Into which pocket do you place your phone?
Despite being right handed, it feels more comfortable to place my phone in my left front pocket. Maybe because having a wallet in my right pocket predates using mobile phones. What feels most natural for you?
Left front pocket for phone only as well, right front pocket for wallet and keys.
I do the same, but years ago I used to do phone in right and keys in left. Then I realized I always needed my keys in my right hand to start my car, so I switched to phone in left and keys in right.
But now I just realized that I've had a keyless ignition for several years now and don't have any reason to keep it this way. I feel like I'm living a lie. Oh God, what am I doing with my life??
Left front pocket is normal.
Same, except I’ll clip my keys onto my belt loop like a janitor lol. Keeping them in my pocket with my wallet gets too bulky and they feel safer clipped in.
Same.
cries in women's pants
We don't even have front pockets, just seams to give the illusion of a pocket!
I used to put mine in my butt pocket (the only semi-useful pocket we usually have), but then I dropped a phone into the toilet once.
This is why I always tuck my phone under my left bra strap when I use the bathroom.
Ha! No way I'm falling for this pick pocket scam.
I specifically moved to using my front pockets for everything because of being worried about pick pockets. I find myself guarding my front pockets with my hands in public. It is also a good way to make sure I have everything I need before leaving the house. If there isn't something there pressing on my legs, something feels off.
Right front is ONLY for my phone. Nothing else. Trash goes to my right back pocket when there is no bin around and everything else is in my backpack since I do not own (and actually not even want) a car.
Agreed on front right solely for phone. Front left is wallet and keys. Back left is the trash pocket. Back right is the utility pocket. Water bottle at a concert, garden gloves if I need to take them off for a bit, various hardware bits and bobs during house repair.
This is the way.
I have lady pockets in the front which do not fit a cellphone, so typically back right pocket.
Seriously, lady pockets are useless.
I use my back pocket as a dude, but it's getting annoying how small those back pockets are compared to the big phones being sold.
I think we should all band together and demand bigger pockets. Come on, Lemmy, I believe in us!
I heard JNCOs are coming back in style
Phone in right front pocket, screen facing my thigh, camera side down. When I pull it out, the phone wakes and I put my fingerprint in.
This is the only correct answer
Same, keys & cards left pocket.
Same, but my cards go with my phone
Same, keys & cards left pocket.
Right-handed, right pocket. I'm surprised to see so many people saying they use their off hand to hold their phone.
Yah that’s what I was thinking
Always left front pocket; front right is for keys and such. I am also right-handed, but hold my phone and scroll with my left thumb, while I use my right hand for other touch-tasks on the screen. Always wondered if I was an outlier, too. (_)
Left pocket is for phone. Right pocket is for keys, smokes, lighter.
Front right for my phone, just makes sense when I'm right handed. Front left pocket is my wallet, keys and microfiber cloth. The microfiber cloth is a necessity for glasses!
Gen Z here, I've basically had a phone most of my life besides when I was young, but I didn't have a wallet then either.
Left pocket. I use my right hand for most things but.. answering the phone or checking a message i can do with the left.
This leaves my right hand open to do whatevet. Like pointing, at ugly people.
Right handed. Keep it in my left pocket.
Nice job OP! Not only is this not a stupid question, this is in fact a fantastic question! Kudos to you!
My phone goes in my left pocket, and I usually hold it with my left hand since I use a swipe keyboard to type, and I'm right handed. My front right is for my money clip, which also contains a few important plastic cards. This was a huge change for me. Keeping cash and cards and nothing else. Absolutely liberating to not have a wallet taking up pocket space.
My keys dangle at my right hip.
Context: I'm a man, and only wear shorts or pants with pockets. I also only buy phones that fit easily into my pockets, so never the extra mega ones.
I'm glad to see how many of us there are that have a system!
Lol this is wild. I am right handed, hold with right hand, use right front pocket, and use right thumb to Swype text. This is like a way more interesting "do you sit to wipe or stand" question.
We're all different! Which is awesome. My giant thumbs just aren't as precise. I can do it, but it's so much easier with the tip of my index.
I'm glad to meet a fellow swiper though! Nice to meet you 956¡ In the wild I only ever meet people who double thumb it like animals, or people who recognize that double thumbing is ridiculous and either voice type or slow type a short message. I don't think I've ever met anyone who swipes every time. I've met a few people who tried it and thought it was too hard, and I get that. But holding my phone in front of me with both hands to type with my two thumbs just makes no sense to me.
If dedicated thumb types out there feel called out, that is my intent! Our thumbs are awesome, but they are not ideal for tapping tiny things precisely. That's just not what they evolved to do!! There's even a saying about being "all thumbs," which refers to being clumsy. Don't be all thumbs! Swipe!
My bra pockets. I shouldn't need a purse for 3 items just because fashion designers failed basic math.
Nice try, pickpocket.
My bag, because I‘m a woman and all my pockets are tiny.
This is truly one of the most glaring examples of women being unequal to men.
Everyone should have useable pockets.
Right pocket; I’m right handed
I used to use front right pocket, but then I transitioned, and girl jeans don't really have pockets that can hold a phone T~T
Either one really. I've never had a specific pocket for anything. Are people really this organized? Am I the heathen?
