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How to Remove a PopSocket Without Breaking It

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Key Takeaways
  • PopSockets are becoming popular accessories for smartphones due to their convenience and trendiness, but eventually, people may want to remove them due to wear and tear or other reasons.
  • There are two methods to remove a PopSocket without breaking it: a cost-effective method using long fingernails and a professional method involving isopropyl alcohol and tools like a pry tool or credit card.
  • To ensure successful removal, follow the steps carefully and use butter paper to store or reuse the PopSocket without damaging it.

With smartphones getting bigger and bigger, people tend to drop them more. Because smartphones are becoming heavy, taking care of them becomes a daunting task. As a result, more and more people are getting inclined towards using Popsocket at the back of their smartphones. These pop sockets are both handy and trendy and also make smartphone usage easy.

While these pop sockets are cheap and provide add a good utility to smartphones, people purchase and use them. But with time, they get bored with it because the color fades and putting the phone inside pockets and bags becomes a hassle. Further, smartphones that support NFC face problems with payment.

After that, people think about removing it. However, popsockets donโ€™t come out that easily and many people are interested to know how they can remove a popsocket without actually breaking anything. Here, in this guide, we will see exactly that.

How to Remove a PopSocket Without Breaking It

How to Remove a PopSocket Without Breaking It

Removing a pocsocket without actually breaking anything is quite easy. However, we will describe 2 methods to do the same. The first method is cost-effective; you only need strength, long nails, and nothing more. The next method will require some tools but guarantee effortness removal.

You donโ€™t have to worry because people usually stick popsocket on the back cover and not directly on the phone itself. Oh, wait! Did you stick the popsocket to your phone directly? If thatโ€™s the case, you must follow the cost-effective way and wash your phone with isopropyl alcohol to remove any residual glue.

The Cost-Effective Method:

Prerequisites: Long fingernails, strength, and butter paper.

Just follow these steps for the easy and cost-effective method.

  1. Close the popsocket depending on your variant.
  2. Put in your fingernail around the popsocket slowly to detach it from your phone. You can ask for help if you donโ€™t have long fingernails.
  3. Now, start pulling the pocksocket using your other hand.
  4. Once the popsocket starts coming out, bring your other device near to put it on that or you can also throw it if you wish.

If you want to use the pop socket some other time on your same smartphone, keep some butter paper handy to stick it on the popsocket.

The Professional Method

Prerequisites:ย Isopropyl alcohol (You can also use rubbing alcohol), pryer or pry tool, or credit card, and butter paper

  1. Close the popsocket depending on your variant.
  2. Spary some isopropyl alcohol along the sides of the popsocket. Let it seep inside.
  3. After a minute, use a credit card to make space between your phone and the popsocket, and using the pry tool, remove the pop socket.
  4. Once the popsocket starts coming out, bring your other device near to put it on that or you can also throw it if you wish. If you wish to keep the popsocket for later use, stick it on butter paper.

Make sure not to keep the popsocket directly somewhere because it will be exposed to dust. If dust sticks on your popsocket it wonโ€™t stick anywhere else.

Well, thatโ€™s all we have here about how you can remove a popsocket without breaking anything. If you follow our method carefully, you wonโ€™t break anything.

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