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

Fri Mar 5 09:38:30 PST 2021

 Paul -- 
The biggest risk of never upgrading hardware is that eventually it mechanically or electrically fails. In that case, you would lose literally everything, and there would be no hope of recovering anything. 
But not upgrading software runs an additional risk. Security updates cannot be applied to older software. This leaves your device and your personal data wide open to hacking. Apple devices with older software are wide-open to hacking.
Modern hacking can also lock the device so that the data it contains is inaccessible to the user. If an iPhone is hacked, access to your iCloud Account can also be lost forever. Even the devices you connect to in order to perform backups can become infected and locked. And the backups themselves can become infected, and they too become sources of further spread of the malware. 
So you are running an extreme privacy risk by never upgrading. And you are running multiple risks of losing everything on the device. And also of losing your backups and infecting any device which connects to those backups. 
Since there is no way to scan iPhones for malware, you have no way of knowing whether you have already been hacked, until your bank accounts are drained or your identity is stolen and misused. 
I do not recommend the type of user behavior you engage in.
But I'm betting you have been told all of this over and over, and you will never believe it until something truly catastrophic happens to you or your data.
-- Bob Primak
    On Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:28:05 AM EST, Paul Garmon <paul.garmon at gmail.com> wrote:  

 Hi,

Well, in all the years I have had an iPhone, I will say that I only lost
everything once (and it superficially sounds similar to this Error 14).
But, since I back up to my computer, I lost maybe 5 photos (out of 63,000
or so) and a few text messages, because I restored from a (relatively)
recent backup.  I ALWAYS run the phone near its limits (but do clear some
space when it says it's getting full). I pay $0 for iCloud space, and
didn't even connect iCloud until someone tried to share photos with me as
it turned out they could not unless I had iCloud turned on.  [I also have
kept free Dropbox at 99.4% full for the past 10 years, because the next
step up is way above my budget for them -- if they had a smaller/cheaper
plan maybe I would, but they don't, so I don't!]

Maybe it's finally time for me to get a phone with more storage? I have an
iPhone 7, which is now (almost) an antique? Still works fine, although the
battery is starting to go (though it can be replaced).  When I lost
everything, I did have to reload iOS, and of course, the Apple scam is that
(without going through hoops) you can only reload the latest version of
iOS, not what you have on the phone, so I had to jump up several
generations of iOS (and lost a handful of apps, because there was no
upgrade path for them: the old ones just wouldn't run on the new iOS, which
is why I try to avoid upgrading/updating much, if ever).  If I ever bother
to get a new phone I always double the storage [my 4 generations of iPhone
were: 32->64->128->256GB].  iCloud (and equivalents) cost monthly whereas
the phone storage costs just once. I guess I'll just wait and get an older
(by then) iPhone 12 with 512GB? [see: iPhone 13 could come with 1TB of
storage, according to new report | TechRadar
<https://www.techradar.com/news/iphone-13-could-come-with-1tb-of-storage-according-to-new-report>]
When the phone gets really full, I might delete some movies or large
attachments people text me, but usually just start deleting apps I don't
really use, and that usually takes care of it for a few months!  Maybe I'll
just find a new brand new screen protector to put on my iPhone 7 (I must
have one somewhere!), clear off a few apps or text attachments and declare
it "new"?

Paul

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:37 PM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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