You can’t change my mind.

That’s not a good thing. That attitude limits you from improving how you do things because you’ve gotten emotionally attached to some arbitrary … never mind. Have a nice day.

I just keep buying phones with headphone jacks. I use bluetooth headphones too, but have a wired set for fallback, especially when travelling.

Also, if you’re on a call or vc, a good wired set wth a well placed mike on the wire (e.g. marshall mode) gives you better sound quality and better exclusion of environment noise than any bluetooth headphones, and you don’t have to worry about earbud batteries running out mid call.

It limits phone selection a lot, but so far there has been good phones with headphone jacks every time

Sounds like you’re taking the Sims pretty seriously ;)

Still nothing to support that it’s not actually ip68 rated as advertised.

Perhaps you’re just wrong it this? It’s fine to be wrong sometimes

I don’t see that mentioning anything about covering the headphone jack before the test. As I understand it, being ip65/68 means it’s both, where 65 is “low power spray” and 68 is “immersion”, not that it’s 68 only if some unspecified conditions are applied

Asus zenphone 10, for example. IP68, headphone jack

I’m sure there are and have been others

The removal of headphone jacks or sdcards have nothing to do with ip68 rating. It’s to sell adapters and to make you pay a lot for extra storage

Imagine all the military contracts for keeping climate refugees away!