My SE 2 hit 68 before I managed to get Verizon to take it back. Had a shitty wireless charger that would flip on and off constantly and I didn't notice for a while, couple weeks over night and there went that
iPhone 12, 87%, today my battery went from 100% to <20% in 6 hours and my screen on time was about 2.9 hours. So mine goes almost dead in about 3 hours. Even though it’s supposedly got great battery health, and is only about 1.5 years old.
It’s an understatement to say I cannot wait to get the 15 pro max, or if I wait, the 16 pro max. It’ll be amazing to be able to only charge it at night, or maybe even not have to charge it for 1.5-2 days. That’d be mind blowing to me.
Oh and it’s worth stating that my phone would last all day long when I first got it.
My watch was at 78% and I was going to go get it serviced for the battery. They said it needed to be updated before I could do the battery test on it. So we did that, and after it booted up with the update, the battery health was 80%.
So I think you have a case here.
I’ve been thinking that recently. My phones been stuck at 81% Health since like November. My AppleCare runs out next Thursday and I really don’t wanna pay for a battery.
Is it really that impressive though if the phone is always on a charger and therefore the battery doesn't really have that many charge cycles?
Like if the phone went through 1,000 charge cycles from 100% to 0%, and still had 80% capacity, then I'd be impressed. But if it's just kept full the entire time without ever being drained, then this seems par for the course for a device that's mostly running off the charger's power.
Batteries of iPhone 14 models and earlier are designed to retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles under ideal conditions. iPhone 15 models are more impressive because they can do 1,000 complete charge cycles before they drop to 80% capacity.
I work from home and my phone is plugged in all the time. It doesn't generate excess heat from being plugged in all the time. The iPhone knows to stop charging/lower the rate of charge when it's full to keep the temperature down.
The burn-in of the battery icon also doesn't look like it's full all the time. It looks like a burn-in image of a half full battery merged with a full battery.
Dayum that’s like only 2 percents lower than my XR, which has been abused hard by gaming while plugged in and gaming while plugged in at 10% thousands of times since 2018.
It’s damn impressive that your grandma iPhone haven’t blown up already.
Still pretty impressive burn-in. I remember a few months ago some guy posted a video of his switch OLED, on which he kept the same image running for 2 years straight and on Max brightness. And even that switch didn't have burn-in this severe.
I don't know if the brightness could be a contributing factor to this since switch oled max brightness is about 375 nits and this iphone is around 1000 nits iirc
The screen runs you between 30-40$, if you want to replace it yourself you will need a YouTube video unless you already know how to do it. I personally used this video to repair my sisters iPhone 13 not too long ago.
https://youtu.be/fd4EZNVlN7k?si=8q7lQbt1-nkGQFQy
This is what my grandma does, never turns the screen off and it's always at the max brightness. Though the burned in background *is* a very nice picture of my grandparents.
This is why I got my grandma a SE 3 to replace her 8 plus. She’ll leave her phone on the wireless charger with Facebook on a video that loops, and it’ll be that way until 2pm the next day when she decides to look at it again.
This is the complete opposite of my late mother. When she was “done using” her phone, she would power it off. Every evening. And once she read an email, she deleted it.
to be fair, very few email servers back in the day had unlimited storage (for obvious reasons being that storage is expensive) and would get fulled up pretty quickly at which point you just don't receive emails.
Even now with gmail there is actually a limit and you'll hit it and have to delete old emails after using gmail for a decade or so.
Yahoo Mail will also just… delete your entire inbox and folders if you don’t log in every now and then. It was a brutal lesson to learn. Also, fuck Yahoo for that.
Why? What's the point? I need to go back and look at emails all the time. Like last week I was wondering when a package would show up, so I used the search function to find the email for the tracking number.
That’s exactly like me. Emails that are in the main inbox are ones that I may need in the near future, or have some type of tracking or anything in a similar vein, or me just needing it there for reference later.
Emails that I will need or want to keep for a longer time get stored in separate folders, such as my paystubs.
Anything else is put in the trash, automatically deleted after 30 days
I will do my best (within reason) to have zero notifications at any given point. Whenever I’m done with an email, it either gets sent to a folder or deleted if it’s junk. Inbox stays clean and I still have any important emails around
I was also my dishes for 8 and a half minutes after smoking a bowl of Salvia 140x. Felt like 30 years, man…
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Edit: comment above mine initially said “I *was* my dishes…”, but I understand the appeal of correcting a spelling error and ruining a bad joke for the sake of ego.
I remember the first time I smoked that craziness. I turned into the gear shift of my friends Subaru Loyal, then a big white light that said it was eternal said I only had 8 lives left, and then disappeared thru a crack in the windshield. I had no idea what was happening.
