For many months, I have been using my iPhone as an alarm, relying on its vibration, or haptic feedback, to wake me up as a Deaf person. Not only did I have my phone to vibrate, but I also always had my phone’s sound on the highest setting possible. Using a phone as an alarm clock is acceptable. I am sure many people now rely on their phones for this purpose, rather than having a traditional alarm clock. However, these devices aren’t always effective for heavy sleepers. Speaking of heavy sleepers, I am one of them, combined with being Deaf, so there were the times that it failed to wake me up, and I always had the phone laid beside me on the bed, especially that the phone was either on my arm or my shoulder because as I said I am Deaf so to wake me up is feeling the vibration from my phone. Those times when it failed to wake me up were building my frustration up because I am not a fan of sleeping in for more than four hours. For many years, my bones have, for some reason, not been able to tolerate sleeping or lying down for too long. Ironically, it is said that as you get older, you want to sleep longer, but for…
I have been experiencing a pressing issue with my iPhone 8 Plus, which I have owned for over two years now. I plan to continue using it, even though I am overdue for a contract renewal, but I am holding off because of the highly anticipated new iPhone this year, 2020. They are discussing how 2020 is the year to be on the lookout for, especially for the iPhone, which is my reason for holding out, so I am waiting for one in September 2020. Nonetheless, when a gadget ages, it usually becomes more prone to problems, and like there is a saying – nothing is unbreakable. My iPhone 8 Plus screen started coming off on one side. The problem wasn’t my screen; it was the iPhone’s battery, and the screen started coming out of its body (phone) due to the battery swelling up. Yes, batteries do run down if you heavily rely on charging your device, and this is what happens to my iPhone because I always keep my phone connected to my desktop for charging and syncing. After all, in my mind, I should always keep my iPhone fully charged in case anything happens, such as a power outage, or if we are going somewhere unexpected, or for other reasons. My iPhone’s battery swelled up, pushing the screen…
I bet that some of you misses my tidbits article right?! I know some of you do and I sometimes do miss writing some tidbits article because they allows me to discuss or share my opinions on more than one topics and not just one topic alone which can be very boring on some days but nonetheless I have decided that I have kept all of you waiting for too long for a new tidbits article so here it is once again. First before I get into it, I want to apologize for having all of you waiting forever for a new tidbits article from me and a few reasons that I haven’t written a tidbits article for a very while. I have been very busy with many things such as the fact that it is summer so many of you know that summer usually is when everybody goes out doing some activities and enjoy their summer around with their family or friends somewhere on vacations as most usually do but for me I have been almost too busy to do anything that I would like or usually do. From the beginning of the summer I started seeing an ex of mine whom I loved for several years since we both were pre-teenagers which that means younger than the age…