A:AnswerIt’s very safe I’ve dropped it a couple times at that height and even a little higher by accident of course and nothing happened to my phone great protection to say the least
A:AnswerI bought the same case, and I would say the buttons on my unit are the easy to press. There might be a defect in your unit, so try returning it and buying another unit. Did you know you can try on cases at bestbuy? Thy if the other units are any different.