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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 and Astropad Fresh Coat Anti-Reflective Screen Protector

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple's iPhone 17 models and a Fresh Coat anti-reflective screen protector from Astropad to use with it.

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Fresh Coat is a screen protector with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to minimize glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology reduces reflections by 75 percent, while improving contrast and keeping colors vibrant. Unlike other anti-reflective screen protectors on the market, Fresh Coat adds no haze or distortion to the iPhone's display.

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Priced at $30, Fresh Coat is made from a scratch-proof tempered glass that provides protection for the iPhone's display in addition to cutting down on glare and reflections. It's slim and doesn't add bulk to the iPhone even though there are five layers of protective technology at work. From the top down, there's an anti-reflective coating, an oleophobic and hydrophobic coating, a layer of tempered glass, a dust barrier, and an impact-resistant "airbag" bonding.

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If you have an ‌iPhone 17‌, it already has an anti-reflective coating from Apple. What you probably don't know is that you can't use just any screen protector with the ‌iPhone 17‌. If you put a regular screen protector without an anti-reflective coating on, it nullifies the anti-reflective properties of that added coating.

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Since Fresh Coat has its own anti-reflective coating, it improves on Apple's included anti-reflective layer, cutting glare even further. With Fresh Coat, the iPhone's screen is easy to see in any lighting conditions, there's less eye strain, and if you use Dark Mode, it looks even darker.

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If you don't have an ‌iPhone 17‌, Fresh Coat can provide an iPhone 17-style display upgrade, mirroring Apple's own reflection-reducing display coating. Fresh Coat is available for all ‌iPhone 17‌ models, the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, and the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.

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Astropad designed an installation process that's impossible to mess up, so you get perfect alignment on your iPhone without the hassle that comes with most screen protectors.

We have an ‌iPhone 17‌ and a Fresh Coat screen protector for one lucky MacRumors reader. To enter to win, use the widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winner(s) and send the prize(s). You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, following us on Threads, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.

Due to the complexities of international laws regarding giveaways, only U.S. residents who are 18 years or older, UK residents who are 18 years or older, and Canadian residents who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory are eligible to enter. All federal, state, provincial, and/or local taxes, fees, and surcharges are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. To offer feedback or get more information on the giveaway restrictions, please refer to our Site Feedback section, as that is where discussion of the rules will be redirected.

The contest will run from today (April 10) at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on April 17. The winner will be chosen randomly on or shortly after April 17 and will be contacted by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond and provide a shipping address before a new winner is chosen.

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Top Rated Comments

Plutonius Avatar
23 hours ago at 11:37 am

Entered hopefully I win!
I don't expect to ever win but I like entering the MacRumors giveaways.
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LordArchie Avatar
22 hours ago at 12:50 pm
Nice screen protector, unfortunately broke mine and it appears they have no warranty/replacement program like FloLab
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17 hours ago at 05:22 pm
Why are we getting an "Android Fresh Coat," I thought this was an Apple site!
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johnsawyercjs Avatar
18 hours ago at 04:50 pm

Prior owner of this “protector” and I can tell you two things categorically: I appreciated the enhanced clarity and miss it now that I no longer have it on my iPhone AND it absolutely sucked as protection. I’ll include a pic. Context: two drops (one from about 3 feet onto a soft wooden floor, one from about 2 feet onto a cork floor). Further context: this iPhone screen has survived for years without a ding, falling from higher onto harder.
Yeah, I think of screen protectors as protecting against scratches to the display, and providing some impact protection for the display, but not that the protector itself is immune to these things. But a ding like that from being dropped about two feet onto a cork floor? Seems unusually fragile, but maybe some cork is harder than others.
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B4U Avatar
21 hours ago at 02:15 pm

Nice screen protector, unfortunately broke mine and it appears they have no warranty/replacement program like FloLab
Looking at the package I just received, it says 6 months limited warranty with a link to its website.
https://support.astropad.com/en/articles/12261040-what-is-the-warranty-for-fresh-coat

After reading the website, looks like the warranty is good for manufacturing defects only. 😅
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21 hours ago at 01:50 pm
Prior owner of this “protector” and I can tell you two things categorically: I appreciated the enhanced clarity and miss it now that I no longer have it on my iPhone AND it absolutely sucked as protection. I’ll include a pic. Context: two drops (one from about 3 feet onto a soft wooden floor, one from about 2 feet onto a cork floor). Further context: this iPhone screen has survived for years without a ding, falling from higher onto harder.

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