There are always signs that show the ban of cigarettes, matches and phones at gas stations. I can imagine fire being dangerous around gas, but you can’t possibly blow up a gas station with a mobile phone, can you?
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Same reason there’s a no smoking sign. There’s an incredibly unlikely, but potential for a fire. And fires and fuel stations don’t mix well.
Remember when Samsung phones exploded due to faulty batteries? That happening at a fuel station would be a bad time.
More commonly there’s a concern that a short in your phone could cause a charge build up in your body (like a static shock) that could ignite fuel when you grab the pump handle. Again, unlikely, and there’s already safety features to address that.
Cigarettes aren’t technically hot enough to ignite gasoline either. So it’s also a semi irrelevant warning.
But lets err on the side of caution.
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