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Recent Cases of iPhone Damage in the Current Political Environment

Repair Ticket #2948528

Phone smashed against wall after aunt wouldn’t stop posting long-winded, taunting comments on social media posts.


Repair Ticket #8888654

Screen cracked from a forceful drop when user discovered she had accidentally opened Breitbart.com.




Repair Ticket #1606442

Phone’s microphone burned out from repeated, shouting phone calls with Senators and other representatives.


Repair Ticket #0092731

Battery draining faster than usual after user searched “Canadian immigration,” “foreign passport application,” and “Trudeau single?” too often.


Repair Ticket #8095555

Phone’s speakers blown out from blasting “Pod Save America” podcast episodes at maximum volume for hours.


Repair Ticket #8871524

Front-facing camera light bulb needs replacement after being used for too many hours to illuminate classified national security and intelligence documents in a low lit, seated outdoor space at a private Florida club.


Repair Ticket #42009677

Siri no longer responds to vocal prompt “Siri oh my god help what the fuck do I do.”


Repair Ticket #8896653

Phone automatically connects to an unknown wifi network and shifts keyboard to Cyrillic alphabet whenever user walks by Russian embassy. Perhaps from a bug, user subsequently hears quiet whispering in Russian during some phone calls.


Repair Ticket #9877635

Screen and body damaged from using phone to spell “Please help us, Obama!” in wet cement near the former president’s new house in Washington DC.


Repair Ticket #8776522

Photos app overwhelmed and crashes repeatedly from user attempting to save too many pictures of Senator Elizabeth Warren, especially large photoshopped files of Sen. Warren hugging and high-fiving user.


Repair Ticket #8809665

User complaint that FitBit app does not have a feature to differentiate steps walked generally from steps walked during a protest.


Repair Ticket #9989964

Phone suffered water damage from sweat during an “intense and celebratory session of P90X in the Congressional gym” despite user’s “custom, Wisconsin-made ‘You Go, Speaker of the House!’ phone case.”


Repair Ticket #7774633

Water damage from accidentally having phone in pocket while sobbing, fully-dressed in a shower multiple times in a 24 hour period.


Repair Ticket #3356120

Voice memo recorder no longer recognizes and records hyperventilation.


Repair Ticket #2814472

User complaint that text won’t display large enough on phone’s screen to use phone as a protest sign.


Repair Ticket #9984431

Phone thrown and damaged after autocorrect changes a user’s frequently used phrase to “Ducking Trumpet” one too many times.


Repair Ticket #0996423

Screen dented from forcibly and repeatedly hitting retweet on Jake Tapper tweets.


Repair Ticket #8907643

Phone body burned and damaged by candle flames and hot wax during an “unholy rite attempting to hex and damn” certain political figures.


Repair Ticket #6624128

Safari crashes on mobile device due to too many instances of page “Donate to ACLU” being opened simultaneously.


Repair Ticket #3645129

Phone body and screen damaged when phone was in user’s hand while user punched an alt-right Nazi.


Repair Ticket #0098641

Screen damaged after phone was caught in the middle of “a tug-of-war between White House staff members and the President.” The phone subsequently fell onto the floor and was stepped on.