Do you Shower with your iPhone 7?

TWO2SEVEN said:
Oh, I get it. You're one of those people who thinks anything that you don't agree with is stupid. I see now.
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Not generally no, this is a discussion after all. This particular topic however is discussing taking a phone into a room where there is lots of water and circumstances where is could be damaged.

I don't believe people need to text while they are taking a 5-10 minute shower and yes if it breaks their phone I do believe they are 'stupid' in this instance. The phone is designed as water resistant but I doubt that extends to showers or a swimming pool. It's common sense at the end of the day and I'm glad the majority here have plenty of that.

People spend far too much time glued to smartphones, do yourself a favour and have a shower in peace lol.
 
I don't take it with me in the shower, though I keep it within reach. I have had an urgent text (yes, that can happen) and I frequently change songs. However I dry my hands/arms throroughly before I do so, so that the phone does not actually get wet (nor does it actually enter the shower)
I also take quite cold showers (with the door open), so steam is never an issue.

I have showered with Sony Xperia Z products in the past though. But at best it distracted me from my original purpose (though when you have to let the conditioner sit in for a few minutes, or a hair mask, it wouldn't be the worst thing to have a device that is actually water proof enough to survive showers).
 
No.

Sometimes I put it in a waterproof bag to watch a show if I'm taking a bath on the weekend.

I've put it underwater, and I've rinsed it off. But I'm not going to get grimey soap on it—soap scum, hairs, dirt, sand, etc. I can wait a few minutes to check my notifications, lol. I also worry about it overheating.
 
Mefisto said:
It's always been a mystery to me why anyone would want to listen to music during a shower. You're, or at least I am while showering, under running water, do you even hear the music that's playing? Not to mention the acoustics, for which bathrooms are not exactly known for. I have had a sound system in my sauna once, and that was pure heaven. But a shower, never tried it so it sounds kind of odd. No pun intended, and obviously YMMV.
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For the longest time, I have listened to music or the radio in the shower. I had one of those old shower CD/FM Radios with a built in mirror. Since then, I would have either laptop, phone or ipad playing music in the bathroom on the counter away from any possible water damage and had never had a problem in the 8+ years I've been doing that. I have now switched to a water resistant bluetooth speaker that I have in the shower and keep the phone still on the counter. I don't think I'll ever bring my iPhone 7+ into the shower itself. For the phone, I'm treating the water resistance as a protective measure in case of accidents.
 
Mefisto said:
It's always been a mystery to me why anyone would want to listen to music during a shower. You're, or at least I am while showering, under running water, do you even hear the music that's playing? Not to mention the acoustics, for which bathrooms are not exactly known for. I have had a sound system in my sauna once, and that was pure heaven. But a shower, never tried it so it sounds kind of odd. No pun intended, and obviously YMMV.
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I sometimes like music in the shower. I dont run my head/ears under running water the whole time. I wouldn't be able to keep my eyes open or breathe if i did that.
 
itsray said:
sometimes it like to use a hair dryer while in the shower.
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It's faster to combine steps. Washing clothes and then using the clothes drier takes too long. It works much faster to just throw the dirty clothes in the drier with 5 gallons of water and some soap. Turn the heat up high, and then it's all done much faster.

Sometimes the dishes need done too. So I just throw them in with the clothes.

It's much more efficient.
 
This thread.
Showering doesn't always last "60 seconds" (wat) or even "5 minutes".
Showers often have soap shelves where a propped up iphone would only get the occasional splash of water, not hot jets of high pressure water.
There are 99 legitimate reasons to have an iphone under the shower. Watching live news while soaping up (water not running). Convenience (texting could wait but..why should it? If the IP67 rating means anything at all). And yes, facetime and pr0n, not judging. You may or may not personally agree with all the above but some of the responses are hilariously luddite. We should just be excited about the day when ALL our gadgets will be waterproof and shower/pool-ready. Water apparently is a fact of life.
 
Other than the already mentioned safety issues, personally I just don't like my phone smelling of Johnson's No More Tears Shampoo.

While the iPhone might not get constant exposure to pressurised water, the humidity in a shower might make it harder to grip and more likely to get dropped. A dent or crack will compromise the water resistance. Some protective cases aren't waterproof and many ones that are, will retain the water after the shower, which takes some time to clean off. If you really must take a phone to a shower, a waterproof bag is the way to go.
 
