Well come to find out!

[Catt]

Cell phones don't like water!

 

It only takes 1/4" to fry one & a week+ to get most of my data back.

[TnRiver46]

Oh no……

[DaubsNU1]

Nooooooooo!    : (

[MN Fisher]

Ouch...

[casts_by_fly]

eek.  Sounds like you need a new one.  Lots of the current models are waterproof and submersible.  Not sure which brand you prefer (I'm apple) but I can say that an iphone 11 will survive a complete immersion.  Mine fell out of my pocket while cleaning the pool last week and fluttered to the bottom of the pool like a jigging spoon.  No ill effects.  Not even a glitch of the screen.  Just dry it on your pants and keep going.

[GreenPig]

My Galaxy S 21 Ultra 5G is waterproof but it should be as it's 80% platinum apparently.

[Bird]

 

When I'm on the boat, phone goes in a Pelican 1040 phone case, water tight and it floats.

Thinking I'm still on a Galaxy S7.

 

The worst thing that could happen is loosing a phone over board and not having your contacts backed up.

A few people I've not heard from in 3 years because I won't answer a non contact. Oooops

 

[Darth-Baiter]

i'm a disaster waiting to happen.  my phone is in peril on my kayak.  

[casts_by_fly]

I wear either my jacket or my hooded shirt when fishing, both of which have a zippered chest pocket. The phone stays there until I am taking a picture. Water is no problem. Losing it would suck because it’s my work phone too annd would need a new sim.  Always back up your entire phone to the cloud. That’s the easiest solution to never missing data. 

[N Florida Mike]

I saved one once by submerging it in a bag of rice. After a few hours it was as good as new.

The second time it happened, it was on my kayak. I even had it in a ziplock back on the dry end of the ‘yak. Water got in somehow… the rice trick didn’t work that time.

[VolFan]

Lost one kayaking long ago - Flipped it open to answer a call or take a pic and it kept going. It worked for about the first twenty feet of depth. Lost a pair of sunglasses reaching for it. That 3 seconds cost me about $500.

[Catt]

12 hours in rice did nothing!

 

It was on the edge of the lavatory, something I never do is bring my phone in the bathroom. There wasn't but a 1/4" of water but the phone slide down stopping with just the top submerged. The top is where the speaker is & some other opening. Slowly recovering data daily.

[Woody B]

I fell in the lake with my Galaxy S8 in my pocket.  It was fine afterward.  It's IP68 rated. (I think that means it's waterproof).  I upgraded to an Iphone 13.  It's also supposed to be waterproof but I haven't fell in the lake with it in my pocket yet.  

[clayton86]

I had an oops with my old iphone4 getting wet several times. I swear the old iPhone was built better than the new ones. I shattered the screen when deployed it fell out of a HMMWV and hit pavement shattered the screen. Paid haji $5 in Kuwait City to put a new one on and worked like new.
 

Once back I was fishing and leaned over to land a steelhead and had it in a chest pocket and it fell out and landed in the river. Rice trick got it working again. Then when kayaking I accidentally kicked it overboard in 8 fow and soon as I heard that splash I instantly knew what happened. I saw it on bottom emptied pockets and dove in and got it. Paddled back to shore put it on dash of my truck to dry in the sun. Once done fishing that day I drove around blasting the heat in July to dry it. It worked doing that for 2 days.

 

phone still works last I knew/tried I can’t find a charger for it anymore and one I had is chewed up. I used it as a iPod while working on my rod building. 

[HenryPF]

Dropped my phone in like 3ft of murky water - iphone XR. Jumped in the water, submerged my head in there and had my buddy call my phone so i could hear where it was underwater. Use it to this day. No issues.