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

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

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Fresh Coat is a screen protector that Astropad created with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to reduce glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology cuts 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 comes with an anti-reflective coating added by Apple. What you might not 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, reducing 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 in white 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 (February 27) at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on March 6. The winner will be chosen randomly on or shortly after March 6 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

9 months ago
Isn't any optical coating "optical grade"?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 months ago

Or other countries. This site is on internet after all:mad:
Actually reading the article should be a pre-requisite for sweepstakes entry, in which case, you would not qualify.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HouseLannister Avatar
9 months ago
17 is already anti reflective and scratch resistant. Don’t see a reason to use a screen protector. Those things shatter with the slightest bump, but my unprotected screens stay pristine.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 months ago
It’s a good screen protector, but not at $30 for 1.

Same exact screen protectors without markup at for $1 on alibaba
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 months ago
I use the wonderful $10 Magic John screen protector on my 17 and it absolutely does not "nullifies" the anti-reflective properties of the iPhone screen.
Also, any antireflective coating applied on something exposed like a phone screen won't last very long.
(I work with 50k lenses and I know a few things about antireflective coatings...)
So this $30 (over) priced protector is very unlikely to have a high-tech and revolutionary coating...
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JoshBoy Avatar
9 months ago
Why can’t you include Australia in your competitions?
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