Nah, you aren't alone at least. I shuffle which pocket I put my phone in almost every time I take it out.
Left, despite being right handed. I'm deaf in my right ear, and while I don't make many phone calls these days, but it's a habit that formed in my flip phone days.
I like your question op causes it’s simple but one that will make you think.
For me, I always put my phone on my left front pocket and my keys to my right pocket. I started to do this because when I was young, I played air hockey at the arcades and the puck smashed my right pants pocket which has my phone then. It broke my screen
Nice try pickpocket.
Technically none, because I'm a weirdo who uses a belt pouch.
It goes on the right side though as the phone is small enough (Pixel 4a) that I can use it one handed with my dominant right.
Left for phone
Right for keys and wallet
Right handed, left pocket. But I also hold it in my left hand and when these damn things were small enough to be one handed, I used my left
Right front pocket, upside down, screen facing meat. No exceptions. I don't even stick other things in there unless I am out of space. I can't afford to break my phone.
Exactly the same as me. Right handed so right pocket, lowest risk of dropping it if I'm using my dominant hand to put it away and pull it out. I wouldn't put anything in that pocket or risk bumping the screen into anything so it faces in. It goes in upside down too because I hold it from the bottom.
Perfectly optimized.
Left front pocket. I’ve kept my keys in front right for most of my life and don’t want to scratch my phone. Actually, left cargo pocket when I can. Roomy, usually buttons or velcro so less risk of losing, less likely to be affected by sitting
Also, I don’t understand people who use their back pocket: aren’t you afraid of breaking your phone by sitting on it? Aren’t you afraid of it falling out of the smaller pocket? Aren’t you afraid of more easily getting robbed?
Very interesting reading all the responses, as I am a rear pocket person. Hate the feeling of having things against my thighs when I move.
Though having it in my back pockets does mean I take them out everytime I sit down.
Same.
Left (non-dominant), though I've really started to resent having to carry one everywhere. Contemplating ways to replace it with a smartwatch for most situations, if that's even doable
Yes, it may be doable, depending on your use case. Aside from reading/browsing, most of my “phone” activity is through my watch. (I don’t have a cellular connection so my phone has to be nearby but I assume watches that do are functionally equivalent)
However actually talking is a weak spot. I can make and receive calls through my watch but sound is horrible
Front left, because I'm left handed. My wallet and keys go in the front right pocket - I almost never use the back pockets unless I'm wearing cargo shorts and carrying a ton of stuff for some reason.
Another lefty in the wild! There are dozens of us!
Do you also look for left handed people in movies?
... well now I'm gonna.
Shirt pocket. I feel weird with it in my pants pocket. Its too big. I wish I could, I miss tshirts.
Does the pocket button up? Have you bent over, say to tie a shoe, and have it slide out?
Does not button and nope.
Back left pocket. Front pockets feel more linty and my phone is tall so sometimes when I'm walking the phone gets in the way of my leg bending forward.
Front right
Before smart phones it was keys and phone in right front, wallet in left front. But now it's wallet and keys in right front, phone in left front.
Anyone else wonder if OP is doing research on where to best pickpocket people? lol
Fanny pack. Is it just me?
Wallet right cargo, phone left front, keys/knife right front, ID left rear. Used to be on my belt to the right at 3 o’clock but that’s where my magazines go now.
Left from pocket. Wallet goes in right pocket with keys.
Right front. I only carry a small card wallet so both go in together fine. Keys and other scratchy stuff in the left.
Left pocket. Right pocket has my wallet since before I had a phone. I’m right handed but if using phone one handed, will use my left.
Left for my wallet (which is chained to me) and right for my phone (which is clipped to me)
Though I will occasionally put my phone into my fanny pack. I have to carry one around that to severe diabetes, so I may as well make usage of it if I have a lot to carry.
Left breast pocket.
If for whatever reason I am wearing a shirt without pockets, left front pocket of pants.
Front left is keys. Front right has my boxcutter. Left cargo pocket is phone. Right cargo is for glasses case for shades or umbrella. Rear left pocket, at work or when I'm doing a project has box gloves. Rear right is wallet. My jacket has one cheap leather glove in each front pocket for weather/driving in the cold.
I put my phone in either of my back packets when wearing pants with for pockets. Never front pockets.
I hope to see someone take all of these answers and create sweet graphs with it.
Front left for phone and change, front right for keys, pocket knife, and lighter. Wallet in right hip pocket unless I’m in a crowd or unfamiliar city. Then it also goes in the front right.
This
Right or left front pocket, I switch every 3 years or so to keep things spicy
Same here, Left front, or sometimes shirt pocket if I have one.
Right handed.
I have my phone in the front right pocket of my jeans, with some microfibre cloth in the litle watch pouch for my glasses and screens, while my wallet, business cards, keys and mints live on the left front side.
Phone in front-left, wallet and a hand towel (Tokyo summers are a sweaty, brutal mess) in right-front. Keys clipped somewhere to my belt loop. back pockets usually empty.
Back left pocket, with my wallet in my back right and its chain attached to my belt loop above my front right pocket. Front right pocket contains a chapstick. Front left is nearly always empty because lady pants front pockets are practically useless.
Front right pocket here. Left is reserved for my wallet and handkerchief.
