to the very edges of the phone and that is because this screen
protector is actually compatible with cases so in my case i have the spigen tough armor which goes
around this case and it does not interfere in any way shape or form with the screen protector that
is the fault that i had with the vision guard i put it on slightly crooked because i was trying
to work around the punch out for the camera up front and it was just a little far that the case
was rubbing on the edge and it eventually annoyed me enough that i had to take it off because there
was a air pocket over there not so much with this one because i put it on correctly and if i would
have done the vision guard correctly as well i wouldn't have had that problem but the zag
screen protectors are case compliant so you can use a case with your screen protector because
a lot of cases nowadays don't come with screen protectors and even the ones that did they were
not great last but not least and the part that i am probably underselling for the glass plus over
the elite glass or the vision guard is the price this is half the price of the vision guard at 25
the elite plus for that four times extra so that really one extra and the anti-microbial coating
is forty dollars so twenty five dollars versus fifty or versus forty for the elite plus right
now i haven't had any problems with this only being a three times scratch protection
but time will tell the question for you is is that slight decrease in protection worth the
massive drop in price one of the things that i found with the glass plus also is difficult to
find on amazon or even zagg's official site i ended up finding it on best buy go figure
considering this is my fourth now screen protector from zag i cannot speak highly enough about them i
know that you're going to be satisfied with the protection that you get from it
and again if you get the glass plus you're going to save a lot more compared to their other options
time will tell if the glass plus is comparable to the elite plus but again 25 even if it's not you
wait for the elite to come back on sale you pick it up in the meantime you've got something that
will protect your phone from getting scratches with that being said i have been wanderer001
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