The weirdest thing happened to my phone today. This afternoon, I received a text message. After pulling my phone out of my pocket to see who it was, I unlocked my phone to reply. Suddenly, I knew something was wrong. The keyboard, all on its own, began typing random strings of letters. I tried to delete the text being written, but it was typing so fast, that in the time it took for me to delete a few letters, it had typed 10 more. After typing a nonsense message, my phone sent the text on its own. What was going on?!?
From there, I decided to power down the phone. Restarting my computer works when it’s being screwy, so I figured it would probably work on my phone. WRONG! After turning it back on, it began opening random apps, and clicking on things. At one point, my phone opened my inbox and began deleting emails, tried to order an Uber ride (we don’t even have Uber in Albania!), started calling some of my contacts, and even opened the Google map app and the blue GPS dot started moving, like I was walking somewhere across town. Holy crap! This is super frustrating and annoying! After not being able to close out any of my applications, I did a hard restart, which is apparently recommended by Apple if there’s an issue. Still didn’t work.
At this point, my colleague looked up “iPhone freaking out,” and apparently this is a thing with iPhone 6’s. We saw a YouTube clip of a phone acting like mine with the screen having a mind of its own. The comments said it was most likely a software issue, and to contact Apple for help. Of course, the only Apple retailer (not an official Apple store) in town has inconvenient hours for service, so they were closed by the time I got off work today. I am going to have to take time off work to go get it looked at unless it magically fixes itself tomorrow. I have never heard of this before, and am not super happy that it happened to me. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon! I realize that this isn’t the end of the world, by any means, but its definitely an inconvenience!
I am always complaining about my “dumb” smartphone (not an iphone), but it has never gone this crazy.
haha…I complain about mine all the time, too!
That happened to my daughter .. had to go to an Apple store .. and they fixed it. The phone was acting CRAZY!! Good luck fixing it over there!
Glad to hear it’s not just me and that it can be fixed!!
Yikes! We are so reliant on our phones for so many things that this is frightening. Hope it gets sorted out soon.
Yes we are! The other day I was thinking…man, I need a break from technology. I guess my phone decided to give it to me! haha
That is so crazy! You described it so well. Hope it gets fixed soon!
So far, no freak outs today! Fingers crossed!
How bizarre! I need to get a new phone, but now I’m wondering if I want a 6. Yikes! That’s crazy. Can you take out the battery? I’ve seen sales people do that sometimes. Good luck with this.
I would be afraid to take out the battery! Hopefully it doesn’t happen again!
Wow, I thought you were going to comment on how the maps app lets you know how long it will take you to get somewhere even though you didn’t ask. What you described would really freak me out! Glad to hear that it “can” happen though, just in case!
That would have been funny, but no…it just showed me moving all over the city!
This would have terrified me and driven me crazy. Maybe you could reset your phone to the original settings?
I’m hoping I don’t have to do that. It hasn’t freaked out yet today…so hopefully it was a one time thing!
There’s always 1 bad Apple….
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lol true
“we don’t even have Uber in Albania!” feels like a punchline in need of a joke. Thanks for turning your temporary (I hope) misery into an entertaining slice.
haha…thanks Brian! So far, so good this morning! Fingers crossed!