PeterN
The phone would turn on and off, but nothing could be accessed. According t the good folks at the Apple store the diagnostic code was a bad internal switch, or something like that. It cold not be repaired. Perhaps I should have sent nospam to argue with them.

Sandman
Since the topic was data loss, are you here claiming that this internal "switch" failing also made your phone backup fail? Or are you saying that in spite of your iPhone explictly asking you to, and Apple providing it for free, you declined automatic backup of your phone?

PeterN
Nobody, except you, said my phone was not backed up. Typically, you make assumptions with no factual basis.

Sandman
Because if you didn't decline, and you had backup, then your replacement iPhone would just ask for your iCloud credentials and then just restore your new phone with all the data from your old phone.

PeterN
Decline what??

The discussion was about the data on my hone, not on my backup, or restoration to a new phone.