Why phone screens aren’t made of plastic or another transparent, hard-to-break material?

Question

My issue is with glass smashing into pieces under the smallest falls

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Answer 1

Older phones where plastic screens, and would scratch easily. I still carry my phone in a pocket without my keys or wallet, out of habits learned from that time.

Glass is extremely hard to scratch, but easy to break. So they try to keep coming out with harder to break glass (gorilla glass).