Can you all imagine a compilation of every “case or no case” mega thread on this forum. It’d be huge. 😂
I am clumsy. I use a case to protect against scratches. I don’t have AppleCare and even if I did, the things that I use a case to protect against are not covered by AppleCare. I suppose it is possible that my phone might slip out of my hand some day and break on the ground and that I might regret that decision. But the case will make that less likely both because the case protects from drops and because it is the Apple silicone case and it is grippy. And I have only dropped a phone once. It was my Note 20 Ultra and it survived the fall unscathed. So I’m clumsy in a knock the phone against a door way but not in the drop the phone way.
I have always had cases on my phones, going right back to the flip phone days. I have never had a phone broken in all of that time. The only time I have ever had to get a phone replaced was a Galaxy Note 8, and that was because of a swollen battery. I usually don’t even have any scratches on my phones by the time they reach their end of life. Not that it matters because I always trade them in, instead of trying to sell them.
I couldn’t tell you what any of my friends do because I don’t pay attention. Hell, the only way I know who has an iPhone is by the text bubbles. What I do notice is that when I see people out in public, more people than not have cases on their phones.