"Screen Guard Professional" - help with tabs?

[ChaunceyK]

Decided to try a screen guard for my phone, so I bought a set of 3 real cheap on Ebay. I followed the directions as best as I could, and I thought I had it done right. It fit well on my screen, I smoothed out the bubbles with little effort, it has a nice mirror effect, it doesn't smudge like the regular screen does, it didn't desensitize the screen to my touch, I was happy!

But then there was this paper tab hanging off it & just making an eyesore of itself. So I tried to pull the tab off the guard, and it was like trying to pull a sticker off of any other plastic surface...there's a bunch of sticker residue on it that I can't get off.

Now, in case not all screen guards are made alike (this is my first one), I'll describe it. It came as 2 pieces of plastic stuck together, each with a paper tab. I removed Tab 1 first (as it was, after all, Tab 1) and found its sheet to be non-adhesive. Tab 2's sheet adhered easily to the screen. Thinking I may have used the wrong sheet, I tugged at Tab 1's tab & found it to be exactly like Tab 2's tab...sticker residue holding it to the sheet.

So how do I remove these tabs? They can't possibly just stay on there making my phone look dorky, can they??

 

[ChaunceyK]

Ok, I don't know why I don't think of these things sooner, but I decided to search YouTube for an instructional video. Sure enough, they had one. It seems that after smoothing the adhesive sheet & waiting a few minutes, I'm supposed to pull Tab 2 & it'll remove the 2nd sheet, leaving the adhesive (hidden 3rd) sheet in place.

So now, although its still mirrored & protected & all that other rot I praised it for, it still smudges just as easily (which I'm not thrilled with). Guess I'll just keep the little wipe that was included & carry that with me in my pocket...at least it does a better job of removing the smudges than my shirt does.

 

[bitsybobsy]

many people make mistakes trying to remove the sticker tabs. i did that too few years ago.