{"id":225742,"date":"2025-06-30T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225742\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:41:15","slug":"half-of-bristol-millennials-cant-go-to-the-loo-without-their-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225742\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Bristol millennials can\u2019t go to the loo without their phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research reveals 56% of 28\u201343-year-olds in Bristol check their phones during every toilet trip<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_DSC_3968JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Scrolling through Bristol Live is just one of the many things you can do on the loo with your phone\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Scrolling through Bristol Live is just one of the many things you can do on the loo with your phone<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">More than one in three millennials in Bristol reach for their phones every time they use the toilet, new research has revealed, raising concerns among health experts about hygiene risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A survey commissioned by mobile network operator <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talkmobile.co.uk\" target=\"_new\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Talkmobile<\/a> found that 43% of Bristol residents aged between 28 and 43 admitted to checking their phone \u201cevery\u201d time they go to the loo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A further 13% said they \u201calmost always\u201d do \u2013 meaning over half (56%) of millennials in the city routinely engage in bog browsing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The study, which polled 2,000 adults across the UK, highlighted a wider national trend of toilet-time screen use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Overall, one in four Brits regularly check their phones while using the toilet, with 14% saying they do so \u201cevery time\u201d and 11% doing it \u201cnearly always\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The phenomenon is not limited to millennials. A third (33%) of Generation Z \u2013 those aged 18 to 27 \u2013 said they too consistently scroll while on the loo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Men are generally more likely than women to mix wiping with swiping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fifteen per cent of men check their phone \u201cevery time\u201d, compared with 12% of women. Among millennials, 28% of men do so compared to just 16% of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The figures drop significantly with age. Only 14% of Generation X men (aged 44 to 59) and 5% of baby boomer men (aged 60 and over) reported reaching for their phones every time they visit the toilet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Just 8% of Gen X women and 3% of boomer women said the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Talkmobile commissioned the study as part of its campaign to highlight how mobile phones should support \u2013 not disrupt \u2013 everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Talkmobile spokesperson said: \u201cWe urge all our customers to be disengaged before they become engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research reveals 56% of 28\u201343-year-olds in Bristol check their phones during every toilet tripScrolling through Bristol Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,10648,748,393,4884,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-live","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114770482736418261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}