seeing as the iphone8 I had was already such an old phone and honestly needed a LOT more work over repairing the broken pixels, just getting a new phone seemed to be the best thing for my money's worth personally. the screen & back of the phones glass was overall cracked, inside parts shown, the mic didn't work without corded headphones, not to mention I had to get apple headphones just for it to work, thanks to no headphone jack. I had a case for it too but since the phone was pre owned & free, for me, its just personally not worth my money getting it repaired. I was super lucky my roommates mom had an old working phone she could pass down to me.

$25 for activation > $300 for a new phone or repairs. apple is already so limited on everything it's expensive just to own one you got for free.

case wasn't the issue this time. I received a phone that was already damaged, I've dropped it maybe once in the year I've had it. I went to sleep with it being normal as always and woke up with the screen yellow and pixelly. Google says moisture was in the screen, at&t guy said the pixels were bleeding. all my old phones dying was the cause of teenage neglect.

I aim for keeping the same phone for as long as I can!! I got my first one at 12/13, I'm 21 now, and. been through maybe 5 or 6 phones? 2 were hand-me-downs. and to be fair as a teenager you're so much more clumsy, and some things just happen. I plan on trying to keep the one I have now for as long as I can and replace what I need to when I need to. especially since the emojis on this one are so cute ▼⁠・⁠ᴥ⁠・⁠▼

this is actually my first iphone lol. my past ones were all cheap android phones from metro or walmart, my first one was a hand-me-down, but still an android. thank you so much for the suggestion though!