I have taken my phones into showers since before waterproof phones were a thing and I never had an issue. I change mine every couple of years so maybe I haven’t used them long enough to notice any issues.
I take mine into the shower occasionally. Generally just to finish a reply or finish reading something. My phone is 4 years old and is 100% fine.
Have the same phone for 6 years now, bring it into the shower most days, and have not had any issues.
Maybe steam has a non-zero effect but it’s pretty damn close to zero…
There is two people in this thread
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people who read “bringing your phone in to the shower” as having the phone in the same room as the shower.
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everyone else who seems to think that people are putting their phones directly under the shower nozzle.
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If one is this ignorant and addicted to the damn thing, plug it while you take a shower. The phone will be happy.
I never knew there were this many people who bring phones in the shower. Where is this world going… People chase dopamine even while showering
I bought a waterproof box, some touch sensors, and an esp32, and made a waterproof bluetooth remote i can keep in the shower. speaker and phone live outside, but i still get control.
That feels like a lot of work for very little benefit. Do you just want to jerk off with no cleanup or what?
No, soldering’s my hobby. The thing I do in my free time instead of jerking off, if you will. So I build a lot of not-really-necessary electronics.
Fair enough lol. Do what you enjoy
Why people so judgmental. I’m sure y’all do shit others find more weird than having your phone in the shower.
I floss and brush in the shower. I just get so impatient standing at the sink for so long. Shower is relaxing, though, so I do a much better job in there.
I brong it in to doomscroll whilst pooping before i shower. So its already in the room with me. But never had an issue so far.
fortunately the Steam deck doesn’t have that problem
I have always enjoyed quiet showers. I dont need to consume content during every activity.
I wish I had your brain. I feel like unless I have a constant stream of information coming into my brain, I might go insane.
It’s awful, and unhealthy, and I’m trying to figure out how to escape this paranoid insanity, but it’s what I’ve got until I can figure out the fix. Reminds me, need to schedule my next therapist appointment.
unless I have a constant stream of information coming into my brain, I might go insane
I felt the same way. It’s an upbringing thing, and I’m not sure it was due to being raised poor by parents always jobbing – dad was employed for 5 different jobs at one point. I gotta be working.
My wife was raised by parents with job security and lived in one house her entire childhood. Parents were home at 4 and then 5, and knew (and taught) healthy disagreement over contentious issues. Her whole family is a breath of fresh air vs the raccoons my family must resemble.
She took me on a vacation, kike the first one I ever had. It was to the Dominican, just some resort (occidental in punta cana). I asked what our plans were while we were there, because I gotta have that calendar full.
“Nothing,” she said.
“Nothing?”
“Nothing.”
And we did, largely, nothing. 10 days, beach chairs and impeccable waiters at beck and call. We saw the whales and did a snorkel, and we went to the Amelia supermarket for snacks…
But really we sat and watched the ocean. We talked like spouses should, holding hands and breathing easily. There was no work, no issues, no jobs; and, above all the cost of going and staying, the big thing a trip like that did was to get us away from the churn and swirl and rumbling gnawing stress of western life.
You may not realize it, but you need some downtime: real downtime.
Don’t go anywhere fancy, but turn the phone over and just be for a sec. Be you, be present, be interactive, be observant; and just breathe.
I found it life-changing. We don’t go to fancy places very often, but we do reserve some time to be ourselves like that, and it’s a very good thing.
Maybe it’ll help for you too? Either way, I hope you find that balance and sanctuary too, so you can exist for just a calming moment without the fear of missing out on the trivia-stream.
Exercise:
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Set a timer for 1 minute.
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Sit down and do nothing.
Do that every day. After a while, you’ll adjust and it wont be painful. Then do 2 minutes. Then do 5. Then do 15. Every day.
Here’s what happened:
You’ve lived your entire life in a bowl of cocaine. You were born into it. When your parents wanted a break, they gave you some coke. When you were good, they gave you some coke. After you completed your homework, you were allowed a little coke. When you grew up, if you feel tired, or feel like you don’t want to do something, you can have a little nose candy to recharge.
If you want to stop using so much cocaine, you can’t just go cold turkey. You need to start by being able to survive one minute at a time without it.
It’s easy to just remove the bowl of cocaine and not use cocaine. But that’s not going to help you practice choosing not to do cocaine when it is available.
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The only way to get better is to stop consuming content! Choose a weekend, tell your friends you will be out of touch, and turn off your phone for a couple of days (if you can’t do that, just shut off WIFI and data so you can still text/call). It really won’t be as bad as you think, and you might even like it - but you will have to do stuff to occupy your hands. Cook, walk, read easy books, exercise, etc.
Belive me, I’ve tried. I’m an asssitant scoutmaster for my kids troop, and we camp about monthly in the summer. So, I’ve got lots of phone free weekends behind me. I’m also got kids in sports too, so go to games and meets.
I’m taking steps but I still have work to do.
Don’t take big steps. Take small ones.
In the running world, there’s this thing called “Couch-to-5k”. Its a progran that can literally take you from square one - the couch - to a non-stop 5k run. Its all about small gains and slow incremental progress.
A few small conscious efforts to disconnect from your phone every day, even for 15 mins at a time, will slowly add up to bigger and bigger gains over time. If you can break the impulse to check your phone by disrupting the immediate availability of your phone, you might be able to get the ball rolling pretty quickly.
My phone was $800, I think. Of COURSE I’m not taking it in to the shower!! 😧 I don’t even take it into the bathroom.
i use mine when i take a shower to play music that i can use to time how long it takes. i do not have it in the shower stall with me just hooked up to a bluetooth speaker on a shelf above the toilet next to the stall. the phone itself is laid on the lavatory counter about a meter from the shower and covered by the clothes i removed prior to getting wet so it doesnt get any water at all on it
If you can’t take a bath without your phone you might have a problem.
But how else am I going to use the app for my shower’s water temperature and pressure and massage pattern and RGB lighting?
People take their phones in the shower!? Braver folks than I, I paid over 1k for that shit and I’m not risking it.
Part of that $1k went into water proofing it. I paid for it, might as well make use of that feature.
Fair enough
Personally I need the danger to feel alive.
Also, you should look into buying second hand phones, $1000 is crazy.
ITT: who the fuck brings their phone in the shower?
And they’re right.
