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The setup: wife’s iPhone 7 died - wouldn’t charge anymore, and Geniuses wouldn’t touch it, so she went out and got a new iP8 from the Apple Store.
Adult daughter has dropped her iP again and again, and now there are pieces of screen missing “but it still works, kind of”.
Meanwhile, I came across a eBay seller with great feedback that offers charging port repair for $30. Turns out it was the charging chip, which was $60 (total, incl return ship) but now we have the old iP7 back, and it’s working and in perfect cosmetic (and functional?) shape. Wife happy with her new phone- would the daughter like the iP7 as a hand-me-down?
Well, how much memory does it have? - I have a lot of pictures.
Besides the looking-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth aspect, it turns out I have a 200 GB iCloud family account that we don’t use much. She could keep her photos there, right? Can she access them from her phone in a transparent sort of way, with thumbnails of all her pictures, the full versions of which get called down from the cloud on demand? Is that how it works? And can we assure her somehow that we can’t see her pictures at will?
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If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
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rjmacs wrote:
If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
Well she’s a 30 year old single adult. I doubt she’d go for keeping all her photos accessible to Mom and Dad, and I wouldn’t blame her.
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pdq wrote:
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If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
Well she’s a 30 year old single adult. I doubt she’d go for keeping all her photos accessible to Mom and Dad, and I wouldn’t blame her.
Actually, seems like you're in good shape! This page says you can share storage and everyone retains privacy!
Woohoo!
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rjmacs wrote:
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If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
Well she’s a 30 year old single adult. I doubt she’d go for keeping all her photos accessible to Mom and Dad, and I wouldn’t blame her.
Can she afford her own iCloud storage? It's really not that expensive...
Yup- sure. She’s an entirely capable adult with a good job (who happens to keep dropping her iPhone and doesn’t want a case, but...)
But would that work? Does anyone have day-to-day experience with cloud storage and whether it’s seamless or not ? I would guess she might only go for it if you can’t really tell easily if the photos are resident on the phone or being pulled from the cloud.
She’s in NYC, BTW, so her coverage is good.
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Yup- sure. She’s an entirely capable adult with a good job (who happens to keep dropping her iPhone and doesn’t want a case, but...)
But would that work? Does anyone have day-to-day experience with cloud storage and whether it’s seamless or not ? I would guess she might only go for it if you can’t really tell easily if the photos are resident on the phone or being pulled from the cloud.
I think that is an oxymoron, dropping her iPhone and doesn't want a case. My 14 year old dropped her iPhone until it looked like spiderweb. When I replaced my 6s, I gave it to her and and told her her next phone would be a flip phone if this didn't last.
Its been my experience that people take batter care of the things they pay for. Perhaps its time for your adult daughter to find out.
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Yup- sure. She’s an entirely capable adult with a good job (who happens to keep dropping her iPhone and doesn’t want a case, but...)
But would that work? Does anyone have day-to-day experience with cloud storage and whether it’s seamless or not ? I would guess she might only go for it if you can’t really tell easily if the photos are resident on the phone or being pulled from the cloud.
Its been my experience that people take batter care of the things they pay for. Perhaps its time for your adult daughter to find out.
Oh I agree. She paid for this last one. That didn’t save it.
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Oh I agree. She paid for this last one. That didn’t save it.
Perhaps offer her a used flip phone. Plenty in pawn shops. Just switch the sim.
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pdq wrote:
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If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
Well she’s a 30 year old single adult. I doubt she’d go for keeping all her photos accessible to Mom and Dad, and I wouldn’t blame her.
Then she should have her own iCloud account.
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N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
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If you give her access to your iCloud parental controls, and she gets to restrict your access to things, perhaps.....
Families thrive on trust. Is this an opportunity to cultivate more?
Well she’s a 30 year old single adult. I doubt she’d go for keeping all her photos accessible to Mom and Dad, and I wouldn’t blame her.
Then she should have her own iCloud account.
She would, in a Family Sharing arrangement. And she'd keep her privacy (as noted above). Win-Win!!
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