Ask Lemmy

Not me. I always used the phone in the rain if i needed to. It's a nice plusy, but I woundnt trust the ip rating enough to carry the phone in wet swimming trunks after swimming.

No, I grew up with phones (and electronics in general) not being water tight or resistant so I sort of still have the mindset of not taking my phone near lakes/bathtubs and putting it away when it's raining.

Haven't really had a problem with water damage in all the years of owning phones. Most of my phones were not water tight/resistant because they were older Nokias, had a replaced battery or are Fairphones.

People don't, but companies do.

Company A might get a contract to do whatever thing for Company B and the contract says "all equipment brought on site by your team must be this or that or whatever IP Rating".

It's an insurance / liability thing.

I look at it a bit but then throw it out at the same time since I've heard that they'll invalidate the warranty for water damage even if the IP rating says it should have handled it.

Sorta. I live in the Ohio Valley. It can literally be sunny one moment and the next be raining cats and dogs. I've walked out of the house and where I was standing, it was sunny, but 20 feet away it was raining. It's pretty wild.

Nope. Never had a water-related incident with any cellphone in the 20ish years I've been using them. Just not relevant to my life.

Not really, I just assume it can handle being rained on.

I dunno about everyone else, but definitely not me.

I don't swim and I'm not prone to dropping my phone in the toilet.

Also, if you get even one drop of water on the screen, the touchscreen doesn't even work correctly.

Electronic devices aren't meant to get wet in the first place.

Nope.

Nope

Nope. I haven't bought anything other than a Pixel since they were known as Nexus. Originally because they were cheap, but decent, then because they were easy to tinker with, and now because it's the only phone that runs Graphene OS. If I need to buy a new phone, I just look for whichever Pixel is cheapest, and that's my new phone.

Nope, my current phone isn't even water resistant. It loses resistance over time anyways, so IDC.

Not phone, but I definitely look at IP or Denier ratings for other things.

I won't have money to buy a water resistant phone anyways, so no.

These days the only thing that's remotely worth buying is a Pixel phone that's unlocked so you can get GrapheneOS.