Last winter my nephew was playing with my old Redmi phone and somehow changed the unlock pattern without telling anyone. I found out the hard way when I tried to open it later that night and my own finger kept drawing the wrong shape over and over. Ten attempts later the phone just froze me … Read more
Two years ago I was posting on Instagram like a hobbyist and wondering why nothing was working. My photos looked decent. My captions were fine. But I had zero idea who was actually seeing my posts or why some flopped while others did okay. A friend who runs a small clothing page told me “just … Read more
I was sitting next to my cousin who has a gaming phone and every time he adjusted the volume this glowing colorful bar slid across his screen. Mine right next to his looked like something from a decade ago. Plain gray bar. Boring white background. Same thing every single Android phone has shown for years. … Read more
Last year I moved into a new apartment and my landlord had already set up the internet before I arrived. Great for convenience. Terrible when I actually needed to connect my second phone and had absolutely no idea what the password was. The sticker on the router had faded so badly I could only read … Read more
My hands were covered in flour halfway through baking something for my niece’s birthday when my phone buzzed with an important call. I could not touch the screen without ruining it and I definitely was not going to answer with greasy flour covered fingers pressing a pattern lock. That single moment made me curious about … Read more
I still remember the first time I used an in display fingerprint scanner. It was on a Vivo phone a friend had bought and I genuinely tapped the screen like five times before it worked. I felt kind of dumb honestly. I was so used to the old fingerprint sensor on the back of my … Read more
Two years ago I left my phone on a table at a wedding for maybe fifteen minutes. When I came back it was gone. Someone found it near the parking lot an hour later and handed it to the venue staff. Nothing was stolen. But that fifteen minutes of not knowing what could have happened … Read more
Last year my cousin picked up my phone at a family dinner just to check the time. Ten seconds later he was scrolling through my gallery laughing at old photos. That was the moment I realized my default screen lock was basically useless. It was a simple swipe. Anyone could get in. That night I … Read more