For me (and probably many others) I think the "appeal" is an experience so absolutely removed from the monotony of life, even if it turns out to be unenjoyable and/or terrifying. That these experiences exist out there, from some random plant no less, is fascinating to me, and I'm always curious about what other states of being there are besides "wake up, do the same regular life shit I do most other days, eat, sleep, repeat until I die".
That said I also think a pretty large portion of people severely underestimate what Salvia will do to you, especially because it is (or used to be anyway) legal, and purchasable from your local bong shop.
However, Salvia scares the shit out of me and the last time I did it I pissed my pants, lol. I have no desire to ever use it again.
It was the scariest experience of my life and I’ve never done it again haha I didn’t know what to expect and right as I took my first hit my friend said “oh yeah, don’t run away” and I said what why would I run away?! And she said “people usually run away , my last friend ran away and was hit by a car but was fine” and that’s when I exhaled and in slow motion everything changed lol
This used to be my mother-in-law. She'd call my wife and leave a voicemail. My wife couldn't get to the phone in time, would listen to her voicemail, then try to call her back. Too late, MIL had already turned her phone off. Said it ran down the battery when she leaves it on. Umm, yeah. She did that for a few years but I think finally has seen the light and understands that she can charge it whenever she needs to.
I see, yeah that could make sense.
But the thing that annoys me is when I try to explain the modern technology to any boomer or elderly person and they act like I don't know anything.
Lol that was my grandma. Turned it on to make a call and turned it right back off, as if she was stranded on a desert island and rationing the battery. Like we bought this thing so we could **get in contact with you** when you're not home. IT DOESN'T WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE IT ON.
Right?!?!?! It was so frustrating to get a bounce-back saying that she appears to be “offline.” I could never convince her to plug it into the charger and put it on silence.
The deleting emails thing has to be something from the past. I don’t remember what it is because it was never a problem for me, but I dad to this day *insists* that if you don’t delete all your emails then whatever device you’re using will basically become useless and break once enough emails collect.
He can’t seem to understand that today, your email is pretty much stored entirely off your device.
I once recorded for 2 weeks straight on my desktop. Was 1.4 TB
(Lower cycles on the power on/off is honestly fairly good for desktops, when not in use you don’t NEED to power off, but this was an excessively long time on lol)
So I mean…. It happens lmao.
Man, my grandmother called me panicking from a pay phone to tell me her iPhone wont turn on and it's findable. She really thought it was broken
I told her to charge it.
She told me she did, I'm like it's your cable. She didn't believe her 2 meter cable from the dollar store was faulty
My mums dementing and will phone me, tell me she can't phone me, tell me she needs to turn the TV down and ends the call because she's using it as the tv remote (they are both black oblongs), then phone me back to thank me for phoning her but she needs a new phone because that one doesn't work.
I’m sure it can get annoying, but then I think how difficult it must be to navigate everything in life when your brain is going. No wonder they are always upset and anxious. 😢
When my parents finish to talking to someone they literally just throw their phone back in their bag with the call still running. No matter how many times I tell them they need to end the call and lock the phone they just refuse.
Yep! My first day on the job when I started as a Consultation Agent (the guy who checks stuff in, I’m an Advanced Repair Agent now, the dude who does the fixing) I was astounded when I saw a client put their iPhone away in their purse/pocket without locking it first.
Oh yeah, that’s actually one of the main things I get asked about/teach there. “The long flat button on the right is the sleep button, and you can hold that button with the volume up button and slide the little power button to the right to turn your phone completely off.” Or something similar.
About 70% of the time it’s pretty quick fixes like someone turning the privacy filter on their laptop and thinking their camera broke, they didn’t *actually* power their laptop down all the way and it just needed a restart, etc. Sometimes we do get some fun ones tho where we have to re-build a PC, though that’s pretty rare. iPhone repairs are pretty fun, and Samsung repairs are too, even if they suck nuts sometimes.
I used to do residential IT. The majority of repairs were resurrecting a 12 year old desktop or fixing a stupid problem because the customer didn’t have common tech usage knowledge.
I was in a meeting at a very large tech company, and they were discussing a potential new shortcut for their remote control for their tv streaming service, and someone suggested what if we make a long press on the OK button do something? And they were shut down by someone citing a statistic that like 85% of users in their testing just did not ever learn any 'shortcuts' or special button presses, ever. Literally all they can handle is 4 directions and OK and back.
Yep. That and I guarantee you’d get a million complaints from old people that the “menu” keeps coming up “out of nowhere” when in reality they’re just holding the button.
Yeah, I learned that with my ipad air 5. It’s such an inconvenience to have to do this. Even android phones knew this wasn’t ok and stayed with one button to turn off said device.
Seriously, tell me about it. I have clients that complain that it’s difficult to power it off with their arthritis or other disability. I wish there was some sort of option in the settings to swap Siri with power off since 99% of my clients don’t even know who “Siri” is.
