I am grateful, truly, BUT me and gadgets don't always get along. Since my daddy - who is also not super tech savvy - has been managing to operate his iPhone, I figured I had a shot.
Hmm. Silly me.
Here are four (and probably only the first of many) iPhone fails that I have had:
1. "Mass" Text Mix-up
This first fail happened literally within minutes of me activating my phone. I sent a message as soon as I got into my car after leaving the store.
First, I have a confession to make: I send mass text messages. Yes. Judge all you want.
I know some people think it is poor etiquette to send the same message to multiple people but I simply found it incredibly convenient when setting up when to meet for dinner, who I need to drive to church, sharing updates about boys or redneck weddings, etc. etc.
Well apparently, some of those people who are anti mass-text-messages work for apple and they have imposed their own moral messaging code on iPhone 4s users. It seems (at least to my tech-savvy-impaired self) that one cannot send a mass text message without revealing all recipients and their responses to the group.
Yes, it seems that instead of a "mass text message" like I had on my old phone, the iPhone has a "group message system."
I learned this the hard way with the very first text message I ever sent out on my iPhone.
I simply said "Guess what is exciting about this text?" and sent it to 3 of my friends who I know own iPhones.
PS - 2 of those friends are boys.
My girl friend who I sent it to responded first with this:
"I'm guessing either (a) it came from your new iPhone or (b) you just got a text from [she used the name of my current crush whose identity shall stay a secret ;)] and you're texting me to tell me about it"Both a and b were good guesses ;)
Then I responded to her AND, unbeknownst to me, my 2 guy friends with:
"I wish it was option b ;) but it is option a :)"And not long after, I got this text from one of my guy friends:
"Woo hoo for an iPhone"I was confused because he wasn't supposed to know I had an iPhone... that was why I sent out the exciting text. My girl friend and I had already discussed me getting an iPhone but he was supposed to be surprised. So I texted back to him:
"Hold on. Did you just take a lucky guess that I got an iPhone or did you see a message about options..?"To which he responded:
"Both :)"I thought, "Crap!" And then I thought, "Praise the LORD I didn't send this to my crush!" That would have been awkward.
No more mass text messaging for me!
2. No Alarm
My second iPhone fail was within 24 hours of owning the phone. I got it at 7pm on Thursday night and then by 9am on Friday, I was supposed to be up, showered and hitting the road to visit my brother in the upstate.
That would have happened if I had correctly set my alarm.
Instead, at 10 am I awoke to find that I had either snoozed it (which is unlikely since I was not familiar with the phone) or silenced everything including the alarm the night before or maybe I set it for pm instead of am...? I still, frankly, am unsure of what precisely I did.
But I do know I did not wake up on time. Fail.
3. Mistext
Next, I was trying to get fancy and use the microphone to tell Siri what to text to my friend Nathan. However, I was suffering from a cold so either my congestion or simply the fact that I always talk too fast and my words run together made Siri mistext my message.
See below (I'm in green and he is in white):
Note - Nathan knows me and the iPhone well enough to understand what I was saying even though Siri didn't. Also, note that I did not learn from my mistake in the first message on the top right; my second to last response says "seen" instead of "soon." Hopefully I will figure this out SOON enough :)
4. Sweet Landing
If you have known me or followed this blog long enough, then you are well aware of the fact that I am a klutz. As such, you probably are not surprised that one of my fails included me dropping the phone.
However, I outdid myself.
I didn't simply drop the phone, I dropped it into a plate of cake.
And, I couldn't have dropped it on the glass part or the section covered by the $40 case that I bought, no, that would have been too easy to fix.
Instead, I dropped it on the bottom where the teeny tiny sliver of exposed important parts that plug the phone into its charger were vulnerable to be coated in cake icing.
I tried to wipe it off with a napkin and even poked at it with a plastic fork but all to no avail. There was a resilient glob of yellow butter-cream icing making itself at home.
Fortunately, my friends' parents operated on my phone with a bit of compressed air and some toothpicks. I'm happy to report it is up and running, free of any icing or cracks.
Good as new :)
Which is a good thing because I haven't even owned the phone for two weeks!
Fingers crossed for no more iPhone fails but I'll keep ya posted if any more occur...
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