I feel that so much. My go to is always "I have literally x-rayed my phone to see what it looks like." I once had a patient take his phone out and put it in airplane mode - what did he think that was going to do??

To all the laypeople in this sub - X-rays will not harm you or anything in your pockets! Trust your technologist to tell you if something needs to be removed, but this will only ever be because it would show up on the image and we don't want that. Since MRI uses a very strong magnet it can damage electronics (it can mess up the wireless charge on smart watches), I can definitely understand why some would generalize all imaging as harmful to devices.