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    My dumb day with my broken phone.

    Go to Genius Bar appt a t 12:45pm. They confirm the phone won’t power up. They can replace the power part in my phone by 3:50pm. So I leave.

    Back at 3:50, they tell me that the new part didn’t work. So they will instead give me a new phone. But they don’t have any 256gb silver ones in stock. I ask if they can offer another color because the color makes no difference to me. They can’t. So they find one at a store 30 minutes away. So I go there.

    They give me the new one, and set up the phone number transfer. But it doesn’t work because I either have, or don’t have enhanced security with AT&T. So I have to go to an actual AT&T store, which means he’s got to print out directions real old school like so I can get there.

    And here I sit at 6pm, in an AT&T store updating the new phone OS so that I can start transferring stuff from the iCloud backup.

    So stupid.

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    • sounds shittyYakuZoku
    • You can do the download and updates at home.monospaced
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      wtf!      PhanLo
    • mono - I did. Pleasantly surprised that iCloud backups do exactly what physical backups do. I was worried, but phone is right back to how I needed it.mg33
    • Learning moment: making people mad at you isn’t how to get things. Teaching children to negotiate helps them realize the mental spaces on both sides.cannonball1978
    • I’ve used iCloud to transfer backups for years.monospaced
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