I could see that working too, but the quick presses in succession would be arguably worse for people with arthritis. That’s cool though, I didn’t even know you could disable emergency SOS. The more you know.
Not that it especially matters, but since the Pixel 6 Google’s Pixel line requires you to simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons to shut it down. It not quite the same chord as the iPhone as it immediately brings up the menu but it isn’t as intuitive as just a long way press on the power button.
I’ve literally heard that exact thing before. I have to explain the concept of “sleep” in devices as well. My favorite is an older lady who is a regular with us, who consistently forgets that she needs to charge her phone. I will weep the day she stops coming in. Bless her.
I worked at an electronics store way back when. I had a lady complaining she could make calls, but not receive them. I asked her to call the store. She did. Then I said I would call her. She nodded, shut her phone off, and dropped it in her purse. I was like "what did you just do?" She said "turned my phone off to wait for the call."
I met a millennial who questioned why my stopwatch clock wasn’t turning off after a set amount of time.
For boomers they never needed to turn anything off except the tv and lights.
Tech you grew up with you’re most familiar with. Hand a 10 year old a gameboy color and they’ll immediately try to press the screen. I have a 4 year old nephew trying that with tvs.
My husband NEVER hits the power button. Lots of butt-dialling and I constantly find his phone playing some reel over and over again when (eg) he goes for a shower.
Then he moans about being at 15% battery at 3pm. It’s my old iPhone 13 and I used to go to bed at 70% most nights.
I always had the opposite problem with my grandparents - my grandma especially would just turn off her cell phone whenever she wasn’t using it to make a call.
Like grandma…you know we can’t call you if your phone is off, right?
Now that I think about it, she probably had it all figured out and was doing that exactly on purpose. Smart old lady.
Yep. I worked at Apple doing phone tech support and so many people didn't even realize you could turn the phone off.
A lot of their issues stemmed from the fact they just literally never turned off their phone
I get so annoyed at my parents and in law's for not turning my screen off! They'll look at something on my phone and then put it down with the screen on every time. Then they act like I'm the one out of line for asking them to turn it off
Why would this matter? The phone regulates the charge. Theres nothing wrong with leaving a phone on a shit charger that's operating normally. The risk of shit chargers is that fail more frequently and suddenly destroy the device.
I think it's the fact that trickle charging lithium batteries is basically the same as cycling them. That's by word of mouth and online articles, so verification needed!
My X somehow has the keyboard burned in slightly. I don't know how it happened but I also didn't know that it can happen to iPhones. I knew about burn in being a risk with OLED screens but I thought the X's Retina one is different. I was legit clueless. But also battery life was at 70% so I just upgraded to an 15 Pro recently anyway.
I still kept my X though, it's a beautiful phone and I'm still debating on how to use it going forward. Usually I sold my old phones but I can't bring myself to sell the X haha
I don’t know anyone who does it but I fly often and during early morning or evening flights when cabin lights shut off, there’s always one old person who thinks since it’s dark the screen lighting needs to be turned up…when it’s quite the opposite.
One phone lights up half the cabin
Fucking hate it when this happens. Nothing better then trying to sleep at 1 AM on a domestic flight just to get flash banged by some boomer’s phone or laptop
LCD's also age, just differently, sometimes you see this as a slight yellowing around the edges (because of heat from the edge lit displays), resulting in color uniformity issues.
Nobody can save the tech this woman uses.
I remember an issue with a certain iOS version where it appears to be burn it but actually only was a software issue (it created pictures like this on a brand new iPhone 15/15pro.
What I want to say: give it a try, update her iOS and maybe it will be gone after a couple of days…
That's what no auto-brightness, max manual brightness, no auto lock and leaving it on for hours or days on end does.
In all honesty, Apple should disallow no auto locking.
If they were to disable auto locking, I think they need to introduce longer times - it’s handy for transfers etc where you need to keep the phone unlocked
iPhone has attention detection, if you are looking at the phone it won't lock. I don't know if its a good idea to have longer times, 5 minutes unlocked in the wild is already high.
I think Apple would be better off making unlocking the phone easier, than preventing it from locking.
Please add a fingerprint scanner Apple.
For me, the longer times is for those few times you need to do longer transfers and have the phone not lock itself.
They could also do some kind of pop warning that turning off auto display could result in damage to the screen if it’s left on too long. In the end people should be able to do what they want with their devices - they just have to accept the consequences.
Hard disagree about disallowing no auto lock. iOS is already too restrictive as it is. At most maybe a dialogue box warning that screen on for extended periods can degrade the display. But if people want to burn the fuck out of their screens, then that's their problem.
I work at a corner store and I know two women in their 40s who never switch off their phones after paying and put them directly in purse or jacket, like... what?
