l etoile

I’ve been looking and it appears what’s available are pouches. Ideally I’d like a case, but maybe it has to be a pouch. I saw the Salt cases and can only find them to fit up to iPhone 7s, I think. I need one for a 13.

Suggestions for cases, or pouches, if that’s what it needs to be? I’ve got a Phoozy pouch in my shopping cart, but still hoping for a case.
thanks

der_saeufer

What's your use case? I've had all sorts of phones in all sorts of regular cases well below 0F/-20C without any issues other than the usual temporary loss of capacity with cold Li-ion batteries. Keeping your phone in an inside jacket pocket works better than a bag or cargo pocket on your pants.

l etoile

My regular case is just a basic one to prevent scratches primarily. I’m wanting to be able to use my phone for photos and navigation in low temps. Unfortunately, my experience has been that it lasts about 10 minutes and doesn’t rewarm until back inside.

der_saeufer

Not a lot will help that other than finding a way to keep the phone warm--it doesn't generate enough of its own heat that a case will help much--particularly since anything that lets you use the screen lets heat escape through it unabated. The reflective pouches like the Phoozy are definitely better than nothing but there's no substitute for keeping the phone as close to a heat source (eg your body) as possible. Even if it's only 10C/50F under your jacket, that's way better than freezing the phone outside.

l etoile

Thanks.

GUWonder

I spend a fair bit of the coldest days of Januaries on the icy cold and windy ski slopes of Upper Peninsula Michigan and the Swedish mountains. I don’t carry any special pouches for my phones to be used on the slopes and in the very much wind exposed lifts there, but I do keep the phone inside an interior pocket of either my ski jacket or inside of an inner layer. I could perhaps do marginally better to get more in-hand — in-glove really — phone use outdoors on the mountainside in the winter by having the phone in a pouch flush with my skin with a heated chemical hand warmer pouch in the phone carrying pouch, but it hasn’t done enough good for me or the phone to not just stick the phone inside an interior/body-facing pocket of my jacket or an inner layer inside the jacket.

StuckInYYZ

This. If you're going to be somewhere where it's going to be extremely cold for extended periods of time, I'd suggest having a few of the skiing . I keep a box of these on hand in case of power failure or if in the car, getting stuck somewhere. Before the BB date, they can last at least a few hours. Keeping one or two activated ones on the inside of your jacket will keep you warm and if you carry your phone in there too, it definitely makes a difference.

l etoile

I’ve mushed dogs a lot and always lost my battery quickly and didn’t get it back. It didn’t matter much since the dogs and I knew where we were. Now I’m venturing out where I don’t want to lose it. The Phoozy case should at least warm it back up in 30 minutes, I guess. Thanks for the advice.

pseudoswede

Keeping your phone up against your body as much as possible is your best bet. I would also recommend bringing a portable battery pack (and also keeping it warm) as a backup.