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iPhone 14 Pro iPhone 14 bricked after data transfer

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sir42

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I did the direct data transfer and my old iPhone says the transfer completed (took about an hour). However I now can't get the screen on the iPhone 14 Pro to power on.

Strangely, I'm feeling haptic touches, so I suspect the phone is on. But the screen is pitch black.

Anyone else getting this or found a solution?

Thanks!
 
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sir42 said:
I did the direct data transfer and my old iPhone says the transfer completed (took about an hour). However I now can't get the screen on the iPhone 14 Pro to power on.

Strangely, I'm feeling haptic touches, so I suspect the phone is on. But the screen is pitch black.

Anyone else getting this or found a solution?

Thanks!
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Volume up, volume down, then hold the side button for 10 seconds. That will force it to reboot. If it's still a problem, you'll have to put it into recovery mode and hook it up to a PC or Mac and restore.
 
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Mine is still stuck on "Time remaining: About 5 minutes...." for half an hour now :/ not sure what to do if I wait or try to reset and start over. Damn apple
 
I just had exactly the same issue, the forced reboot resolved it - I think there was some OS upgrade applied at the same time because I got the ios16 upgrade notice when it rebooted.
 
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The 14 Pro setup was among the easiest I've ever done. Restored from iTunes encrypted backup, transferred my T-Mobile SIM from 13 Pro to E-SIM on 14 Pro with literally one click.

Apple Pay issue seems to be with Chase, which they are apparently aware of. I can't add two Chase cards at the moment to Wallet / Apple Pay. Unacceptable to me, I'm returning the 14 Pro and going to Android. :rolleyes:
 
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sir42 said:
I did the direct data transfer and my old iPhone says the transfer completed (took about an hour). However I now can't get the screen on the iPhone 14 Pro to power on.

Strangely, I'm feeling haptic touches, so I suspect the phone is on. But the screen is pitch black.

Anyone else getting this or found a solution?

Thanks!
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This happened to me. After a moment of panic, I plugged it into my MacBook Pro and it turned back on, and asked if I wanted to do the 16.0.1 download, which I did. No problems since!
 
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Mine just arrived. Should I plug it into my MacBook to update before doing the transfer?
 
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Mine just arrived. Should I plug it into my MacBook to update before doing the transfer?
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I had two numbers and transfer failed after activation twice each time after one of the numbers was transferred and it went to the "transferring from old phone" screen. I ended up putting it in DFU and forcing update to 16.0.1. finishing transfer now and all seems to be going better. maybe it was having 2 eSIMs or I kept hitting the bug. Strangely each time the phone started with the number having transferred successfully. This eSIM thing is kinda weird.
 
kmingis said:
I think I'd just do your usual transfer. If this were a widespread issue, you'd have tons of people on here complaining. Just keep that option in your back pocket if needed. (My 2 cents.)
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Yeah the eSIM thing took longer than I thought but it worked. Now doing the device transfer. Funny how it does the Apple Card first.
 
This is exactly what happened to me also. So bizarre that I could feel haptic feedback but the screen was staying off. I had to do a hard reset to get it back. After it booted it slowly went through a status bar but it eventually worked.
 
Yeah i had to force reboot on my 14 Pro. Annoying, a bit "OMFG what now?" ish, but... it's updating to 16.0.1 right now.
 
Same here - Wireless transfer completed then new phone went black for 10mins. Had to force reboot then installed the update.
 
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MrStoofus said:
I just had exactly the same issue, the forced reboot resolved it - I think there was some OS upgrade applied at the same time because I got the ios16 upgrade notice when it rebooted.
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Same here. After transfer is completed, my 14 pro max screen turned black. Had to hard reboot and then there was some os upgrade. But after that I still had to update to iOS 16.0.1.
 
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