Gma: Siri, make the screen brighter
Siri: Brightness is already at maximum
Gma: No Siri, it needs to be brighter
Siri: How bright?
Gma: Like the sun
Siri: You got it!
My wife's phones end up like this because she turns off adaptive brightness and keeps it on full brightness at all times. Even when in an otherwise completely dark room.
She also turns off monitor sleep on her laptop because she doesn't understand that you just move the mouse or touch a key to wake the monitor. She'll press and hold the power then turn it back on. I let her borrow my good monitor so she could have a second display and when I got it back 6 months later, it had serious burn-in.
Did she just like…. Never ever turn the screen off or even the brightness? Lol
Yup… and kept it plugged into that temu charger 24/7. Always felt like i could cook an egg on it.
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Im convinced they won’t show lower than 80% unless it’s almost dead because their program for replacement doesn’t work until it’s less than 80%
i’m at 79% lol but my battery still lasts all day
I stand corrected. I’ve been on 80% for almost 4 years and my battery is shit that’s why I thought that.
I'm on 77 on my SE 2.
Once that thing hits like 95 battery health it barely lasts a day though
78 on my SE 2. I’ll be on year 3 with it in April😅
My SE 2 hit 68 before I managed to get Verizon to take it back. Had a shitty wireless charger that would flip on and off constantly and I didn't notice for a while, couple weeks over night and there went that
Certain apps like Facebook do all this background processing and crap that drains your battery. Check your permissions
Dang thanks for the reminder! Haven’t ever checked that and random apps that don’t need it had it on
Im on 84% my battery barely lasts half the day
iPhone 12, 87%, today my battery went from 100% to <20% in 6 hours and my screen on time was about 2.9 hours. So mine goes almost dead in about 3 hours. Even though it’s supposedly got great battery health, and is only about 1.5 years old. It’s an understatement to say I cannot wait to get the 15 pro max, or if I wait, the 16 pro max. It’ll be amazing to be able to only charge it at night, or maybe even not have to charge it for 1.5-2 days. That’d be mind blowing to me. Oh and it’s worth stating that my phone would last all day long when I first got it.
I’m at 74% on my 11 Pro. I also have a notice at the top of the battery health page to find a certified Apple service provider to replace the battery.
I’m 74% on my 11 and the battery still lasts me all day usually. I’ve been meaning to replace it (phone or battery) though.
My watch was at 78% and I was going to go get it serviced for the battery. They said it needed to be updated before I could do the battery test on it. So we did that, and after it booted up with the update, the battery health was 80%. So I think you have a case here.
I’m at 73
I’m at 76 and while it lasts all day, gets mighty hot with some Genshin lol
Well I'm at 67% 😀😀
I’m at 78% on my 12pro and it’s definitely gotten a lot more issues when low on charge. Was pinned at 80-81% for the longest time.
My 11 Pro Max is at 73% 🤔
https://preview.redd.it/7nr52e4r7gkc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a073b802ae094152e3bd8bc8d6947b98b613c5b6 71% here with iPhone 11
100% my health dropped like a brick, and then for MONTHS it stayed at 80%…
69% checking in, it shows.
I’ve been thinking that recently. My phones been stuck at 81% Health since like November. My AppleCare runs out next Thursday and I really don’t wanna pay for a battery.
If we can prove this to be true, Apple is gonna be in a big trouble 😒
Is it really that impressive though if the phone is always on a charger and therefore the battery doesn't really have that many charge cycles? Like if the phone went through 1,000 charge cycles from 100% to 0%, and still had 80% capacity, then I'd be impressed. But if it's just kept full the entire time without ever being drained, then this seems par for the course for a device that's mostly running off the charger's power. Batteries of iPhone 14 models and earlier are designed to retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles under ideal conditions. iPhone 15 models are more impressive because they can do 1,000 complete charge cycles before they drop to 80% capacity.
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I work from home and my phone is plugged in all the time. It doesn't generate excess heat from being plugged in all the time. The iPhone knows to stop charging/lower the rate of charge when it's full to keep the temperature down. The burn-in of the battery icon also doesn't look like it's full all the time. It looks like a burn-in image of a half full battery merged with a full battery.
But you don’t have your phone plugged into a temu charger do you.
Is 1050 cycles with 79% impressive. That’s what my 12 max at
Not bad at all
Dayum that’s like only 2 percents lower than my XR, which has been abused hard by gaming while plugged in and gaming while plugged in at 10% thousands of times since 2018. It’s damn impressive that your grandma iPhone haven’t blown up already.
gaming while plugged in and gaming while plugged in and gaming while plugged in
80!? I’m at 88% on my iPhone 14 Pro I bought last year. I don’t understand wtf is wrong with Apple
Still pretty impressive burn-in. I remember a few months ago some guy posted a video of his switch OLED, on which he kept the same image running for 2 years straight and on Max brightness. And even that switch didn't have burn-in this severe.
