It wasn't as bad as that time 2½ years ago [1] (no, really! (Nice job Apple! You narrowly avoided someone drunkenly spending tons of money!) [2] you have (El Capitan is the captain around here, not me) [3] no idea (Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) [4] how bad (iCloud this and iCloud that. What about uShutTheXXXXUp!) [5] it was (I leave this without comment) [6] back then (El Capitan is the captain around here, not me, part deux) [7]) but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. The battery on my iPhone wasn't lasting as long as it used to. I would be lucky get to a day's charge out of it, and I don't really use it all that much (using Shazam [8] was a death sentance for my iPhone—I'd usually get one use out of it before the screen would go dark).
On Thursday, Bunny and I stop by the Apple Store [9] only to find out that a battery replacement would require an appointment, and the first one was for Saturday. Okay, Saturday it is.
At the appointed time on Saturday, we arrive at the store. I will say we didn't have to wait all that long, but on the down side, I would have to leave the phone overnight for the replacement.
Okay, picking it up on Sunday it is.
Today, I got the phone back. It works. I was able to check multiple songs with Shazam with no discernible battery drain, so things are looking up. Until I decide to pull some pictures off the phone.
Usually, I just plug in the phone to the Mac-mini I have, run the Photos app and import them. Only this time I coudn't. What should have been a minute operation turned out to be a grueling half hour torture test trying to find out what happened to the “import function” of Photos. I was able to finally resolve the issue by rebooting the Mac-mini!
Seriously, Apple? You're better than Microsoft! This shouldn't require a reboot! Come on!
I swear, they really need to bring back Steve Jobs.
[8] https://www.shazam.com/apps