General Discussion

She told me in confidence that she had encountered an iPhone that was in her words, possessed. She had started working with it as a normal semi skeptical trained technician who had a sizable experience with her profession.

She told me that a client had brought in the phone and that it kept doing odd things. Mainly via Siri. Calling numbers seemingly randomly, playing music at odd hours, operating apps, and so on.

Because the iPhone continued to run the odd behaviors in the shop. The technician drew on her experience to speculate that maybe there was static in the microphones or a loose connection with the touchscreen. She gave it a complete rebuild and retuned it to the customer. A few days later the phone was back with the same complaints.

Since so much effort had already been expended on this phone it was replaced for the customer. The technician put the old phone on the workstation and didn’t pay much attention to it for awhile. Then, she noticed that in the interim it had not only continued with the odd behaviors, but that they formed a pattern. They weren’t random behaviors. The numbers it dialed were consistent and the music it played indicated a preference.