Leash your cell phone

I carry my cell phone in a pocket on my PFD.  The cell phone is water resistant, but I worried about dropping it into the water and losing it.  Then a friend lost his cell phone down an ice fishing hole, and I decided to get smart and put a leash on my phone.  I bought a couple of devices which you put between your phone and a cell phone case which have a little loop of webbing and a ring which stick out of the charging cord hole in the case, to provide a place to attach a leash.  And I bought a retractable lanyard.  I clip the retractable lanyard to a loop of cord tied around a shoulder strap of my PFD, and I attach the phone to the lanyard with a loop of spectra cord.  Now I feel a lot safer when I use my phone on the water.

Nice. I have a cellphone at the bottom of Monterey canyon and one off the continental shelf. Lost many more getting saltwater in the ports kayak fishing. Water resistant doesn't mean saltwater resistant, a drop of it in the charging port and your phone is done.

I use a Lifeproof waterproof case, which has a lanyard attachment point in the lower left corner.
It’s completely waterproof, and solidly attached to my PFD. 

I just started using a Robohawk Talon tether (https://www.robohawk.us/collections/phone-hawk-tethers/products/talon-phone-tether) a few weeks ago.  So far, so good.

I just started using a Robohawk Talon tether (https://www.robohawk.us/collections/phone-hawk-tethers/products/talon-phone-tether) a few weeks ago.  So far, so good.

There are a variety of phone tether systems like the Robohawk Talon which are based on rubber straps which stretch over the corners of a phone. None of those systems would work with my Samsung phone because the straps would cross several buttons on the sides of the phone, and either push them or make them un-pushable. That's why I ended up going with a tether system based on a tab with an attachment point which goes inside a cell phone case.

I thought they'd get in the way of my phone iPhone SE2 but not issues.

Kevin