I had the same problem, too. I think this is a prime example of how Apple’s secrecy harms the user experience.
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Apple Investigating iPhone 14 Pro Models Freezing After Data Transfers
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The exact issue from this article happened to me after transferring data from my 12 Pro to my new 14 Pro. After the transfer “completed” the screen was blank and I couldn’t do anything. I left it for about 20 min in case some other process was going on before force restarting it. After force restarting it was fine and finished the initialization. All my data was there thankfully. Honestly between that, my Apple Watch Series 6 failing to resync to my new 14 Pro, the stupid “Preparing your Apple ID.” (or whatever similar message it was) taking forever before the terms of service would show up on the iPhone (had to restart the process multiple times for it to work), and the the stupid image scan which stopped working on both my iPhone and Apple Watch when trying to reset them up, this was by far the worst experience I’ve had transferring my data to a new iPhone in a long time. Thankfully I’m a tech-minded individual who works software QA for a living or I wouldn’t have had the patience to figure this out. This has to be a nightmare for some others. Not sure what’s going on at Apple but this software is complete garbage when it comes to transferring data. Just glad it’s all working now.
Well, compared to the old Apple, the current Apple is actually somewhat more open, ie they even released public betas.
Imo this is more of Apple's own arrogance, that they thought they were superior in software and hardware, and probably rushed things here and there because of their yearly cycle and the need to put out new tent pole feature every year to wow audiences on their keynotes.
By now, I'm sure people are not expecting any fancy new features anymore on a yearly OS (Android's tent pole features for the last 2 versions were simply themes). So Apple should probably do a tick-tock release on iOS, with a focus on refining the OS ala iOS12 on every other year.
Nope, it's not the "Steve Jobs way", aka "It just works", but it sure as hell definitely is the "Tim Cook way", aka the "Only profits matter, who cares about quality control and functionality way".
If you ask me, code that’s lasted THAT long at its base must be doing something right…
Thank you so much for not implementing 8k video Apple. Almost got me.
And next year? See ya 6 months after launch when you've worked out all the fricking bugs.
And next year? See ya 6 months after launch when you've worked out all the fricking bugs.
Wow, the ultimate apologist. Imagine if the people in charge of building cars had that attitude.... of course the cars randomly crash and kill people, they are much more complex than they were 10-15 years ago.
My friend, I am a software engineer, and I can assure you that Apple's attitude to quality control is utter rubbish. I simply can't believe how careless they are. If I were Tim Cook, I would fire Craig Federighi in an instant, and completely clean out the software team management, and then go about hiring an actual competent team.
The cloud is fine when it is done well. It's just that iCloud is a complete bucket of trash. I wish I could simply completely and utterly remove it from all my Apple devices.
Yeah, except of course the 15 is going to have its own set of horrendous issues.
Happened to me too after completing a device to device transfer. But it is not freezing, it’s actually just failing to turn the display back on. If you tap the screen you can feel it responding to touches and vibrating when you hit an incorrect unlock code. So don’t hit the screen too much as after I gave up and hard rebooted I got the “iPhone is unavailable for 1 minute” indicating I’d got the passcode wrong too many times. 
Hope it is not a widespread issue and Apple can release an update soon.
I don't think that was ever true. Sure, this one is kind of horrifying considering it is the first experience with the phone but there are always patches within days of launch.
And I remember the days of having to wait in line at the Apple Store only to have AT&T’s network fail to verify accounts for everyone’s phones because the network was overloaded.
After every new iPhone and with every new iOS release, users enter the bug hell.
I think it is common knowledge that you‘ll have to wait at least 3 months to be safe and after 6 months iOS is almost stable until after 12 months a new iOS version is released.
I think it is common knowledge that you‘ll have to wait at least 3 months to be safe and after 6 months iOS is almost stable until after 12 months a new iOS version is released.
Is this a joke? As in “you’re holding it wrong”.