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?
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.
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.
Front right pocket for phone, front left pocket for keys, back right pocket for wallet if in uncrowded area, front left.
If it’s crowded in winter, it all changes. I have a Columbia jacket with zipper pockets on the side and one chest pocket. Phone and keys stay on their corresponding sides (or even still in the pants because the jacket covers my pockets and who wants to steal a six year old cracked LG?), while wallet goes into the chest pocket.
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.
Right handed, so right pocket, spun round so the screen faces outward, wallet and keys in the left, or keys on a lanyard thing clipped to me depending on if they’re my car keys or work keys that actually go into a door
Picked that habbit up during the “put the lock button on the back” craze and would have constant issues of it vibrating in my pocket from the lock screen button being tapped and my leg barely managing to tap numbers randomly through my pocket
Also with charging port facing down to prevent lint build up in there. Took awhile to get used to it, but it’s saved me a lot of hassle with bad cable connections.
Non-dominant hand holds your phone, so that’s the pocket side where your phone should live.
EDIT:
A few people seem to be confused because apparently they use their phone one handed right from the start when it comes out of their pocket. With the size of phones these days i would guess that most people aren’t using their phones one handed that way.
Personally I’ll use my phone one handed if I’m stationary and after it’s fully out of my pocket and securely in my hands, but if I’m moving around it would be drop-city if I just pulled it out of my pocket one handed and started tapping on it.
I assume zillions of people. The holding is the dumb part that either hand can do, the interacting with the screen is the much more active and precise part that obviously is better accomplished with your dominant hand.
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My purse? Then after that my jacket. I don’t use my pants pockets.
some follow up questions: if you put it in your back pocket how often do you sit on it? is your screen always cracked?
never cracked a screen but 90% of the time I take it out as I sit down
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.
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.
Front right pocket for phone, front left pocket for keys, back right pocket for wallet if in uncrowded area, front left.
If it’s crowded in winter, it all changes. I have a Columbia jacket with zipper pockets on the side and one chest pocket. Phone and keys stay on their corresponding sides (or even still in the pants because the jacket covers my pockets and who wants to steal a six year old cracked LG?), while wallet goes into the chest pocket.
If I’m not wearing a sportcoat it goes in my back right pocket. If I am it goes in my inside left.
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.
Right handed, so right pocket, spun round so the screen faces outward, wallet and keys in the left, or keys on a lanyard thing clipped to me depending on if they’re my car keys or work keys that actually go into a door
Picked that habbit up during the “put the lock button on the back” craze and would have constant issues of it vibrating in my pocket from the lock screen button being tapped and my leg barely managing to tap numbers randomly through my pocket
If it’s warm out, having my phone in my pocket facing my leg keeps calling 911 through the emergency functionality on the lock screen.
If anyone knows how to remove that altogether on an S22, that would be amazing.
Pocket Mode: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artemchep.pocketmode
You must use this app. It automatically locks your screen and disable the touchscreen so it does not accidentally dial numbers or anything.
My S22U automatically blocks touches when it’s in my pocket (or when I pick it up from the top and cover the sensor.)
I thought that was a standard feature for Samsungs?
My pixel 5 was supposed to do that as well, it just doesn’t seem to work well anymore.
Not sure about the S22, but look for a “tap to wake” or similar option and turn it off. I had the same issue with my pixel 5.
My S22U will still block touches even with the tap to wake on.
Also with charging port facing down to prevent lint build up in there. Took awhile to get used to it, but it’s saved me a lot of hassle with bad cable connections.
Non-dominant hand holds your phone, so that’s the pocket side where your phone should live.
EDIT:
A few people seem to be confused because apparently they use their phone one handed right from the start when it comes out of their pocket. With the size of phones these days i would guess that most people aren’t using their phones one handed that way.
Personally I’ll use my phone one handed if I’m stationary and after it’s fully out of my pocket and securely in my hands, but if I’m moving around it would be drop-city if I just pulled it out of my pocket one handed and started tapping on it.
Who holds their phone with their non dominant hand??
People who then proceed to navigate and use it with their dominant hand, like me.
Me, just feels easier when I need to zoom in or do anything non phone related with my dominant hand.
I assume zillions of people. The holding is the dumb part that either hand can do, the interacting with the screen is the much more active and precise part that obviously is better accomplished with your dominant hand.
I hold it with my dominant hand, why would you hold it with your bad hand? That seems contra productive
I hold with non-dom hand and type with Dom finger
I hold and type with the same hand, why would you use another hand? I just tried typing like that and its impossible very slow and unprecise
Do I have big hands? I hold it with my dominant hand and Swype type with my thumb
Do you type with your index finger?
As a bisexual i mean ambidextrous person I keep it in my left front pocket or right back pocket
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Nice try, the pickpocket that I will walk pass tomorrow.
My phone is in my front right pocket because I can take my phone out and use it with just one hand. Wallet and keys in the front left.
Front right
Wallet in the left, phone in the right, keys in the back right (chained to my belt).
A month ago I got a murse, my phone goes on it now asking with my wallet and keys and change. I can’t go back.
Right butt pocket, or in the purse if I’ll be sitting down for a while.