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The last thing I would do is shower with my iPhone 7 Plus. Now with the Apple Watch Series 2, I would probably shower with and have. I have not had any problems with the water resistance on the Watch. I wouldn't try getting my iPhone wet since it seems like Apple is not completely confident in their water resistance since they don't cover water damage. They cover water damage on the Watch, so that has helped me make my decision. ;)
 
giggles said:
This thread.
Showering doesn't always last "60 seconds" (wat) or even "5 minutes".
Showers often have soap shelves where a propped up iphone would only get the occasional splash of water, not hot jets of high pressure water.
There are 99 legitimate reasons to have an iphone under the shower. Watching live news while soaping up (water not running). Convenience (texting could wait but..why should it? If the IP67 rating means anything at all). And yes, facetime and pr0n, not judging. You may or may not personally agree with all the above but some of the responses are hilariously luddite. We should just be excited about the day when ALL our gadgets will be waterproof and shower/pool-ready. Water apparently is a fact of life.
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Yeah, unfortunately, that is not today. So if you do take your phone in the shower, don't cry like the people we are seeing on this forum about how "this is false advertising; my phone is defective because it broke in water; etc.".

You are free to do what you want with your device. Just don't blame Apple later if it fails.

We all know what everyone is going to do if their phones break from water damage in the shower, in a pool, etc. "Oh, I don't know. Some water splashed on it when I was washing my hands, but that was it..."

In case you missed the other thread, you all misinterpreted what an IP67 rating means for the phone. Showers, pools, underwater photos, etc. are NOT protected, and Apple specifically warns against it.

Why? Steam are smaller particles suspended in the air which can penetrate the water resistance membranes and ingress into the device, causing corrosion and other damage which may not show immediately. The IP67 rating was achieved in static water, in a controlled laboratory environment. Not chlorinated water. Not salt water. Not soap water. Static water with good hydrogen bonding. STATIC: as in, no jets, streams, showers, etc. No velocity caused by jumping in a pool, pushing off to get to the bottom of a pool, swimming around to get to your desired underwater photo spot.

Sorry you made up your own definition of IP67 water RESISTANCE. You clearly cannot read.
 
NovemberWhiskey said:
Yeah, unfortunately, that is not today. So if you do take your phone in the shower, don't cry like the people we are seeing on this forum about how "this is false advertising; my phone is defective because it broke in water; etc.".

You are free to do what you want with your device. Just don't blame Apple later if it fails.

We all know what everyone is going to do if their phones break from water damage in the shower, in a pool, etc. "Oh, I don't know. Some water splashed on it when I was washing my hands, but that was it..."

In case you missed the other thread, you all misinterpreted what an IP67 rating means for the phone. Showers, pools, underwater photos, etc. are NOT protected, and Apple specifically warns against it.

Sorry you made up your own definition of IP67 water RESISTANCE.
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Seems like falling in the pool with it is the kind of thing Apple had in mind as far as what would be protected based on their keynote discussion of this feature.
 
C DM said:
Seems like falling in the pool with it is the kind of thing Apple had in mind as far as what would be protected based on their keynote discussion of this feature.
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Yep. And Apple is likely to cover those things, despite it explicitly warning that water damage is NOT covered under warranty.

But an IP67 rating does not guarantee any protection from those things. And it is amazing how people have taken a rating to mean such things.

All the IP 67 rating means, is that a laboratory was able to put a phone between 15 cm and 1m of static water for UP TO 30 min, without substantial damage caused by ingress of water, under controlled lab conditions. That is not a guarantee of anything.

If I buy a car with a 5-star front impact crash rating, I should know that that is no guarantee that I am going to achieve those same results if I have a car crash. And it surely doesn't mean I should start driving like an idiot. It means that based on a controlled test, in a laboratory where they test car crashes, they were able to achieve certain results. They are guidelines, people.
 
I also dropped my iPhone 7 on an outdoor jacuzzi my first weekend with it. I would'nt normally take my phone anywhere near a jacuzzi, but with the water resistance of the thing, I felt confident to have it near the tub and manipulating it while on it.
 
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