As I mentioned in my May 25 post, I took my iPhone 6 into the Genius Bar to see why the phone was locking up. Well the “genius” there said my touchscreen was defective after she ran a simple diagnostic on it. Hmm, it really seemed to be a resource contention issue from my observation. So for $109 they would replace the screen. Okay, I suppose. So I roamed the mall for two hours and when I came back I had to wait for another 15 minutes. Then they came to tell me the phone still didn’t pass their tests so here, you get a brand new phone – and only for the $109 plus tax. Hey, not bad, right?
Well, it restored from backup very clean so I was happy, for at least a week. But then I started having little pauses, and yep, it now is as bad as ever. Sometimes I reboot it four or five times before it starts working. I think since I restored it from backup and now the same issue is happening on a different phone it may be caused by one of the apps or some corrupt data or a virus. So this morning when it was acting really bad I uninstalled some of the apps I had added this spring. Some of the job search related apps are a bit sketchy. Once I did this I got it to work a little better but it is still not right. So now I need to figure out if it is data or a virus. Swell, I get a new phone and restore from backup so I put the same virus on the phone?
I blame all this on job searching. Too many crummy sites. Too many bizarre emails. I also blame Apple, because I think they are awfully snooty. They didn’t even look into what processes were running and just assumed I must have dropped the phone. Needless to say I really miss my Samsung Galaxy. Runkeeper is much better suited for the Android app too. So I know my next phone will not be an iPhone.
Update - I figured out the culprit application and it was a surprise but since its removal no problems whatsoever. It was the GMail application. I wonder if it is corrupt? Since I’m not a big fan of GMail and it is not my primary email I have been good with it removed from the phone. The iPhone has been working well since late June.