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hey guys I'm Sharon Vaknin and today I'll show you how to purchase and apply a screen protector for your phone not everyone believes in screen protectors but after seeing how scratch prone Molly's iPhone 5 is I'm pretty much a fan okay so let's get right to it the screen protector you choose will vary depending on your phone protectors also come in matte finishes or as privacy screens but I would avoid those if you can they tend to produce this unavoidable rainbow effect with these clear protectors you'll shield your phone without affecting the display so today I'll be using a clear protector for the iPhone 5 from sir Lancelot's armor and it's time to apply this thing first things first you want to be in a dust free environment pick a clean surface in a quiet area where no one will bother you it's really important that you get it right the first time and one more thing if you have lotion on your hands you'll want to remove it either by washing your hands with soap and water or wiping them down with some rubbing alcohol now you'll need to clean your iPhone screen first remove any case you might have on it just take this one off and spray with just a little LCD cleaning solution alright give it a good rub down with a microfiber cloth and take your time here you don't want any dust okay let's double check to make sure see a couple flecks I'm telling you you want to take your time here now we can get to applying our protector alright so take the protector this is brand new out of its packaging and most times these will come with a microfiber cloth and even a card for pushing out the bubbles alright there it is you can start from the top or the bottom but in my experience you get the best alignment when you start with the home button okay first we'll peel the backing off the protector and make sure you're holding its sides do not touch the sticky part if you need to if you have fat fingers you can use tweezers to hang on to it but I'm going to go ahead and just be really careful here okay so we'll start by making sure that it's perfectly aligned around a home button again you want to take your time with this it's not a race because if you do it right it's going to last a long time okay that looks pretty good okay as soon as you found the sweet spot around the home button grab a credit card and slowly use it to apply the protector again really take your time here that's the secret to not having any bubbles so I'm just pushing pushing pushing keep going up alright if at any point you see a bubble you can lift the protector a little bit and go back and oops and push that bubble out alright so far so good alright when you have it all smoothed out and in place it's time to peel back this tab which will expose the actual screen protector itself it should look a lot shinier now if there are any bubbles you can't quite get out there's either a scratch or dust under there if it's dust lift the protector with a piece of tape and then use another piece of tape to remove the dust just like that and there you have it if you did it right you should really hardly be able to tell that there's even a screen protector on your phone and once you put your case back on your phone will be totally protected remember you should apply a screen protector soo after buying your phone otherwise those scratches will give you unwanted bubbles if you have any questions or just want to tweet me a photo of your bang-up job hit me up on Twitter for CNET I'm Sharon Vaknin