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[–] 32 points 1 week ago (25 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    How dense is your shower curtain than you can't leave it outside the shower and still hear it??

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You think hacking an Amazon Show with Lineage is less work than "messing around with Bluetooth"? You'll fit right in here.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    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.

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