Could it be some aftermarket camera on the front that they put in there?

Do you mean a hard reset like wipe data and put it in factory default or a hard reboot with volume up/down, hold right button?

Probably an 11

So I started down this road back in 2009. Imo android phones really sucked in 2009. The iPhone 3GS was pretty wow. I had previously used a Treo, BlackBerry, Nokia n80, various PDAs, and te iPhone seemed the most polished. Mind you I thought the first iPhone sucked royally especially bc if the lack of real gps, no flash, AT&T asshats made Apple disable MMS because there were afraid it would break their network lol, anyways…

I was already somewhat in the Apple ecosystem with ipods. I had owned iPods for several years at this point and it was also a plus that I could just connect this new device that would have all my music and playlists as I set them up and I didn’t have to carry a separate phone or use a different music management app. I stayed with iPhone because I got more entrenched in the Apple ecosystem. Most of my social circle use iPhones which makes messaging easier, although I have friends and relatives in mh country of origin so I still use WhatsApp a lot.

Perhaps more than you wanted in an answer? 🤷

It’s relatively new.

Went from 11 pro to 15 pro. Same wallpaper and Lock Screen of my family. I can tell the phone is new lol.

Wuuut???

I also have the Google voice app in my dock. For anything business - aka that’s not personal like friends and family - I use GV, and give out my GV number. I got burned with scam calls, and it was a royal pain to change phone numbers.

Almost daily. I have people in my favorites like my wife, mother, father(when he was alive), best friends. I look at missed calls, I check voicemails(yes, Gen Z people, voicemail, because the grown-ups still leave voicemails sometimes). To dial people in my contacts I sometimes open contacts, sometimes open the phone app.

Cheapest would be a Roku stick. It supports airplay.

Like a second tail on a dog. Useless.

Well in theory journaling file systems should be able to repair but nothing is perfect. Do you really want to gamble with a backup?

No I don’t like the look of ss all scratched up either, so I’d slap an ugly car on my beautiful iPod

Many people tore m type with two thumbs

Lots of stainless steel ;-) He loved the patina look on stainless [ipods]

Sounds like potentially a carrier issue?

I usually have two on hand. A clear case and non clear

Yeah no, Apple screwed the pooch on this one. It used to be simple and you could easily do it without the convoluted bullshit they implemented in iOS 17. Asshats…

That’s why Gboard does not work for me for example, because I use English and Romanian, and aside for a few special characters, it’s the same character set. But I have to rely solely on G board knowing or predicting what word I’m typing or what language I’m typing. The Apple keyboard, the way, it is still works better for me because I can force it to a specific language.

I agree the keyboard is crappy, and if you use slide typing it’s absolute crap. The period placement is a huge pet peeve. I think it affects right handed people more than left handed - just anecdotally, but I could be wrong.

Gboard…I tried it many times over the years and more recently with my iPhone 15. My experience is that it’s worse than the Apple keyboard. I use slide typing heavily, and daily use two languages. Gboard…is cumbersome in my case because it relies solely on guessing the words you’re typing, and because multiple languages are all a hodgepodge in one single keyboard pot (aka with Gboard you don’t explicitly switch languages) the autocorrect gets in the way a lot. Also when long pressing a key to choose a special character like ă, the delay is way too long. So I went back to the devil I know.