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The Forgotten Lives of Forgotten Phones

What I learned about myself by restoring my first ever iPhone

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Ben Ulansey
Jul 27, 2024
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A couple of weeks ago, I found an old iPhone of mine sitting in a drawer. It had died a natural death all the way back in 2013. Its screen was so cracked that if it were to ever see the light of day again, I wasn’t sure I could even manage to make out what it had to say. But on a whim, I decided to see if my local repair…

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