When you shower, do you just put your clothes on and have no access to a towel?
The first iPhone that claimed to be water resistant was the iPhone 7, which was the first iPhone to remove the headphone jack. Android phones solved water resistance with a headphone jack years before that. It was released in 2016, 3 years after the wave of Android phones that were water resistant. I'm a little surprised that it was that long ago but it also makes me question how water resistant the phones are.
Your contrived use cases in the shower come across as someone who hasn't tried to use their phone in the shower. Cases easily come off, towels exist, shower caddies exist, places where your soap isn't under a constant stream of water exist, and screens work pretty well in the shower if you aren't trying to use it under a direct stream of water in your face.
I've personally never seen the feature touted in Apple advertising, so it seems fragile to me. Although I guess the number of stories I hear of people using the bathroom and needing to replace their phone because it fell in the toilet has decreased. My iPhone using friends are usually surprised when I say I regularly use my Sony in the shower.
If the iPhone actually is capable of handling water finally, maybe the screen is just particularly bad with water on it.
The first iPhone that claimed to be water resistant was the iPhone 7, which was the first iPhone to remove the headphone jack. Android phones solved water resistance with a headphone jack years before that. It was released in 2016, 3 years after the wave of Android phones that were water resistant. I'm a little surprised that it was that long ago but it also makes me question how water resistant the phones are.
Your contrived use cases in the shower come across as someone who hasn't tried to use their phone in the shower. Cases easily come off, towels exist, shower caddies exist, places where your soap isn't under a constant stream of water exist, and screens work pretty well in the shower if you aren't trying to use it under a direct stream of water in your face. I've personally never seen the feature touted in Apple advertising, so it seems fragile to me. Although I guess the number of stories I hear of people using the bathroom and needing to replace their phone because it fell in the toilet has decreased. My iPhone using friends are usually surprised when I say I regularly use my Sony in the shower.
If the iPhone actually is capable of handling water finally, maybe the screen is just particularly bad with water on it.