TIFU by not backing up my stupid cell phone and more specifically my videos.

This is easily the biggest FU that I have been personally responsible for in the last few years.

I have an iPhone. My phone died on Thursday. I was laying in bed with a napping 1 year old when my phone just went all flickery like the matrix and may it Rest In Peace.

Two weeks ago I found out that Amazon Prime offers unlimited storage for photos. So I backed up 11,000 photos. Yes, 11,000. I have made two humans and I take a ton of pictures of them. My oldest is almost 10 and I have a 1 year old who is almost 2 so I have taken a ton of pictures. So my pictures were safe.

I didn’t have all the videos backed up. I had some of them backed up but I didn’t have all of them saved. About a year ago I put them all on my lap top but my lap top had issues and a factory reset. But it was fine because I still had the originals on my phone. I have been meaning to back my phone back up but life has been busy and I kept saying “oh I’ll do that soon.”

Yes I know it was dumb. Yes I know it is my own fault. Yes I suck. Yes I should have had them backed up. Yes I know I could have had more iCloud. Yes I sure as hell will have them in two or three different places going forward.

I have an old iPhone 5 in a drawer that has about half of what I am missing on it. So that was a wonderful discovery earlier today. It has the “If you’re happy and your know it CRAP your hands” video my daughter recorded herself when she was three. That was the one that I would have been heartbroken over so I am happy I got that.

TLDR: back up your photos AND VIDEOS from your phone.