I have no idea why someone would need anything other than a pocket. I have one of the biggest if not the biggest phone and it fits comfortably in my front pocket.
I wear a fanny pack as it’s the most practical option on the handcycle. My shoulder bag is strapped to the rear rack and not accessible while riding.
Not only is my phone in the fanny pack, so is my checkbook.
When hiking I use a holster on my backpack strap. I also have a holster attached to the ROPS on the tractor for when I’m crashing around in the woods clearing fallen trees. A phone in a pocket is likely to get squashed or fall out.
But in normal dress? No. Not since phones got small enough to fit in a pants pocket.
Oh, that’s that paper venmo thing, right?
There was this trend here back in the 90s, where guys would wear fanny packs - but not on our waists. Instead, we would wear them across our backs, over the left shoulder and under our right arm, with the pouch itself in the middle of our back like a very small backpack. The only way to get to the pouch was to open the snap release and take the whole thing it off. It still looked ridiculous, and was totally impractical, but at least it wasn’t on our butts.
You’re quite learned when it comes to outmoded forms of payment. I award you a string of shells. The Pony Express should be there in a few days.
When I think fanny pack here in the US, it’s part of a mental image that involves high white socks, khaki shorts, a polo shirt, and a fanny pack worn with the pack part in front like some sort of surrogate kangaroo pouch.
But that’s also the year that, high in the mountains along the Italian-Austrian border, a pair of German tourists stumbled across a frozen corpse. At first, rescuers assumed they’d recovered the body of an unfortunate hiker. They weren’t wrong, but this particular hiker had lain there for roughly 5,000 years. The mummy, who became an international celebrity called Otzi the Iceman, was astonishingly well-preserved, right down to his accessories, which included a calfskin belt affixed with a pouch containing handy items such as “tinder fungus, a scraper, a boring tool, a bone awl, and a flint flake.”
Fanny packs are now being worn like crossbody bags across the chest. They’re marketed a little different, but they’re still fanny packs!
I’m lucky to remember to take it with me when I leave the apartment, and it sometimes doesn’t even get turned on for days at a time, so no. But my battery lasts a long time.
I tried a phone holster eons ago but soon discarded it, for the following reasons:
- I prefer work chairs with armrests, and the phone holster tended to snag on them
- A belt holster is uncomfortable for people with me with bulgage above and below the belt.
Instead I carry my phone in my right front jeans pocket (I invariably wear five pocket jeans; the left pocket is for handkerchiefs and pocket knife).
That has proved to be the most comfortable way to carry my phone. It’s an Iphone 13 pro at present, in an Otterbox Defender case which adds to its bulk, and it’s still comfortable to carry in my front pocket.
In fact when I am on a bike tour and the phone is in its handlebar holder I sometimes get that sudden shock when a familiar object is not felt in its usual place.
My Otterbox Defender case came with a belt clip but I do not use that for the two reasons named above.
I’ve been using these holsters for years, never, ever had one slip off. I end up getting a new one about every year, mostly because the velcro wears out. Upside is I no longer carry a wallet, either, all my necessary cards fit right inside. If I have cash (rarely), it goes in one of the phone-free front pockets.
Agree that holsters look dorky but also think something like that is useful.
My phone is a bit big to be in my trouser pocket and let me sit down comfortably. Leaving it on a table takes up table space on a small table and is easily forgotten on a big table.
I don’t use a phone holster, but then I normally carry a shoulder bag & the phone lives in a pocket of that.
I got into the habit when I was travelling overseas quite a bit in countries that are not necessarily that fond of Americans.
Obviously, no Red-Blooded American Male would be caught dead using a sissy shoulder bag, so it helped to maintain some sort of anonymity (they usually guessed I was French, for some reason)… 
I could not care less about anyone considering me dorky for whatever reason(s). If you care, that is a much more important problem for you than being considered dorky.
Ooh! Thanks for the tip.
My wife carries a fanny pack, but does not wear it. She might sling it over her shoulder. The whole purse thing is dead to her. She can wear it if she want’s to.
I own one, and a really nice one I got from Amazon, but pretty much I only wear cargo pants and shorts, so I have barely used it.
I voted no. But I have my phone (old, small size) enclosed in a leather book book case and I sometimes stick it in my bra. Does that count as a holster?
Yes, in more ways than one.