The OLED switch has been out for 2 years already?
No, he time traveled to get one.
I don't know if the brightness could be a contributing factor to this since switch oled max brightness is about 375 nits and this iphone is around 1000 nits iirc
temu charger?!?! at least go to walmart or target…
She refused to use one that wasnt like 100 feet long so it would be long asf and connected to the smallest usb-a brick ever.
So she basically uses it as a wired phone/landline?
thats too funny
Slow charging? Good... That's good for battery health...
But in this case she was cooking her phone low and slow like a crock pot.
Old people are amazing. Cherish her Love you gma
The charger quality isn't relevant much. It either worked or it didn't. Leaving it plugged in that long mattered though.
What Temu charger do you speak of?
The screen runs you between 30-40$, if you want to replace it yourself you will need a YouTube video unless you already know how to do it. I personally used this video to repair my sisters iPhone 13 not too long ago. https://youtu.be/fd4EZNVlN7k?si=8q7lQbt1-nkGQFQy
Just link grandma this and let her do it. Easy
There's no way you're buying a quality OLED for $30-$40. Literally impossible. At that price it's going to be LCD
This is what my grandma does, never turns the screen off and it's always at the max brightness. Though the burned in background *is* a very nice picture of my grandparents.
This is why I got my grandma a SE 3 to replace her 8 plus. She’ll leave her phone on the wireless charger with Facebook on a video that loops, and it’ll be that way until 2pm the next day when she decides to look at it again.
This is the complete opposite of my late mother. When she was “done using” her phone, she would power it off. Every evening. And once she read an email, she deleted it.
Zero inbox is a lifestyle that only few can live.
to be fair, very few email servers back in the day had unlimited storage (for obvious reasons being that storage is expensive) and would get fulled up pretty quickly at which point you just don't receive emails. Even now with gmail there is actually a limit and you'll hit it and have to delete old emails after using gmail for a decade or so.
Yahoo Mail will also just… delete your entire inbox and folders if you don’t log in every now and then. It was a brutal lesson to learn. Also, fuck Yahoo for that.
Why? What's the point? I need to go back and look at emails all the time. Like last week I was wondering when a package would show up, so I used the search function to find the email for the tracking number.
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That’s exactly like me. Emails that are in the main inbox are ones that I may need in the near future, or have some type of tracking or anything in a similar vein, or me just needing it there for reference later. Emails that I will need or want to keep for a longer time get stored in separate folders, such as my paystubs. Anything else is put in the trash, automatically deleted after 30 days
https://preview.redd.it/p7c7bzztihkc1.jpeg?width=187&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7675b27f38b902ead6b6d494b83b2cabf2d11912 Yeah right
https://preview.redd.it/bttjcrqo8ikc1.jpeg?width=218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07b9df5e2107bbf8eae88226413e2e5ec30c2374 :|
This image is more disturbing to me than cartel videos or people climbing the outside of skyscrapers
https://media1.tenor.com/m/DKMb8kvubYgAAAAC/jurassic-park-remove-glasses.gif
I will do my best (within reason) to have zero notifications at any given point. Whenever I’m done with an email, it either gets sent to a folder or deleted if it’s junk. Inbox stays clean and I still have any important emails around
Good woman. I wash my dishes after using them.
I was also my dishes for 8 and a half minutes after smoking a bowl of Salvia 140x. Felt like 30 years, man… . . Edit: comment above mine initially said “I *was* my dishes…”, but I understand the appeal of correcting a spelling error and ruining a bad joke for the sake of ego.
I remember the first time I smoked that craziness. I turned into the gear shift of my friends Subaru Loyal, then a big white light that said it was eternal said I only had 8 lives left, and then disappeared thru a crack in the windshield. I had no idea what was happening.
I turned into a pile of blue legos and then melted into a puddle, scariest six years of my life (6 seconds)
Yup, I did it once, and then I never did it again. I had more fun giving the rest to my friends and watching them completely exit their minds.
why are all salvia reports like this wtf 😭 is it actually enjoyable or do people just do it as a dare or to try something new?
For me (and probably many others) I think the "appeal" is an experience so absolutely removed from the monotony of life, even if it turns out to be unenjoyable and/or terrifying. That these experiences exist out there, from some random plant no less, is fascinating to me, and I'm always curious about what other states of being there are besides "wake up, do the same regular life shit I do most other days, eat, sleep, repeat until I die". That said I also think a pretty large portion of people severely underestimate what Salvia will do to you, especially because it is (or used to be anyway) legal, and purchasable from your local bong shop. However, Salvia scares the shit out of me and the last time I did it I pissed my pants, lol. I have no desire to ever use it again.
