02-27-2020, 03:13 PM
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?
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?