On the ferry back from France, shortly before we docked, I had a notification on my phone that a number of apps hadn't been used for some time and were therefore slated for deep sleep. I didn't pay this one too much attention - given that these were indeed apps I wasn't using, and since there wasn't any option to not take this action anyway, I shrugged and moved on.
But then the horror began.
It turned out that one of the affected apps must have had some connection to the touchscreen driver, but I soon found that it had become painfully unresponsive - pressing one key would lead to another number appearing, or multiple key presses, or none at all. Which made unlocking the phone impossible.
A Google on LC's phone suggested that the most likely remedy would be to restart the phone. Which was not unexpected - turning it off and on again is not only a fine joke, but also the most likely way to resolve most IT issues (and mobile phones these days are hugely sophisticated computers, so this is an IT issue). The big problem with that being that my phone required you to unlock the phone to either restart it or to shut it down.
Luckily, though LC may dispute this, I'm not absolutely dependent on my phone for my life. I know there are quite a few people these days who use their phones for everything, to the extent that they simply don't carry any cash or cards to pay for things - just use Apple-Pay for everything.
So there ensued a few frustrating hours as I carefully, painstakingly, tried again and again and eventually managed to get the thing to unlock. Whereupon I was able to quickly restart it, and all was well once more.
But the moral of the story is simple: don't become so dependent on your phone that if it is lost, stolen, or gets locked or damaged that you're utterly paralysed!
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