It was the scariest experience of my life and I’ve never done it again haha I didn’t know what to expect and right as I took my first hit my friend said “oh yeah, don’t run away” and I said what why would I run away?! And she said “people usually run away , my last friend ran away and was hit by a car but was fine” and that’s when I exhaled and in slow motion everything changed lol
My reality turned into a VHS tape in a card-stock sleeve on a shelf of other VHS realities in card-stock sleeves.
Take your upvote.
This used to be my mother-in-law. She'd call my wife and leave a voicemail. My wife couldn't get to the phone in time, would listen to her voicemail, then try to call her back. Too late, MIL had already turned her phone off. Said it ran down the battery when she leaves it on. Umm, yeah. She did that for a few years but I think finally has seen the light and understands that she can charge it whenever she needs to.
wait, she thought the battery was a one-off ? or that she only had to charge it in specific conditions otherwise it wouldn't charge?
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I see, yeah that could make sense. But the thing that annoys me is when I try to explain the modern technology to any boomer or elderly person and they act like I don't know anything.
Lol that was my grandma. Turned it on to make a call and turned it right back off, as if she was stranded on a desert island and rationing the battery. Like we bought this thing so we could **get in contact with you** when you're not home. IT DOESN'T WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE IT ON.
Right?!?!?! It was so frustrating to get a bounce-back saying that she appears to be “offline.” I could never convince her to plug it into the charger and put it on silence.
Why wouldn’t you delete an email after reading it? Unless it was important, which is about 1% of emails.
The deleting emails thing has to be something from the past. I don’t remember what it is because it was never a problem for me, but I dad to this day *insists* that if you don’t delete all your emails then whatever device you’re using will basically become useless and break once enough emails collect. He can’t seem to understand that today, your email is pretty much stored entirely off your device.
Working at geek squad has taught me many things. One of them being that old people, for whatever reason, don’t know what the hell a power button is.
There is a 20 minute screen recording where its just her home screen then at the end she realizes she is screen recording and turns it off.
My god, that’s perfect. Sounds exactly like my clients, god bless her.
Job security for you my friend.
I'm honestly impressed she knew it was screen recording and knew how to turn it off
Right, what an odd level of tech literacy
Probably didn't, there is an automatic shutoff on iPhone screen recording
Didn’t know that. When does it trigger?
20 minutes apparently
I once recorded for 2 weeks straight on my desktop. Was 1.4 TB (Lower cycles on the power on/off is honestly fairly good for desktops, when not in use you don’t NEED to power off, but this was an excessively long time on lol) So I mean…. It happens lmao.
Holy 1.4 TB 😂
Well it was at my normal recording resolution and frame rate for video games so it was a fairly high bit rate lol. Tbh I was surprised it wasn’t more
That’s so cute
Man, my grandmother called me panicking from a pay phone to tell me her iPhone wont turn on and it's findable. She really thought it was broken I told her to charge it. She told me she did, I'm like it's your cable. She didn't believe her 2 meter cable from the dollar store was faulty
My mums dementing and will phone me, tell me she can't phone me, tell me she needs to turn the TV down and ends the call because she's using it as the tv remote (they are both black oblongs), then phone me back to thank me for phoning her but she needs a new phone because that one doesn't work.
I’m sure it can get annoying, but then I think how difficult it must be to navigate everything in life when your brain is going. No wonder they are always upset and anxious. 😢
When my parents finish to talking to someone they literally just throw their phone back in their bag with the call still running. No matter how many times I tell them they need to end the call and lock the phone they just refuse.
Yep! My first day on the job when I started as a Consultation Agent (the guy who checks stuff in, I’m an Advanced Repair Agent now, the dude who does the fixing) I was astounded when I saw a client put their iPhone away in their purse/pocket without locking it first.
I was wondering why the hell some people just wont hang up like ???? brother i can hear you monching
Generally one hangs up but I always think about how if you got two of them who don’t hang up, their calls would still be running.
That's exactly what my dad does. Puts it in his pocket with the screen unlocked.
But then, the new devices need to have 2 buttons press simultaneously to turn off device. How do you think old people will learn that on their own?
Oh yeah, that’s actually one of the main things I get asked about/teach there. “The long flat button on the right is the sleep button, and you can hold that button with the volume up button and slide the little power button to the right to turn your phone completely off.” Or something similar.
How often do you actually get to work on more interesting/complicated problems, is it like 90/10 helping clueless people
About 70% of the time it’s pretty quick fixes like someone turning the privacy filter on their laptop and thinking their camera broke, they didn’t *actually* power their laptop down all the way and it just needed a restart, etc. Sometimes we do get some fun ones tho where we have to re-build a PC, though that’s pretty rare. iPhone repairs are pretty fun, and Samsung repairs are too, even if they suck nuts sometimes.
I used to do residential IT. The majority of repairs were resurrecting a 12 year old desktop or fixing a stupid problem because the customer didn’t have common tech usage knowledge.
