I have an apple iPhone 14 Pro, I am about to upgrade to the 16 pro and I am searching for cases to protect my new phone. If it is a website with a lot of options, I can’t get past the ones I’ve already seen because Safari keeps refreshing. I’ve gone to settings to background app refresh and I have everything turned off already, I’m not sure what else I can try.
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iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18
It's interesting you mentioned Speck. They used to make really good products but their quality has diminished, and I no longer recommend them.
You have to be really circumspect regarding Amazon reviews. They are a good place to start, but then you have to consider the fact some are fakes planted by sellers, paid shills, bots, or all the above. Amazon tries to preserve the integrity of their reviews but it's not perfect. For example if you write a positive review it gets published right away. If you write a critical one, at best there will be a long wait before it gets published, if it ever does. Then some negative reviews are negative because the item arrived late, or similarly dumb reasons.
I recently purchased a product from Amazon that gets absolutely horrible reviews. The product itself is fantastic. Lots of one star reviews, and astonishingly zero five star reviews. Why? The printed instructions that came with it contain an obvious glaring error that made the product very challenging to configure, until you realize the instructions were flat out wrong. What's worse is that those erroneous instructions were printed in unbelievably small text. It was "frequently returned" only because people couldn't figure it out. A phenomenal product, doomed by a piece of paper.
I took the liberty of rewriting and simplifying those instructions, increased the text size by about 500%, uploaded it as a PDF to a public hosting site, and wrote a review explaining all that. Amazon rejected it.
This will save you the time: iPhone 16 Pro Clear Case with MagSafe - Apple. There are others on that page also.
In general, if Safari starts misbehaving, follow these instructions: Clear the history, cache, and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support.
Try restarting your iPhone.
If that does not work, ensure that your iPhone is updated to the latest iOS.
Thank you, I’ll give your suggestions a try. I always use private browsing. I just cleared everything I could clear, so I’m hoping that will help.
The problem that I have as far as cell phone cases go, it’s not that I don’t think Apple cases would be a good case to have, but I’m a woman and I want something pretty. The paradox that I found myself in is that just as a general rule, the cases that are pretty don’t seem to be that durable and the ones that are durable aren’t all that attractive looking (at least to me). I like the cases with the high shine that almost look like fingernail polish. I also prefer cases that include the full cover for the camera lenses so that the whole phone is all one color without a square being different. Because even if you put the little lens caps on it, inside that square is still the color of your phone, which might not be the color of your case. I found some that I really like the look of either due to the shiny finish in a color that I like with a trim color that I also like, or I find a case that has some graphics that I find attractive. I just wish designers would realize that a case can be utilitarian without having to look like it. I’d say that’s probably a good reason. People end up with broken phones is because they go for the prettier cases that speak more to their personal aesthetic.
That is entirely possible. If a website is so poorly designed that it constantly has to reload itself perhaps it's not worth using that website. Amazon (for example) doesn't have that problem and they're very good at selling stuff. It's hard to imagine Amazon woudn't have something satisfactory.
I understand your desire for an attractive and useful case for your iPhone, and I used to consider Apple's prices to be unreasonably high at $50 or so just for a basic utilitarian case. Instead, I bought cases from well-regarded established premium case makers, definitely not low end junk, but I eventually came to the conclusion even they just didn't hold up well. I found myself replacing them two or three times over the life of an iPhone because they yellowed / cracked / stretched.
For whatever reason Apple's cases don't suffer from those problems. Their selection may not be as broad though, so you will have to weigh durability vs. attractiveness. For example you might be ok replacing your cases every couple of months. It would be nice to find both though, but I don't have anything I can seriously recommend other than Apple's cases.
I was looking at Blanc Space phone cases because they have all kinds of different designs to choose from as far as art on your case, and it can be customized. But you’re right, the longer I looked at it the more wonky I noticed things seemed to be. Plus, even though it has a good score on trust pilot, I couldn’t really find any reviews anywhere on it, which to me is kind of odd for online shopping. But then maybe they are just new? I don’t know. One thing that I’ve noticed about Amazon that always throws me is I’ll look at something and it’ll be mostly positive reviews, but then when I scroll down to add it to my list in case I want to buy it, it’ll say this product is often returned. And I’m like why is it so often returned if it’s a good product? I just wish there was a more definitive place to look at reviews. You can’t even really go to YouTube and get a good answer because one person will review something and say definitely, under no circumstances by this particular case, and then the next reviewer will rave about that exact same case. So you just never know who to trust. And that’s with anything that you buy.
I just want a case that I like the look of that also does its job. I’m clumsy, so I want to have a phone with a good bit of protection. The case that I have on my phone now works great, but I have no idea what kind of case it is. I can’t find where I bought it. Before that, I had a spec phone case that I had for years, it wasn’t the most attractive case, but it was super grippy so it wasn’t as easy to drop and it was incredibly durable. I had it forever and my phone looked brand new.
When I had my iPhone 5, I kept it until I Got an iPhone X, and between a screen protector, and that Speck case, it looked absolutely brand new out of the box when I traded it in. I’m not really a big fan of the clear cases, but for some reason all the MagSafe cases or like that, or at least the majority. When I got my X, I got a case from Amazon, but it’s not on my purchase history anymore so I don’t know if it was discontinued or what the deal with that was. It’s really cool looking, it’s iridescent going from blue to purple to almost pink and it changes with the light. It looked great with a black phone, but I had to trade it in my phone and they gave me a white one so now it looks like crap. I’m tired of these phones having small issues, so I’m going to just go ahead and upgrade which means my indecisive self is once again in barking on the great phone case hunt.
It’s updated, but I will definitely try restarting my phone. Thank you for the suggestion.
I just wanted to follow up. I tried your suggestions and it didn’t help. Maybe it’s just the website? Or maybe it’s the website reloading itself trying to add pop-ups?
Why does Safari keep reloading on iPhone 14 Pro when browsing case websites?
