iPhone problems #firstworldproblems

Technology is great until it fails you and leaves you stranded in the real world.

My iPhone has been doing this to me for some time now and it has got to the point where I expect it to.

The worst thing is the battery life. It is hands down the biggest annoyance in my busy life. It just DIES at the worst of times. I remember about this time last year, I'd had a terrible morning on public transport where my phone had given up about half way though the journey (100% to flat), then I failed the test that I'd gone for when I eventually got to my destination, then basically got stranded in a shitty little town called Huntingdon for ages, then had a massively annoying and long bus journey home where I just wanted to cry and talk to my dad. I felt alone and I didn't even know what the time was! It was at that point I lost all faith in my iPhone battery. I went out and bought a new iPod (any excuse 😜), a watch, and a power bank for if I reaaally needed to use my phone. I figured I could still survive at least now if my phone did die.

The issue remained not much more than an inconvenience (aside from the odd cut-off phonecall or something) up until today when I was reminded of how annoying it actually was. Something as simple as a FUCKING SHOPPING LIST IN THE NOTES APP AND MY PHONE COULDNT EVEN HANDLE THAT. I literally wanted to smash it to smithereens right there and then. And that's not an urge I get often.

It's worth noting that I've had the phone 2 and a half years and I have absolutely caned it in that time. It has been my personal computer, life organiser, iPod, means of all communication, camera, torch, the entire works. And for that reason I am patient and loving and considerate because I feel like me and my precious iPhone 4s have been through a lot together. It was the first thing expensive I got for myself when I first started working and saving my money. I am definitely over-attached to it. I know this when I find myself making excuses (such as these) in the defence of the now extremely unreliable life-prohibiting device.

I've tried all the tricks to improve the life of it. But it's got to the point now where it won't run the update to IOS 8 because the memory is too full. LOL. I'm so done. I'm not even about to enter into this battle.

I'm going to go and buy an iPhone 6