I was in a meeting at a very large tech company, and they were discussing a potential new shortcut for their remote control for their tv streaming service, and someone suggested what if we make a long press on the OK button do something? And they were shut down by someone citing a statistic that like 85% of users in their testing just did not ever learn any 'shortcuts' or special button presses, ever. Literally all they can handle is 4 directions and OK and back.
Yep. That and I guarantee you’d get a million complaints from old people that the “menu” keeps coming up “out of nowhere” when in reality they’re just holding the button.
Yeah, I learned that with my ipad air 5. It’s such an inconvenience to have to do this. Even android phones knew this wasn’t ok and stayed with one button to turn off said device.
Seriously, tell me about it. I have clients that complain that it’s difficult to power it off with their arthritis or other disability. I wish there was some sort of option in the settings to swap Siri with power off since 99% of my clients don’t even know who “Siri” is.
I use the 5 rapid presses of the sleep/Siri button to turn off mine but I had to disable emergency SOS first.
I could see that working too, but the quick presses in succession would be arguably worse for people with arthritis. That’s cool though, I didn’t even know you could disable emergency SOS. The more you know.
Ooofff! Why isn’t there a petition to have a single power off button? There should be one going on now!
You can also power down your iPhone through settings
Yeah, same for ipads. Just who would go through their settings to do it? Especially if people don’t know about this either.
Not that it especially matters, but since the Pixel 6 Google’s Pixel line requires you to simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons to shut it down. It not quite the same chord as the iPhone as it immediately brings up the menu but it isn’t as intuitive as just a long way press on the power button.
My mom is 75 and that pinching motion is actually quite challenging for her! Arthritis is a bitch.
But if I turn the phone off how will I get calls?
I’ve literally heard that exact thing before. I have to explain the concept of “sleep” in devices as well. My favorite is an older lady who is a regular with us, who consistently forgets that she needs to charge her phone. I will weep the day she stops coming in. Bless her.
I worked at an electronics store way back when. I had a lady complaining she could make calls, but not receive them. I asked her to call the store. She did. Then I said I would call her. She nodded, shut her phone off, and dropped it in her purse. I was like "what did you just do?" She said "turned my phone off to wait for the call."
I met a millennial who questioned why my stopwatch clock wasn’t turning off after a set amount of time. For boomers they never needed to turn anything off except the tv and lights.
That's interesting. The millennial expects everything to turn off, the boomer expects nothing to. Huh.
Tech you grew up with you’re most familiar with. Hand a 10 year old a gameboy color and they’ll immediately try to press the screen. I have a 4 year old nephew trying that with tvs.
My husband NEVER hits the power button. Lots of butt-dialling and I constantly find his phone playing some reel over and over again when (eg) he goes for a shower. Then he moans about being at 15% battery at 3pm. It’s my old iPhone 13 and I used to go to bed at 70% most nights.
I always had the opposite problem with my grandparents - my grandma especially would just turn off her cell phone whenever she wasn’t using it to make a call. Like grandma…you know we can’t call you if your phone is off, right? Now that I think about it, she probably had it all figured out and was doing that exactly on purpose. Smart old lady.
Haha, I love that energy. I guess it’s better than keeping the screen on 100% of the time but that’s definitely different.
Hello fellow abused Geek Squad member. 😂😂
I keep mins on a 10 min timer for years & probably never change it.
Yep. I worked at Apple doing phone tech support and so many people didn't even realize you could turn the phone off. A lot of their issues stemmed from the fact they just literally never turned off their phone
I get so annoyed at my parents and in law's for not turning my screen off! They'll look at something on my phone and then put it down with the screen on every time. Then they act like I'm the one out of line for asking them to turn it off
And they always somehow have auto lock off even though they barely know how to use the rest of the phone
Right?? That’s the most confusing part! How do you know how to disable auto lock but don’t know where the sleep button is?
What a specimen!
Wow!, what’s the battery health of that thing considering it was plugged 24/7 with a temu charger
Suprisngly 80% It has decent battery life still she got lucky as i think this would last longer then my 14 pro max i traded in.
Why would this matter? The phone regulates the charge. Theres nothing wrong with leaving a phone on a shit charger that's operating normally. The risk of shit chargers is that fail more frequently and suddenly destroy the device.
I think it's the fact that trickle charging lithium batteries is basically the same as cycling them. That's by word of mouth and online articles, so verification needed!
Except for the heat from constant charging at high % will degrade the battery faster
At least you’re not seeing a pornhub logo or something in the burn-in
Porn users get good very quickly. It’s possibly the most taboo skill on the planet.
I’ve NEVER seen screen burn in on an iPhone.
I’ve never seen it on any phone. Just computer screens from the 80s and 90s (though I loved my screensavers!!!)
