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Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phones
www.engadget.com/2266522/why-steam-ruins-phone-more-than-water/Replying to @muelltonne@feddit.org
Why in the world would I bring the phone in the shower?
Replying to @mastertigurius@lemmy.world
Like a few other commenters, I had never even thought that taking your phone into the shower was a thing until I saw this post.
Just... why? Why risk it? Your average smart phone is anywhere from $500 to over $1000, so what's so important that you're deliberately exposing it to water and the risk of dropping it (especially if you're using shampoo, conditioner, soap or any other bathroom product designed to act as a cleaning agent)? Surely whatever it is can wait however long it is you're showering for?
Personally, I wouldn't want a friend/relative/whatever phoning me or answering the phone if they were in the shower or using the bathroom.
I can understand one of the other comments about using it to listen to podcasts/music/videos/etc., and at least in that case the phone is presumably far enough away (and not being regularly accessed) that it's at lower risk. Fair enough -- I sometimes do that whilst washing dishes. Still, I think I'd struggle trying to listen to something whilst actively showering -- too much other noise.
my phone is here for a good time, not a long time
Seriously, if it survives being attached to me for 2-3 years, a little occasional steam damage is not going to be its biggest concern
Replying to @Australis13@fedia.io
Put a bluetooth speaker in the shower instead of your phone; it’s not like you can work the screen with wet hands anyway.
SInce my speaker stopped working, I’ve taken to putting the phone in a plastic baggie hanging from the curtain rod between the curtains.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
How dense is your shower curtain than you can’t leave it outside the shower and still hear it??
Replying to @Zidane@lemmy.ca
The speaker on my Pixel 7 is plenty loud, but so is the water in the shower.
I also listen to podcasts, which are usually mixed quieter than music, and require more volume to pick up quieter consonants.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Get a little Bluetooth speaker. I keep my phone next to the speaker outside the shower, and I hear it fine.
I got a couple Amazon Echo Show 8s and hacked them with Lineage. It doesnt sound great but it at least has more body than my cell phone, so I can actually hear it. And I dont have to mess around with Bluetooth. And there’s no battery.
Replying to @artyom@piefed.social
You think hacking an Amazon Show with Lineage is less work than “messing around with Bluetooth”? You’ll fit right in here.
Haha. I mean it takes like 15 min and then never had to mess with it again.
Replying to @artyom@piefed.social
I’ll keep an eye out for stuff like that at tag sales. I have a media server that is unused for music. I mean, I could use my phone, but i hate messing around with bluetooth.
Replying to @Zidane@lemmy.ca
Not the person you replied to but I can hear it just fine…but I would rather not hear music at all than to hear it muffled through a shower curtain and a waterfall.
Speaker’s gotta be IN the shower or I’m singing my own songs
Replying to @Zidane@lemmy.ca
Just let them masturbate in peace will ya
Replying to @HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
Only if I can join ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Replying to @Australis13@fedia.io
I had a “waterproof” e reader that was sitting in the bathroom directly opposite the shower for a week, the battery got fucked up and the case popped off
Replying to @chrisashtear@lemmy.zip
Doesn’t sound like that’s related
That sounds directly related to the point of the article
Replying to @cenzorrll@piefed.ca
The battery, unrelated to the humidity.
Replying to @Australis13@fedia.io
The shower is the one place where I can have some peace and switch off. No news, no noise, no immediate crises that need solving. Just listen to the running water, enjoy for a bit, feel a little bit more relaxed and clean afterwards. A phone would achieve the exact opposite.
A shower is 1/10 of a haircut on the meditative activities scale.
Replying to @socsa@piefed.social
I buzz my head in the shower, does that mean I get 110% every time?
That sounds correct
Replying to @Australis13@fedia.io
Who the fuck pays 500 bucks for a phone? It’s a fucking phone. You gotta make phone calls and get spied by Google and everything, that’s all I see.
I read my daily web fiction in the shower while I wake up. My iPhone 10 is still going strong after all these years of steam. Hell, it’s been dropped several times.
Yeah it’s a little weird, but we’ve all gotta cope in this world
Replying to @Australis13@fedia.io
Meh. I started doing this with my iPod 10 ish years ago, continued it with an Android that had no IP rating, and still do it with an IP-rated flagship. Over daily showers all that time I have yet to drop or have one fail. I have also used them in the rain on occasion. If something happens I will consider a 1 in 3,000 occurence not bad.
Replying to @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
Same. I like to listen to music or podcasts in the shower sometimes. I’m not standing in the water with my phone but sometimes it gets wet because I change sometime. I’ve never had an issue