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SeaBreeze

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  1. The iPhone does work, but if it never optimise charges the battery then technically it’s not doing what I kind of want it to do and has done in the past. But I know it would be a software glitch rather than the iPhone being faulty. But I still can’t work out whether resetting the device if it never worked would be proportionate. I’m not sure it would be as the phone charges fine and the only difference without this feature working normally would be that the battery would degrade ever so slightly over many, many years. Thank you, you’re probably right it’s another compulsion. It’s so hard. I just want to be normal and not worry. Thanks for your honest advice and insight.
  2. I was wondering what you guys thought of my worksheet: Situation: Optimised Battery charging not working on iPhone Why: Because Apple Store reset my iPhone as there was a technical issue with it which resolved that matter Plan: To wait until I get back from holiday and re-enable optimised battery charging. Wait a month to see if optimised battery charging works by charging at same location and time each night - get into a pattern. If optimised charging doesn’t work, turn off and re-enable and wait another week or two. Clear location history, restart device and wait another month. If this doesn’t work then think about whether a reset of the device is needed or required. Is this issue a big enough reason to spend the time involved to do this? Would it resolve the situation? There is no guarantee and other things could go wrong - like ringtone not playing. NEGATIVE THOUGHTS: REALISATION THOUGHTS: This is my fault This is not your fault! Why would this be your fault? The iPhone was reset by Apple and you had a holiday a week later. You’re allowed to travel! Optimised battery charging is never going to work again There is no evidence that optimised battery isn’t going to work. It has worked every time before. True, you have gone on holiday and this interrupted the process. But it just means most likely it will take a few more weeks to learn. My iPhone is faulty Your iPhone is not faulty. It just takes time to learn. Even if on the very small chance it didn’t learn, it’s not your issue - you’ve not broken it. That would be the phone. You have had diagnostics run and they came back perfectly fine. I need to reset my iPhone back to factory settings Why do you need to reset the iPhone? There’s nothing wrong with it. Battery optimisation takes a while and Apple had said it’s a clever feature. It’s not even worth contemplating this. I shouldn’t have set up / used the phone before going on holiday Of course you should have. You need a phone and you’ve done nothing unusual with your phone. Hypothetically even if optimised charging didn’t work, I needed to set it up so it was worth it. Turning off optimised battery charging whilst on holiday - why did I do this? I did this because my battery hadn’t yet optimised and I wanted to turn it off so it didn’t learn anything whilst abroad. You are allowed to turn it off. I will turn it back on when I get back home. The old data will remain. This is a huge issue & I need to resolve this immediately This isn’t a huge issue, this is a very minor concern - if of any concern. The iPhone was reset at the Apple Store This doesn’t happen to other people! Lots of must worse technical issues happen to other people. This issue also happens to others, it’s just unlikely they would notice and it does eventually optimise.
  3. Yes, that’s a very good point - you’re completely right! I’m trying to engross myself with the onboard activities and by doing this it does seem to help reduce the distress associated by the intrusive thoughts.
  4. On my iPhone 14 I can’t set 80% as the top limit, but it optimised charges and holds the iPhone going from 80% to 100% until AI recognises you’re ready to use it. I’m just worried as I’ve gone on holiday since Apple reset the device a week ago & it hasn’t had a chance to learn my charging patterns. I hope it will learn the patterns on return, but my brain is saying I’ve broken the device. Thank you, it is related to my OCD & I will try not to use my tech whilst away. Hope you’re well and thanks for reaching out.
  5. Thank you. Those are good points, I’m trying to gently ease myself into the onboard activities. I hope you’re well.
  6. Hi everyone, I’m currently on holiday and I’m feeling overwhelmed. My OCD intrusive thoughts weren’t great at home, but they definitely seemed manageable. Now I’m away from home for ten days on a cruise, it feels like all the panic has come into force as I am not in my usual environment and small minor concerns feel 10x intense. For example, I was having an intrusive thought that I will have broken my iPhone because it didn’t have a chance to learn my battery charging techniques to enable optimised charging and I’m worried that going on holiday will have broken that feature for ever. I feel as though I need to go home early, reset my iPhone and get it used to charging in my flat for a very long time and then it will definitely work. But then part of me thinks this is ridiculous. Phones change locations al the time, they can’t just break like that? It might take longer when I get home to learn, but it should learn my charging patterns. Even if it doesn’t, is it really a huge issue? I feel guilty, ashamed and embarrassed as I am lucky to be on holiday. It’s really difficult being Autistic and having OCD. I’m not at all ungrateful being away, it’s just presenting quite a few challenges and I know this is a safe space to share. Any thoughts or insights welcome! Thank you.
  7. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I had a lovely breakfast out with my parents this morning - I had scrambled egg on toast with a hash brown and baked beans. Delicious! Just been reading the newspapers and now thinking about what to watch on TV this evening.