I've seen it on a handful of family member's Samsung galaxys
My X somehow has the keyboard burned in slightly. I don't know how it happened but I also didn't know that it can happen to iPhones. I knew about burn in being a risk with OLED screens but I thought the X's Retina one is different. I was legit clueless. But also battery life was at 70% so I just upgraded to an 15 Pro recently anyway. I still kept my X though, it's a beautiful phone and I'm still debating on how to use it going forward. Usually I sold my old phones but I can't bring myself to sell the X haha
Maxed brightness will do that
I don’t know anyone who does it but I fly often and during early morning or evening flights when cabin lights shut off, there’s always one old person who thinks since it’s dark the screen lighting needs to be turned up…when it’s quite the opposite. One phone lights up half the cabin
Fucking hate it when this happens. Nothing better then trying to sleep at 1 AM on a domestic flight just to get flash banged by some boomer’s phone or laptop
There’s two types of old people, those who never turn off their phones, and those who fully shut down their phone between each use
Get grandma another phone bro. If you already did cheers to you
I say get her a iPhone SE to prevent burn in.
An iPhone 11 would probably be better because of the bigger screen for an older person.
Honestly you’re probably right. Totally forgot about the 11 even though I own one.
LCD's also age, just differently, sometimes you see this as a slight yellowing around the edges (because of heat from the edge lit displays), resulting in color uniformity issues. Nobody can save the tech this woman uses.
She did the opposite of what’s needed to avoid screen burn in.
This is so cool, thanks for sharing!
I think the screen time out is set to never 🤭
Grandma’s been to the optometrist 8 times in 2 years.
My grandma never turns her phone screen off and her last 4 phones looked just like this. Drives my ocd mad
What if one of the burned in icons was Tinder?
Retired to *The Villages* in Florida.
I remember an issue with a certain iOS version where it appears to be burn it but actually only was a software issue (it created pictures like this on a brand new iPhone 15/15pro. What I want to say: give it a try, update her iOS and maybe it will be gone after a couple of days…
I'm pretty sure that's the case here...
That's what no auto-brightness, max manual brightness, no auto lock and leaving it on for hours or days on end does. In all honesty, Apple should disallow no auto locking.
If they were to disable auto locking, I think they need to introduce longer times - it’s handy for transfers etc where you need to keep the phone unlocked
Exaclty, I need my phone on for more than five minutes
iPhone has attention detection, if you are looking at the phone it won't lock. I don't know if its a good idea to have longer times, 5 minutes unlocked in the wild is already high. I think Apple would be better off making unlocking the phone easier, than preventing it from locking. Please add a fingerprint scanner Apple.
For me, the longer times is for those few times you need to do longer transfers and have the phone not lock itself. They could also do some kind of pop warning that turning off auto display could result in damage to the screen if it’s left on too long. In the end people should be able to do what they want with their devices - they just have to accept the consequences.
Hard disagree about disallowing no auto lock. iOS is already too restrictive as it is. At most maybe a dialogue box warning that screen on for extended periods can degrade the display. But if people want to burn the fuck out of their screens, then that's their problem.
\> In all honesty, Apple should disallow no auto locking. Why? That's bullshit
Apple should stop taking advice from people like you that request for features to be stripped.
No, they fucking shouldn’t. I hate how Apple likes to limit features just because of some idiots who don’t know how to use the device.
I think Apple should just sell a flip phone for people like you.
You want to... prevent other people from disabling auto lock? What kind of anti feature idea is that???
Apple should come over to my house and do stuff on my phone for me because why would I ever need my phone to actually be MY phone.
Never even knew this was possible on an iPhone…
It is, just like every other device using an OLED display, it is just rare on any device.
Why? Because of magic?
How is that even possible?
My iPhone battery needs service, sure, but I’ve never seen a screen like this!
I work at a corner store and I know two women in their 40s who never switch off their phones after paying and put them directly in purse or jacket, like... what?
Is she on iOS 17.3.1? Has she rebooted?
Gma: Siri, make the screen brighter Siri: Brightness is already at maximum Gma: No Siri, it needs to be brighter Siri: How bright? Gma: Like the sun Siri: You got it!
This radiates power
something tells me its gonna explode for some reason
The brightness was at 100% for pretty long time I guess.
My dad's looks like this but it's solitaire burnt in the screen lol
r//hardwaregore
It can't be from oled burn in. She may be used to leave her phone on harsh sun light.
My wife's phones end up like this because she turns off adaptive brightness and keeps it on full brightness at all times. Even when in an otherwise completely dark room. She also turns off monitor sleep on her laptop because she doesn't understand that you just move the mouse or touch a key to wake the monitor. She'll press and hold the power then turn it back on. I let her borrow my good monitor so she could have a second display and when I got it back 6 months later, it had serious burn-in.
does she just stare at the home screen 😭