I hate her.
Long Sigh….
Really long sigh….Snore, Snore where you hurt your own throat and wake yourself awake, wipe drool off my mouth and breathe. It’s 10:00 am. I can’t be doing this. I think I have things to do?
It’s stupid really. My Iphone6+ decided after a month of the IOS 10 update, it didn’t want to play nice. Like my phone calendar and she got together and said…
“Oh Shirt, it’s almost TIME to start celebrating our own Halloween pranks and shenanigans.”
Anything that could be signed out, did.
Anything that required a password entry, did. Repeatedly.
And during my daughter’s hair cut, every game app that has a ding, chirp, boom sound to it, went nutso for like 30 seconds. I had her on silent?! (Eyes wide open, insert twilight zone music).
Fork my life. (Remember, I’m obsessed with The Good Place).
Shutting her off numerous times in numerous ways did nothing for me.
Finally, desperate, I contacted the friendly Apple online people for what I thought would be a quickie.
Guess what I didn’t do?
Because I didn’t do things you should do. Like back things up. Sync your phone daily just so everything is safe in the Cloud. I don’t know how the dang Cloud works…so I didn’t use it. It’s the weird entity that I don’t understand.
So let me back up and explain how I got to the above realization of frustration.
Dinner has happened. My child and husband have left me and gone off to bed. Those lucky jerks. The last thing I told my husband was…”I’m going to contact Apple right now. I should be up soon”.
What a crockery of lies.
As my phone was off her rockers and did not care what I needed it to do, I went on and contacted Apple through their online support.
I whined in words that I needed major support and that damn that IOS 10 update. We went back and forth and did things they thought would work to reset me right. But no. My phone was like a wild animal backed into a corner and she wasn’t going back to her normal life if she could help it.
So then my tech support person types. “You’ve backed up your phone right?”
I answered. “Um lemme check to see exactly how long it’s been”. {checks phone but that takes a bit, because you know she’s not being compliant”}.
I answer again. “Oh, well, it says it’s been a dumb ass long amount of weeks since your last backup, you moron” {[email protected] me, I think to myself}
Tech Support probably clicks over to his group of INTERNET friends in another chat room and says he can’t play Call of Duty because an idiot has him working overtime.
“No problem, Selena, let’s start that process now. It may take a bit because it’s been a little long”
How long can one woman endure trying to fix her #Iphone? Many, Many, Many hours. Click To Tweet
How long is long?
Long story short…I started this process at 9:00pm…after one disconnect and a freaked out me because so much had been done that I thought for sure the 1.5 hours was a flop, and 3 different techs trying to get me all solved up.
A total of 4 hours long, all because I hadn’t backed up my phone since it’s birth apparently. It needed a complete restore and then an update for my Itunes on my computer, to make things right. I’m sure I broke the internet in my world that night because so much needed to happen that I wasn’t taking care of.
4 hours to get my pretty little iPhone back from the land of drugs she was on. Because she was NOT who she normally is.
The Tech Support team (yes, because I was too much for just one) kept shooting me words of encouragement.
“Don’t you worry, Selena, it’s going to work and you’ll be good as new”.
I joked I should be offering them a virtual beer but they all remained virtually professional and avoided my need to feed/beverage them up to make myself feel better.
They were right…after 4 hours I was done. There was a point I was in too deep to stop which is why this ridiculous amount of time I spent to fix this problem happened.
End Results
Have I learned anything since this happened a couple of months ago? No. {Well, that I constantly disappoint my iPhone and her need to be maintained}
Have I backed up my phone since then? No
Have Updates been done with Itunes? I haven’t checked.
This is why I get into the trouble I do. Sigh.
I know, it’s sad, I call my phone with a feminine pronoun but she is the holder of me trying to stay organized, a way to call for Pizza, a reminder to give the dog her heartworm pill. Doctor & Dentist appointments. Grocery lists. Way too much reliance on her.
Way.Too.Much.
And this is how I spent one evening trying to bring my iPhone back to life!
Do you have a HORROR story of your phone causing you havoc?
Aloha, I’m Selena, The Rambler of My Rambling Thoughts. A storyteller, wife & mother just trying to make it to the next day by hunting for the funny to stay sane! I inhale coffee to keep my brain functioning. I occasionally binge on Netflix. I beg my dog to just leave the toilet paper alone for one second when I’m using the potty, and I pray to all that is holy I can get through a homework session without breaking Google for whatever is making my child smarter for her future. And I humorously navigate my new life as a military spouse without embarrassing my husband wherever the Army sends us. Did I forget anything?
My first smartphone, many years ago. I learned that first moment when chaos was unleashed that you will regret not doing a daily backup. The beauty of the iMac/iPhone combo is that my phone does a back up to my computer 3 times a day and I never have to worry about losing my stuff.
Now my iPhone just attempts to start the robot revolution about 3 times a week, I’m sure you remember my post about that nightmare! #bigpinklink
No, no, no!! Four hours. Way to part up a night my friend 🙂 Technology rips and it consistently sucks so much of my time. In more ways than one…. All of the time in so many ways, and it would appear I am not alone, right? Well glad she is limping along now.
Aw, man I have been there. But hour iPhone story had to do with being away at Disney (the happiest and most magical place on Earth) and dropping it in water. $500 later, a taxi ride too and from the local mall there, i had a new iPhone and was back up and running. I have since bought the protection plan and also made sure to have my iCloud storage synched. Fingers crossed I never go through that again!!
AHHHH! You’re scaring me! I have not backed up or looked at those IT “stuff” yet. Rushing off now. Thanks for linking with #bigpinklink
I feel you pain. Smart phones aren’t all that smart at times #dreamteam
Shhhhhh, say that realllll quiet. They might hear and rebel even more. =)
Erm. I have no idea how to back up my phone? I have a new phone coming very soon. First thing I’m going to learn to do is to back it the “fork” up! 😉 I just don’t have the mental strength to spend 4 hours of my life fixing it if it goes wrong. It would break me I tell you – break me! *deep breaths* Thanks for sharing with us lovely. I’m so pleased that you got her back to her old self! xx #DreamTeam
Haha. I hate backing up my Iphone….I don’t know why.
Okay, you just scared the &*%! out of me! I checked my icloud and somehow I have the thing set to back up on its own. I take no credit here. It is all luck, or moments that have been cleared in my brain to make more room… either way, we are all foolishly dependent on these little trolls, and any bump in the road slays us! Thanks for this post! Looks like you helped a lot of us already check to see that we won’t experience your 4 hour trip to H*ll! <3 #blogcrush
Ahh nightmare!! I’m so glad I don’t have an iPhone, this whole ‘back up or face the consequences’ thing sounds like a right pain. I’m glad you got it fixed in the end, shame it took so long!Thanks for linking to #BlogCrush xx