  8. Oh no, hopefully it’s not too long to go? Thinking of you.
  9. Thank you, you’re very kind to help. How are you?
  10. No, I haven't. Thank you Roy, it means a lot. I have been having a few tech problems today - which are genuine issues, such as my sound cutting out on Zoom when I receive a notification - but I've just turned off the notifications for when I'm on Zoom and this has resolved the issue. Now I'm trying to move on and not think. Is this what other people would do?
  11. Thank you, I am not sure how to do that but I could try not deleting the backups and ignoring them. I thought a few days or weeks would mean I would stop worrying, but I understand now it will take longer. Thanks again.
  12. I know that feeling, now I'm worrying about worrying all the time and feel like a bad person. It never ends haha. Hope you had a nice walk mate.
  13. Yes that's a good point, I didn't really think of it that way. Thank you. How are you doing today, Ian?
  14. No worries at all, hope you're feeling a bit better today.
  15. Hey Garfield, I just saw your post on the chat room thread. I’m so sorry you’re struggling too at the moment. Sending you a huge hug. Thanks so much for commenting whilst you’re struggling, you’re a very kind person. Yes I do know that and that means my thoughts are OCD related. Some good ideas there, thank you. Always here for you.
  16. Thank you, I will try your suggestion. It means a lot.
  17. Hey Ian, Thanks for replying. I’m sorry you have a similar pattern of OCD to me. Sorry, I should have said, I also have to delete all the backups and start a fresh as I feel the old backups are contaminated so it really is a huge task to set up everything again.
  18. My OCD is becoming too overwhelming to cope with anymore. I don’t think I can do this. I can’t work out what is OCD and what isn’t when it comes to rumination. I don’t want to spend another whole day resetting my iPhone and iPad when I only did this yesterday. Some apps I were installing on my phone, the links weren’t working and maps couldn’t find my location. I restarted the phone and it works fine now but I feel the phone is broken and that it is damaged because multiple apps weren’t working until I restarted the phone. I thought oh it’s probably the phone getting a bit confused with optimising with all the apps being installed and the restart like a PC restarting fixed it. But then I’m thinking maybe the phone is corrupt and I should start again? I seem to have lost insight but I know every time something small happens I can’t just reset everything or let the OCD consume me 24/7. I am at the end of my tether really and I’m so so sorry to go on all the time.
  19. I reset my iPhone and whilst setting it up and installing lots of apps some links didn’t work and location didn’t work so I restarted the iPhone and it works fine now. But my brain is worrying that it’s broken and I’ve caused it to break. I really don’t want to reset it again after spending most of the night setting it up.
  20. I’m still having a really intrusive thought regarding wanting to reset my iPhone and I don’t really know what to do. I cleared location service history and turned off significant locations on my iPhone and optimised battery charging is no longer working- I only realised because I read about optimised battery charging in a magazine reminding me to check. The support article for Apple says that turning off and clearing those locations means it can take a while for AI to learn when to optimise charge, but I feel like I need to reset my iPhone as I’ve broken it. ChatGPT says it doesn’t rely on those features and other people on forums have said they have significant locations turned off and optimised charging works for them. I’ve booked in to see a specialist at Apple tomorrow but I feel a bit silly going. I think optimised charging will work eventually, and if Apple say that should I not reset my iPhone? What happens if optimised charging never worked again? Would you guys reset your iPhone? I keep trying to tell myself imagine if you moved house - the AI would have to learn again & I only cleared some settings which Apple let you do and show you how to do on their support articles. Any advice appreciated - thanks!
  21. Happy Birthday to the forums and thank you Ashley and all the team for your hard work.
  22. Thank you, @taurean Thank you, basically I then reformatted the SD drive and reset the device a few times until everything felt perfect again. If I had never worried about the ‘what if’ when everything was fine, it wouldn’t have led me down that never ending cycle and that’s why I’m annoyed with myself as I should’ve realised that would happen. Thank you so much.
  23. Thank you so much for your kind reply, it’s very helpful. I’m trying to work out how I notice when I’m giving into the OCD to begin with which then leads to the spiral. Your ideas have really helped me.
  24. Thank you, yes. I suppose what happens is I don’t realise it’s OCD and do one small thing which then leads to another and another and then I realise I had given in last night and made things worse for myself. Thanks for replying.
  25. I’m so cross with myself, I have been engaging in OCD compulsions for most the evening. Argh, I was really trying hard not to give in. Basically I took out a micro SD card from my gaming console and it then shut off. After reading online you’re supposed to turn the device off before taking it out as it can sometimes lead to data corruption. I didn’t have anything open and everything worked afterwards but I was scared all my games would be corrupted so I reformatted and installed the games again. My brain wouldn’t accept that so I’ve reset the whole device and SD card and am installing everything again. Thankfully the resetting process takes five minutes on it, but downloading all the games for a second time will take another few hours. Four hours wasted. So cross with myself. I should have just coped with the fear when everything was working fine. How do you reframe this? I really want to be OCD free in life / not let the thoughts distress me and I’ve given in tonight and I’m super annoyed for having done so. Cheers.
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