Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Way Off Topic iPhone Question

Great suggestions from Jo and Mark.  Thank you.  My phone behaved
perfect for a full day after I posted on the L.  You guys probably
scared it.  This morning at the gym it went nuts again.  Jo's suggestion
sounds reasonable and promising.  I thought about doing it but then I
remembered the last time I tried something similar and wound up spending
over an hour on my landline phone with a very wonderful Apple support
person who needed to use both my laptop and my wife's iPhone to perform
various functions to get my iPhone back.  So, I think I'll just wimp out
and buy a new phone.

Here's another iPhone oddity for your amusement.  I usually use the
Apple music app in its "shuffle" mode at the gym.  It's set to just
access music I have stored on my phone, which includes some iTunes and
other downloads and a bunch of vinyl and CDs that I've transferred.  For
the last few weeks,  ever since the blow up over the country music
singer who released a possibly racist video about his comparison between
mythical small town life and big city life...  Anyway, every morning
since that hit the news my phone as played Guy Clark's "LA Freeway"
every single morning.  I like Guy Clark and I don't particularly mind
hearing that song every day but it has me wondering if Apple is using my
music library to make a statement.

Thanks again for the help with my OT phone problem and for those in the
northern hemisphere, I hope you're avoiding the heat wave. --J.B.

> Hi J.,
>
> I'd suggest to perform a full backup and then reset the phone to
> factory defaults (wipe it completely) and reinstall the current latest
> available iOS. Then reload the phone with your backup.
>
> just my 2¢
>
>
> Best
>
> Jo


Mark Spano wrote:
> The mail thing might be related to iOS' feature for Undo Send. When
> you send an email in the Mail app, it goes into a bit of purgatory and
> the bottom portion of the screen changes to a temporary "Undo Send"
> for a few seconds. So it's just delaying sending your message until
> the Undo period is over, and then it goes. Threw me a bit when that
> started.
>
> For the rest: it may just be time for a new phone. The SE was good,
> but the current architecture is better. I missed the home button for a
> few days, but the bottom-up swipe to get back to the home screen is
> intuitive and easy to switch to. It helps that so many of the iPhone
> swipe gestures are easy to remember and acquire into sense-memory.
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 12:24 PM JBeck <jb30343@windstream.net
> <mailto:jb30343@windstream.net>> wrote:
>
> I know this is way off topic but there are a lot of really smart users
> of Apple products on the L so I'm hoping to get some advice. My 2 year
> old iPhone SE is starting to act very goofy.  Aside from the battery
> life starting to diminish, it's developed three annoying problems.
> Other than these, I pretty much like the phone.
>
> 1) It randomly destroys outgoing emails.  I will tap out and send an
> email (reply or new), hit send and think it has been sent. The mail
> simply disappears.  It is not in the "sent" or any other folder, just
> gone.  I can verify that a message has been sent by looking for it in
> the "sent" folder but this problem has resulted in a few embarrassing
> situations.
>
> 2) The music player will randomly stop, then restart. Sometimes it
> will
> go back to the beginning of the tune it was playing, sometimes it will
> pick up where it left off, sometimes it will pick up somewhere else in
> whatever was playing, sometimes it goes to something entirely
> different.
>
> 3) When I unlock the phone, random apps will be open. Sometimes the
> open apps are ones that I haven't used for months.
>
> I've tried updating and refreshing apps and rebooting the entire
> phone.
> I'm not opposed to buying a new phone.  The main reason I went
> with the
> SE is that I like having an actual "Home" button. OTOH, I wouldn't
> mind
> having a slightly larger screen.  Any advice? Will I get used to not
> having a "home" button if I go to a different phone?  Is there any way
> to create some sort of a software home button on a newer iPhone? 
> Is it
> worth trying to fix the problems with my current phone??? Many
> Thanks.
> --J.B.
>
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