Can Your iPhone Delete All Your Photos Without Warning?
Can Your iPhone Delete All Your Photos Without Warning?
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Publish Date: 2026-05-04 18:00:00
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Via iStockphoto / @heymerisa TikTok
Your phone dying on you, as in completely giving out, is not only annoying but costly. It’s only made worse if the many photos and memories you have on there get lost in the ether, too.
One woman had to go through this recently with her iPhone, and the Apple Store wasn’t much help. To make matters worse, her tech made a comment that stuck with her, and not for a good reason.
Things Get Weird At The Apple Store
In a TikTok, Merisa Jernigan (@heymerisa) said her iPhone 15 Plus suddenly blacked out while she was scrolling on the couch. There was no warning, no low battery alert; it was just gone, and she couldn’t get it to turn back on.
“I had the weirdest experience at the Apple Store,” she shares in the text overlay.
She made an appointment and rushed out the door in a panic, crying, convinced her photos and videos were gone forever. She gets to the store, links up with an Apple Genius, and immediately gets a comment about her driver’s license photo.
The tech takes one look at it, then at her, and says, “Oh wow, people really get done up for their driver’s license photos.”
“I was like, excuse me, sorry, like I normally don’t look this bad. Like I’m obviously upset, I’ve been crying,” she points out.
They Couldn’t Do Anything
The employee couldn’t fix the phone. He did, however, find her a replacement in pink like her current phone. But when she got to checkout, she noticed the color wasn’t quite right.
“I’m really sorry, but no,” she says. “That is neon magenta. That is not baby dainty pastel whimsical pink that I had before.”
She acknowledges she probably should have checked the display model. But she also said she’d told him repeatedly how much she loved the phone, how much she loved the color and thought he should have mentioned it was a different shade.
“I’m overestimating a man,” she says.
Then, wrapping up, the employee started walking her through the new phone’s…
