[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] iPhone "Glitch" -- Error 14

Robert Primak bobprimak at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 2 04:35:10 PST 2021


Error 14: Apple iPhone users report losing thousands of pictures after glitchhttps://www.wcvb.com/article/error-14-apple-iphone-users-report-losing-thousands-of-pictures-after-glitch/35687401#

Tech experts like Hosic say the problem, known as iPhone "Error 14," happens when the phone's storage fills up"We run into these issues where the phone can't receive texts, it'll start deleting photos, doing strange things and eventually just crashes," Hosic said. "There is no solution at all with the current technology, nor is it even acknowledged as a problem."

Well, it turns out, a lot of iPhone users never clean anything out, never back up anything locally, even if they know how to do so, never download anything from iCloud, and just keep paying more and more money to increase the amount of iCloud storage space they have available.
Apple has never been big about educating its users about offline backups of photos and files. Most backup software is aimed at Windows users, not Apple users, and certainly not smart phone users. (I'm an everyday Linux user, so I have no skin in either game here.)
This is not a glitch in the technology. The only glitch may be a lack of warnings saying,"You are running out of space on your phone and/or in iCloud. Buy more storage NOW, and offload something from that phone, or else your phone will soon LOCK UP and you will need to do a FACTORY RESET, which will result in the loss of ALL YOUR DATA!!"
Why is it that Windows users never seem to need this kind of warning? Oh wait, they DO!! And Microsoft does not include DIRE WARNINGS in Windows or the Microsoft Cloud Account or One Drive. 
So there's a Windows Error 10? (I mean other than that godawful default interface.)
This looks more and more like the real problem is between the device and the chair. (PEBKAC) (Or in this case, PEBPhAC) (Ph=Phone)
And maybe within the Apple Culture of "It just WORKS!" That is, until it doesn't work any more.
I guess it just isn't cool to sound like your mother telling you to "clean your room!"
Thanks for this piece of insightful and timely news, WCVB!
-- Bob Primak

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