u/iceunelle

I have a 13mini currently. I've been fairly happy with it and have been resisting upgrading because I don't like large phones as they're uncomfortable and cumbersome to hold. However, I made the mistake of updating to ios26 about 2 months ago on my mini, and it's completely ruined the functioning. The phone is very glitchy now, the battery life drains outrageously fast (even when I'm not using the phone!), battery heats up like crazy now, and I swear even the keyboard is less sensitive.

I was told that the reason ios26 works poorly on the 13mini is because it's an older phone and ios26 doesn't work well with older phones. So, I'm genuinely thinking of upgrading just to have a functional phone, which is super frustrating tbh. The 17e is the next smallest phone, which is why I was looking into it, but I'd be potentially open to the 17 if it's significantly better than the 17e.

What are your opinions of the 17e compared to the 13mini? Or 17e vs. 17? I've seen mixed things online about the 17e camera. I'm not a photographer, but I do like taking photos on occasion casually (meaning, if I walk by some cool flowers, I'll take a photo of them). The 4 main things I do on the phone are: internet, email, call/text, and gps. I'm not a super techy person and don't care about a perfect phone; I just want a functional one.

I developed tinnitus 8 months ago after a gum graft. i think the combination of having my mouth open for an hour (which permanently fucked my jaw up) and taking a lot of ibuprofen on the first day caused my tinnitus.

My tinnitus did decrease in volume after months of TMJ physical therapy, but never went away. 3 weeks ago, I got a steriod epidural done for my sciatica. i had a bad reaction to the shot; horrendously increased sciatica pain for a week afterwards and a sharp spike in my tinnitus. My sciatica seemed to return to baseline, but my tinnitus didn’t. I’m going crazy with how loud it is and I’m writing this while in bed, unable to sleep. Background noise drives me crazy, so white noise/green noise/brown noise/etc does nothing to help and just pisses me off because it’s more noise.

Will my tinnitus ever go back down again? I never in a million years expected a steriod shot in my back to worsen my tinnitus and I’m deeply regretting my decision to do it, esp since it did nothing for my sciatica.