Do you use the cloud to back up your phone or tablet? Or how about your computer? It is much easier these days to restore your devices in the event of a catastrophic event, such as the loss of your device. The trick is you have to do it.
Apple has made the iCloud system work seamlessly with the hardware ecosystem. What once meant connecting your device to a computer and wait for syncing as been changed to automatic sync while you sleep and charge.
You no longer have to worry about losing photos, texts, notes and passwords. I know hat you’re thinking, but they have your data, they could do something nefarious with it. Well chances are they aren’t. Of course we know that Apple contends to be super privacy minded, but they still draw some lines.
What is the most important thing to you no to lose? I would bet photos and videos of your loved ones and friends. What are you and I doing to preserve these memories? You never know who might need to get into your iCloud or phone? Maybe it’s life saving?
Two stories for you.
I was on a cruise and thought my iPhone X was more water resistant than it actually was. So I happened to be around water and it got wet. The phone stopped turning on. Basically if it wasn’t for my iPad and iMessage, I would not have had a communication tool. Everything was synced between the devices. However, what about the phone? It was warranteed and I had a new one a day after I returned. I didn’t lose anything. Everything was in the cloud and my phone restored to normal in just a few hours with all of my photos and everything. I would have been devastated to lose all of my personal things.
Another story is what happens if someone dies? If you don’t have a plan, those precious memories could be lost to the ether forever. iCloud storage is extremely secure, and it is very difficult to reset a password if you lose access to your phone or another device that is logged into that account.
Take the time to strategize the memories you would like to ensure are available for your family and friends. Create shared albums, do whatever is necessary so that your loved ones are able to keep your memory alive. You just don’t know how long you will live. Life is a crapshoot. You think you’ll live forever, and all that you are could disappear but it doesn’t have to be like that.
Maybe you have no idea what it is like to lose someone important and wish you had photos of their life. Maybe a parent, a child or close friend. There is nothing that fills a soul up more that seeing YOUR face. See you in all the quirky ways that we are. Take the selfies, take 100… who cares, because we are super critical of your image and only 2 or 3 will matter. But in 10 years, they all will matter, and you’ll have forgotten how wonderful that moment actually was, and maybe someone else needs to see that photo as well.
I hear this word narcissist a lot this days. We’ve created a device that feeds into everyone’s ability to be their own image manager, and that’s a good thing. I don’t think that taking selfies makes you a narcissist. In a world where we are disconnected, it helps use to maintain connections, because seeing each other matters. That’s what makes us real.
When you love someone, you want to see them. You want to see them be amazing, doing activities, living their best life. But we need it all, the painful, self reflecting moments, the hard times. Friends support each other, that’s just part of love.
One day we will be gone, and what memories will you leave? How do you want to be remembered? But don’t let who you are fade away from the world. You matter to someone. You do. There is always someone who thinks you are special and you matter. Leave the gift of you, in some special way, even if it’s just a series of photographs of your life. How you are remembered is up to you.
