iPhone 14 Nightmare

Never thought that I am going to have a really bad experience with iPhone.

The story started from the release of iPhone 14, I went to few malls in Kuching looking for a device.  I was not 100% sure that wanted to upgrade my phone yet. Reasons for my hesitation were 1, I wanted to switch from Celcom to Maxis, 2, there are few features that I wish included in this iPhone 14, but were not there.

So last weekend, after another round of frustration at Aeon Mall, visited Maxis and Celcom (even tried to book from Celcom Blue Cube but their line got problem), hubby persuaded me to order one online.  I have never bought from online store before, hubby done it a few time with no issue. So while watching movie on Netflix, hubby helped me to order for my new phone from Celcom online.

On Thursday, the courier guy called to inform that my phone is ready for delivery, but I was only available on Saturday morning.  Come Saturday morning, I was excited to get my new phone. During unboxing, I was surprised to see the big size of the phone.  I said to hubby’why is it big, is this Pro Max?’  We had to check the email again and it was confirmed that we ordered an iPhone Pro Max 256GB.  Huwaaa I dont want a Pro Max, it’s too heavy!!!  And I even pre-purchased the Pro casing.

That was my 1st from a series of nightmares.

Then I started the phone to phone data transfer, after few hours of waiting, it got disconnected my storage was at 230gb out of 256gb at that time. I had to stop trying at 5pm since I had to back to kampung.

Next day morning, I tried again after deleting some of my App, storage now at 180gb, after few round of failure, with error snot enough capacity.  At 10pm, I gave up, and hubby said he will do the pc backup and transfer from there.  This is another option but I prefer the phone to phone transfer as it was a seemless experience for me previously.

1st round hubby did the pc transfer, it stopped halfway due to insufficient hard disk space.  Who has 256GB space in drive C?

After some reconfiguration and manual transfers of photos, hubby finally managed to transfer my data in pc. He asked me to go to sleep and promised that he will figure it out.  He knew I was getting frustrated.

On the next morning, my new phone was ready on my bedside and I did the face verification.  But I had to reset most of my password since I don’t remember them, iCloud, gmail, instagram, all was reset.

Next night mare, my previous sim does not support eSim. Arghhh, 10am we we’re queuing at Celcom Blue Cube the Spring, really, thank goodness for the public holiday on Monday.  Then I had to look for new casing and front cover.

In between all that, there were so many things that did not goes smoothly eg my record on Health app, the data only show up to 2021, no I don’t like that, I had to rebackup iCloud on the okd phone, but I dunno how to import that portion of data only.  I had to log out and log in again on the new phone, luckily that worked.

Another night mare is that I store most of my working file on gdrive, which I accessed using my laptop, and the password does not match, again the retrieving password is was so difficult with all the 2-way authentication now. Why?!

I really feel like giving up, never in our 12 years of experience with Apple had we faced so much hassle in upgrading.  I felt defeated. At 1st I thought of using this phone for a year before chaging it to 15 Pro, not Max, now I dunno. I am scared.

After analysing the error, I gound out that there was an eerror in the Voice Memo file size.

How can the Voice memo be at TB when my old phone is only 256GB.

Also on Saturday afternoon, Emmett got scratched by our cat, Coco.  How dis that happened? It’s another story for another post. Needless to say, I had to being him to Bornwo Medical Centre for vaccination even though our cat had rabies vaccination already.  Better be save.  Kesian dia, 3 jabs on the 1st day, another 2 followed up.

Our Apple boxes since iPhone 3.