Sister was messing around with a UV light and noticed this on her phone screen under it. My phone does not have this (all I get is a grid of dots I’m pretty sure are to do with the touch screen).

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    OCA is applied from edge to edge. If it was the adhesive, the whole screen would be lighting up. Also, OCA is cured with UV light, but it doesn’t fluoresce.

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      Well I don’t want to paste another Gemini response as Lemmy seems to hate it so (and I do too when someone is pretending like the text their showing is isn’t LLM created, when it is.)

      Anyway I rephrased the question and added your info to it. It suggests the shape might be due to a polariser film, but I don’t agree with that as it too would fill the whole screen.

      Gemini points out that it might be another part of the screen stack. Which I wouldn’t agree with. When you buy a replacement “screen”, you’re actually buying a stack of components and maybe one of those assembly processed uses a UV-fluorescent glue or component.

      Who knows imagine a shruggie here im too lazy to copy one and then get the formatting right so it shows up properly even though I now realise it would’ve been faster to do that than write this sentence

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        Yeah the real issue for me is that in addition to not filling the screen, it’s also asymmetrical. So it can’t be something done on purpose.

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          Well if it was originally liquid and gets squeezed in between two thin parts during machine assembly, I could see it developing to be that shape.

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            That’s a good point. I don’t think it can be an adhesive, but maybe some other kind of layer?

            Still odd that it’s fluorescent. If it’s that close to the front-facing camera (and meant to be spread over it), it would ruin any photo taken outside during the day.