The iPhone 6 Plus is dead. Long live the iPhone 6 Plus.
A while ago I had a problem with my iPhone’s headphone jack. A little ball of lint got stuck in it and I couldn’t plug in. I took it in for service and they pulled out some fuzz and life was good. The next time I plugged in headphones the same thing happened. The plug went in a little further, but nothing connected. I vowed to go back, but months went by with nothing.
Until today! Last night I booked a service appointment and backed up the phone on my desktop. Today I was at the store for less than five minutes before the Jack was clean. I asked them for a pair of headphones I could test with and the plug clicked in sweetly. When I got to the car I plugged into the stereo and… Nothing. The music came through the phone’s built in speaker. I got out of the car and went back in to the store.
They don’t fix broken headphone jacks, the just replace the phone. Sad face. I had a few minutes to wait so I started frantically signing out of everything. iCloud first, then my work email, then as much as I could get to. They brought out a new phone and swapped the SIM card (never seen them do that before), and let me paranoiacly test the headphones. Then off I went.
Now I’m updating the OS to iOS 8.2 so that I can restore from last night’s back up.
The moral of the story? Always keep an up to date back up of your devices!
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