I did this once, but the phone wasn’t even mine.. a client’s phone.. I wanted to weep. Same feelings.. How could I have done that! I knew better.
But this is where AppleCare comes in.. they replaced the phone for a pittance.. done.
LOL, I have been using Macs since 1986, and after a while I realized AppleCare wasn’t worth it for me. I think last time I got AppleCare must have been back in the mid-nineties.
Funny...I had a Mac 9500, and the motherboard went bad a about a month after my AppleCare expired. It was $1500 for a new one if I recall correctly, and I just kept after them, writing letters to Apple, etc. Eventually, they grudgingly got me a new motherboard. Probably refurbished, I bet. Anyway.
After that, I never got AppleCare again.
But it sure would have helped this time, though.