What do you expect a lawyer to do exactly? No lawyer is going to take your case.

Sorry that happened to you 😭 let us know how your meetings go tomorrow, hopefully you can reschedule some?

FWIW my iphone 'bricked' overnight with an update pretty recently too. I had to google it on my laptop but this resolved the issue -

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412

I was pretty frantic too but nothing compared to your experience.

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That really sucks that that happened to you. Unfortunately in all the terms and agreements any compensation really comes down to fixing the product and they they are very specific that compensation will not exceed the cost of the product. Loss of data or time is never covered by any tech company and I don’t know of anyone that’s been able to get around that. Even if you were able to file a successful suit against Apple you’d have a lot to prove which may not be provable. The first would be proving you had automatic updates turned off. After that you’d have to prove what all you lost in the way of money by missing your flight. Even then, they’ll probably state that any disputes have to go to arbitration. In days like today with all the technology we have and how much we rely on it, things are occasionally going to go wrong. It’s one of the reasons my wife prints out every boarding pass, hotel confirmation, car rental confirmation, etc. before we travel.

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I have my updates set to “download only” to avoid any potential issues like this. There aren’t many updates that are so important that they require immediate application. When I have a spare ten minutes, and I’m not using my phone, I install the already downloaded update.

As far as a lawsuit for material loss, your loss was avoidable by adjusting your settings. I’m sure there’s lawyers out there that will pick it up as a class action..they love those. But unless apple settles, it wont be difficult proving the user shares some responsibility.

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Never do auto updates😂 Always wait a week or two and check wether people report problems…

Backups are your responsibility! No one forces you you to have all information and 2FA on your mobile! Never put all apples in one basket!

A lawyer is just a waste of money. Electronic devices can cease to function from one minute to another - happened a hundred times a day all over the world.

I’ve had a couple people with this issue. Did you force restart your phone (vol up, vol down, hold power until Apple logo appears)?

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Well afaik you can set up more that one trusted number for access to your iCloud (afaik).

You can call an Uber or taxi - no need for an app or account.

You can still get regular paper tickets from the airline/travel agency. So get the paper plus an electronic one.

Always have 50 bucks in cash with you - you never know😉

Well back in the days bricking a mainboard through a firmware update was always a scenario. When I got my first Galaxy bricking by using custom ROMs was also not that uncommon. But apart from the update you can just have electronics fail - for whatever reason or you can drop your phone and it’s dead😉

If you depend on your devices for making money (as in work/business) you need backups - plain and simple. And that means easy access backups - like local ones. In the past Apple, Amazon and other cloud providers also had trouble with their (cloud)services. So you can’t really rely on having access to online storage 24/7.

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Well I am still used to old school IT - if you will - where these kind of problems were not that uncommon and/or on the other hand you heavily relied on "physical paper stuff”😂

Well here Uber is heavily regulated and afaik can be called - same with taxi. After all there are still lots of people without mobile or at least smart phones. Well of course you will Ulf need a phone - that’s why I always suggest to keep a spare - on the other hand you can go down to a cafe/bar and let them call a cab or go to a taxi stop (if that’s not a thing in your area that’s obviously more important to have a backup mobile or lane line).

Not really a car enthusiast - don’t Teslas at least have a key card or electronic key if they don’t come with a regular key? That iind if dependency would definitely be a no go for me. I prefer it more "simple”. Less gizmos, less chances of things failing. With new - even less sophisticated than Tesla - cars a simple small accident can end up with electronics failing and the car not moving an inch. You can run into a garbage can and the electronics can prevent you from starting the car again even if you just had minimal damage in your from bumper.

In your scenario obviously some unfortunate events send the rock in motion waltzing down the hill… There is no 100% safety net - unless you go overboard with backups of course.

With business trips by plane I prefer doing these in the afternoon/evening - after all you are not wasting holidays but are on paid time 😉 So you can sleep out, can take your time getting to the airport (during the day there are usually more options than early in the morning) and after checking in early you can hang around at the lounge for coffee, bourbon or whatever.

No that this comes over the wrong way - I am not against new tech - in general. But we need to be aware of its limitations and prevent to totally depend on them. A backup in the cloud is smart (if it’s encrypted or doesen’t contain private information) but an additional local backup will work even if the internet or the cloud service is down and/or if you forgot your password or your account got compromised. Keep it simple.

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This is another reason that I love my iPad so much. It’s basically a larger clone of my phone. Although I don’t think I would ever rely on something that has to be charged to start my car, but would also never drive a Tesla

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