Crushed or Stolen iPhone X

Pretty sad day for me when I was singing in my car just driving down the road and realized... I did not have my phone on me... I knew right away that I likely left my phone on my car or something as I was grabbing my keys out of my backpack, and then got in and drove off. I immediately turned around (by then I had been driving for maybe 5 minutes) and I went right back to where I was parked on 300 East a couple blocks south of campus.

I asked a nice lady if I could use her phone, and tried to remember my husbands phone number... But, didn't have it memorized because I always just say, "Hey Siri, call Trevor." So I called my Mom and she looked on find my friends and found where she thought my phone was... (but it was actually just the last spot that her phone tracked mine before mine got crushed (most likely)). So about 20 minutes later I called my husband on my gmail app, and he had already made his way to BYU from Orem because I wasn't home yet and I told him I would be... Then when he went to find me on the Find My Friends app it just said that my location was not available. He told me how he had a very real moment thinking of what he might say at my funeral, and thought that I was kidnapped, and when I finally did call he thought it was my kidnapper calling him to let him know he had me. He was a bit relieved to find out it was just my phone and not me that was missing(Trevor).

We searched some more for my phone, and retraced my steps in my car. He almost left his car keys in my car when we parted ways... And that would have been bad, because he would have had no way to contact me. 

We both got home, and it was dark outside, he was trying to unlock the door to get into our basement apartment, and asked me if I could shine my light on the door, I reminded him, in a very bothered tone that I couldn't because I no longer have a phone to shine the light... 

I was nervous about how much of my things were backed up, and was relieved to find that all my pictures were backed up to my iCloud, and that my last backup was within 24 hours from when I'd lost it... I had been keeping track of what percent of the readings/ participations I was doing for this class on my iPhone's books app, and that is gone at least I think  it is... So I will have to re-think through the semester and hopefully give myself a fair grade, still hoping that maybe it will be on a books app on the iPhone, but it wasn't on the computer, which makes me think its gone. 

I still need to go through a lot of things and talk with an apple specialist to find out if all my voice recordings, journal entries, and other things on apps are there or not...

One thing I will say is I feel bad that I did not right away find away to contact my husband. I feel bad that my worries of finding my phone may have been greater than my worries of his response when I did not come home when I said I would be. 

I also, just want to say it is important that you know where all your data is backed up. It's a little scary to kind of hope that I have backed everything up, but still need to do more investigating to know whether or not it is there. 

This reminded me of when I was on my mission, and my companion downloaded pictures from the week to sent to her family off of my camera, and then they were all lost, I was so mad at her! I also remember being so extremely sad when I got off my mission, and my mission iPad was not backed up properly, and I lost everything on my iPad, which included so many pictures... I'm glad that I at least am learning to not get too worked up over things... Although I am still really bummed. 

EVERYONE JUST BACK UP YOUR THINGS, you never know when you will just do something kind of thoughtlessly that will be costly... Also... Memorize your spouses phone number if your married...

Just thinking through all the things that I used that one piece of media device for... I feel pretty anxious not having it on me, and not knowing where it is... It honestly has thrown me for a bit of a loop. I wouldn't say I am addicted to my phone, but definitely I was attached, and feel really off. 

-Kimberly