Don’t feel bad, my considerably better digital camera* (than most cell phone cameras) didn’t do much better! But I did capture a jet contrail beside the eclipsed sun, which made the surreal seem even more so! I’m sure that plane made sure to be in the path of totality as it occurred, but it was crossing the path, not following it...
The rapidity of the decline in light just B4 totality (we got 2:13 where I was at) was spooky, too.
*My “pinhole camera” didn’t work worth squat, either, but the little crescents in light coming through tree leaves were really “neat”.
Of the totality, I suppose I spent 1-1/2 minutes actually viewing the corona around the black disc of the moon - it was truly wonderful!
Yeah still the coolest thing ever to experience live.