My iPhone is dead!!

I don't know what happened. It was just fine last night when I put it to bed on its magnetic charger. This morning it is a brick. No display, no response to power button, and not even a beep when plugged into a charging cable. My computer can't see it, and neither can its best friend, my Apple Watch. I've never seen anything like this. I've never had an iPhone just stop working before.  

I don't know how to function. Without my handy ToDo list I don't know what I'm supposed to do today (except somehow get my phone fixed???). I weighed myself when I got up but have nowhere to log the results. I noticed that we were low on eggs and started to add that to my shopping list, but my shopping list is in my phone. I'm cut off from the world unless I want to use the landline (but all my contacts are in my phone!). If anyone is calling or texting me I won't know it. I can't even finish the library book I was reading, since it was an E-Book. I don't know what's happening in the world without my handy news notifications. I keep checking my pockets and wondering where my phone is. 

Hell, I don't even know if the phone is still under warranty. It's a little over a year old, so probably not. But I never had problems with an iPhone before except gradual battery decline, so I don't even know how to get it fixed. The Uptown Apple Store closed down, so where do I go?  Anybody out there with Apple products? Where do you get them fixed?  

Never mind... I fixed it

I found a Force Restart sequence online that I didn't know about: quickly press VolumeUP, then VolumeDOWN, then press and hold SIDE button. That did nothing.

But ... now the phone responded to the 2-button press that is supposed to bring up the scary Power Off and Emergency SOS screen. I was intending to power it down and then back up, since Apple doesn't provide a "hard reboot" command.  But instead of the Power Off screen, it flashed the Apple logo briefly and then quickly brought up my lock screen and everything was hunky-dory. I had to login with my password and re-login to Apple ID, but other than that it was all normal.

Not only that, it was more than half charged, probably because I had left it plugged in to a charging cable while I ate breakfast. There is something intermittently wrong with the mag charger on this phone, but the lightning cable always works. So I guess it was actually charging while it was comatose. All I needed was that Force Restart sequence and some persistence. 

I think what happened was that the mag charger drained the battery instead of charging it. I've had that happen before, but never to the point where the phone was unresponsive. Power cycling it has fixed the problem in the past, but this time the phone was so hung that I couldn't even power cycle it.