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Nice try, pickpocket on the metro

For me it was always clear to have my wallet in my right pocket and my phone in the left one. I never questioned this until now..

Nice try pickpocketer!

Phone right front. Wallet right back.

Keys left front. You can't keep a phone and keys in the same pocket. Especially not with the size of modern phones.

Consistency means I always know if I've forgotten my phone keys/wallet. There's never searching or wondering where they've gone.

Left, because my keys are in my right pocket and I don’t want to scratch the phone

Right handed, right pocket 95% of the time. Occasionally I catch myself using the left pocket if for whatever reason storing it in the right requires an awkward movement.

Right handed, left pocket.

When I was deciding what went where, I drove a car with actual locks and cell phones were really only for calls, you didn't spend all day looking at it. So my keys spent more time in my hands than my phone did.

Now it's a habit and I can't change it.

I use whichever pocket is handy, and I can be seen checking all my pockets every 45 seconds to remind me which pocket my phone is in, lest I need it.
Rinse and repeat.

Right handed, left pocket.

Car keys in right pocket. Phone in left. I think it's because cell phones weren't very common when I started driving, haha. So my keys beat my phone to the right pocket by about 2 years or so.

Wallet and Keys in left pocket, phone and everything else in right.

I never use the back pocket.

Pocket? I keep everything in a cross body bag.

I’m the same, right handed but phone in left and use phone with left hand.

I keep my phone in my right pocket and keys in the left pocket. I started this habit in high school in 1998 when I got my first phone and just have carried the habit along, it is the most convenient for me.

Left. Because my keys, cigarettes, and lighter are in the right and there's no more room for the phone.

Left handed, right pocket. Nothing else goes in that pocket.

Back left pocket

Left handed, left pocket, nothing else in that pocket. Sometimes left coat or jacket pocket but prefer pants.

Between my butt cheeks as it helps me stay fit by clenching my butt all day.

Also, in my roght pocket as I'm right handed and use my phone a lot.

No preferred pocket for anything. I put my phone in any pocket is easily reached with the hand is holding the phone at that moment.

Sometimes is the front pocket, sometimes is the back pocket, the pocket of the hoodie, inner pocket of the jacket, a bag, breast pocket of a shirt if it is big enough.

I'm too inconsistent to even know what pocket it is the majority of the time.

Right handed, phone front left, keys front right, wallet back right. It's a perfect system. Not sure about other countries but in the US the key start is always on the right side of the steering column and I unlock doors with my right hand.

None. It's in my messenger bag, or sometimes in a small belt bag of some sort. Why? Because I don't need constantly access my phone as I seldom use it ;)

Thinking about it, I tend to keep nothing in my pockets.

Huh, I just considered I don't have a typical pocket I put my phone in. I'm right handed and I think I tend to put my phone in my left pocket more? Maybe? But I just took it out of my right pocket so I'm not sure.

Right handed. My wallet is in my left pocket, since anything that I need to do with it will involve holding it with my left and doing the thing with my right.

Both my phones (home and work) are in my right, since I can carry out basic functions on them one handed.

Nice try, phone thieves.

Right

I'm a fan of keyless entry systems in my house, and nobody really uses cash here, so I can go out with nothing more than a phone

Right, plus car keys.

Earbud case and home keys on the left.

Whichever pocket doesn't conain the keys.

And the keys go in whichever pocket doesn't contain my phone.

Left handed, right pocket if I use pockets. One hand to hold and unlock, the other to primarily use the screen, left index, right thumb. Back in the day when my phone was smaller than my hand I would have it in my left, and use two thumbs if typing.