The Best iPhone 7 Case for Most People

Let’s face it, there are a lot of iPhone cases out there. Some are super thin, meant for the minimalist, while others are big and bulky, meant for the person who wants extreme protection. But somewhere in the middle, there’s the iPhone case that is just meant to be, well, a case.

What brought me to the Incipio NGP was my desire to find a case that walked the line of offering good protection and grip without being too bulky. I also wanted a case that protected every edge of the phone, including the bottom area where the speakers and Lighting port reside. So many cases, including Apple’s Silicon Case, have a wide opening at the bottom for this area. It’s not a bad thing, but I just don’t understand why they don’t cover it up. The Incipio NGP does, thankfully, which means if I drop my iPhone on the speaker side, there’s a much higher chance that that part of my phone isn’t going to get dented or cracked. Who doesn’t want that?

Putting on the case is easy. Because of the Flex20 material, slipping it on takes only a few seconds. And once the case is on, your phone ends up gaining about 3mm in extra thickness, bringing to total to somewhere around 10mm. This is much slimmer compared to most cases that offer any real protection.

You’d think that because the case isn’t bulky, you won’t get much grip, right? Well, you’d be wrong. This grip on this case is without question one of the stand-out features. I’m not sure exactly what Flex2O is, but somehow it has this great balance of grip and slip. What I mean by that is that it feels grippy when it’s in your hands, but when you put it in your pocket, it slips in and out with ease. Apple’s silicon case, for example, does not do that.

What’s also great is that this case does little to prevent me from feeling both the Volume and Sleep/Wake buttons on the side of my iPhone. There’s nothing worse than having a case makes it difficult to access these buttons blindly. I hate that.

Incipio solves this by essentially molding around the buttons to a precision that I would call very Apple-like. It doesn’t look exactly like Apple’s silicon case, but when it’s in your hand, you cannot miss those buttons. I love that.

Access to the Mute switch is also implemented well. There’s a nice cutout that lets you get to the switch without much trouble whatsoever. And because the case isn’t thick, it’s not buried deep like some other case out there.

Finally, I want to add that in the months of using this case, there were many instances where I had to take it on and off multiple times a week. So far, the case has never ripped or become loose. Each time I put it back on it feels almost as if I’m putting it on for the first time.