My iPhone has been my best friend ever since I was able to afford my first one in high school. I name each Apple product I own and take care of it like it's an actual person. In the last year, I've owned three different iPhones and each one has been as defective as the last.
My iPhone 4s was the best phone I ever owned - at first. It had so many capabilities and made my life easier with faster wireless connection and better filters for Instagram. However, it began to shut off on its own and the connection became nonexistent. I ended up having to wait to get home to check my emails and Facebook notifications. I had had enough, and since my Sprint contract was up I felt that I was free to upgrade. I ended up getting the iPhone 5c next because I had heard about its sleek new design and awesome new features for photos and music. My 5c was just as slow as my 4s, and that was just in the first month of owning the phone. This was when the iPhone 6 was about to premiere so I figured that Apple was purposely crashing the 5c phones in order to sell more of the iPhone 6. I ended up upgrading to the iPhone 6 just two months after purchasing my 5c.
Now, on to the problem of today. I own a iPhone 6, like many others do now, and I have had great luck with it since I got it in March. However, on my last day of staffing for Anime Expo this past Sunday, my iPhone displayed the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This is something mainly seen with Microsoft items, but recently Apple has seen crashes like these in iPhone 6 Plus, and then it seemed to spread to the iPhone 6. My iPhone flashed blue, turned off, turned back on and then the screen looked as if I had dropped it - looking half green and half blue. Shortly after that my screen flashed the Red Screen of Death and began a cycle of crashing, dying, restarting, pretending to work for two minutes, and dying again. I looked online on my coworkers phone to see what I could do and the only thing I could find was that there were hundreds of people with the same problem and Apple was just replacing the phones or restoring them multiple times and giving back the same phone.
When I went to the Apple Store on Monday I was given great service and a minimal wait time because there was a last minute appointment drop and i was able to take it. The women that helped me were great Apple Associates and I was promised a new phone within the hour. Only problem? The new phone they wanted to give me didn't even work at first. It displayed the same blue screen as my previous phone and the associate that was helping me just said, "Oh, it must be the computer, I'll get another one." She ended up 'fixing' the phone, but once I got home it started to go crazy. I thought I fixed it myself after an hour of rebooting, but all day Tuesday it did exactly what my last phone did. So here I am now, after sitting in the Apple Store for the past two hours, on their own computer, typing this article.
I asked my Apple Associate helping me today if she saw a lot of this problem and all she said was, "It's something we can fix." She seemed not so surprised by my problem and so I can only guess how may other iPhone users have come in with this issue. My advice? Maybe run away from iPhone before it's too late. All my electronics are Apple products so I am in pretty deep, but it might not be too late for you! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
