he's going on about design again

I have, I'll admit, been guilty of harping on about my love for excellent product design on my blog lately.  Well, it's my blog so I can so there!!

Anyway, I recently bought an ancient relic and stalwart of quite excellent design - an iPhone 4 from 2010.

I bought it on an auction site in pristine, but non-working condition for the princely sum of 99p.  

The fact that it wouldn't boot up after switching on didn't really bother me as I in no way intended to use it as a daily device,

But curiosity got the better of me and after spending a few hours on the internet and persevering with the old phone.... I didn't get it to work.  Undeterred, I put it back in its box and left it.  A few days later though I figured I'd give it another try, and this time lo and behold the thing flashed into life.

I was able to restore it to factory settings and actually get it working.  "Result" I thought to myself, and then thought it would make for an excellent YouTube video comparing the cameras on this and my new iPhone 15 Pro max.

So, off I went, taking pictures of various things on both devices.

It was when I tried to actually get the images from the iPhone and onto my computer that my problems started.  Firstly, my computer kept asking me to unlock the phone, despite it already being in an unlocked state.

Fine, I thought, I'll register it on my iCloud account and then surely the images would find their way onto my iCloud photo stream.

This was a decision I'd soon come to regret!

I managed to sign into my iCloud account simply enough, even negotiating the 2-factor-authentication Apple insists upon these days. 

But after trying to sync the phone's camera with my photos on my Mac, I entered what can only be described as a never-ending pit of woe and despair!

Time after time I was asked to re-input my password followed by a six-digit authorisation code. And time and time again I'd get part way through the process when another pop-up with another six-digit code would, erm, pop up on my Mac.  This went on for at least half an hour.

it is really rather lovely to look at though

Brow-beaten and defeated I decided to just sign out of iCloud on the phone to end this misery. Oh, if only it were that simple.  You see, to sign out you need, you've guessed it, your password, and a six-digit bloody code.  And so it came to pass that I was stuck in this same black hole again.

Until I managed to just be quick enough to type in all the details needed and just like that, my troubles were over.

A word of caution then, to myself and anyone else thinking about doing the same...

DON'T!!!