What patterns? If anything, personally I see my Apple devices work better and are more stable than ever. The more users you have, the higher absolute number of errors you will get, but I’m quite confident that bugs in terms of relative numbers have decreased.
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iPhone 16 Pro Bug Causing Random Freezing and Restarts
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Reddit also reports eSIM card activations causing crashes and reboots. Apple should just bring the SIM tray back, oh wait all non-US iPhones have it. Apple tries to control and lock down more and more stuff into their devices. It's getting sickening and frustrating dealing with Apple's greed and incompetence.
I've also had an iPhone 16 Pro since day one. Constant restarts. I called Apple Support, the device was replaced and this new replacement iPhone is still restarting. I restored my iPhone for the first time yesterday using iTunes and this time I didn't use iCloud to backup it but rather my Mac. I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days to see how it behaves. Always had a panic full log after the restarts.
I have the 16 Pro (upgraded from 14 Pro), wanted it for the better camera and the "camera button".
I have to agree that the camera button annoys me more than it serves me.... how many times I pick up the iPhone and accidentally press it, and opens the Camera app... oh well, I think I just have to get used to it.
And amen to removing the headphone jack being an awful idea... more so on my iPad than iPhone though.
Mine neither, pretty pleased with mine. I don't love it as it's just a phone at the end of the day.
I prefer the camera button placement rather than being on screen but would have been better with sleep button back at the top so you have one completely flat edge on the device.
The vast majority of restart come with a panic-full log file error.
Analyzing the full you’ll find a Wi-Fi issue of some kind.
I think (hope?) is a software related bug, but if it is not, it’s a real issue. The thing that makes me confident that is a bug is that many user, even with a in store phone swap, encountered the same error.
A couple of guys in Reddit have exchanged units without success.
Analyzing the full you’ll find a Wi-Fi issue of some kind.
I think (hope?) is a software related bug, but if it is not, it’s a real issue. The thing that makes me confident that is a bug is that many user, even with a in store phone swap, encountered the same error.
A couple of guys in Reddit have exchanged units without success.
So I guess the hardware is in beta upon release now, too? Sheesh.
Why would you go from Android to Apple now? I’m curious because I’m going the opposite direction.
Ever since iPhone Xs and Xr and iOS 12-12.5, the iPhone and iOS have been going backwards in quality, reliability and stability.
Those two were the last solid iPhones so far.
Apple has become a disaster.
Clearly adding the new features so many of us wanted and like was too much for them.
They had to keep things very very basic and simple in order to be the ole reliable Apple we all love.
Those two were the last solid iPhones so far.
Apple has become a disaster.
Clearly adding the new features so many of us wanted and like was too much for them.
They had to keep things very very basic and simple in order to be the ole reliable Apple we all love.
Guess I’ll stay on 17 for a while longer … what a mess lately.
Apple should promote it as a selling point: “iOS 18 - it can freeze moments in time”
Apple should promote it as a selling point: “iOS 18 - it can freeze moments in time”
From a business and operations standpoint it’s pretty clear Apple are making a dogs dinner of developer relations which has a knock-on effect for their newer product initiatives. The AVP is on life support in terms of apps, the Apple Watch was a non-starter in that space. The litany of bugs and inconsistencies continues to creep higher. The shotgun approach to not create price umbrellas is leading down the well-worn path of 80s and early 90s Apple in terms of a confounding product matrix. Instead of transformative experiences it’s penny-ante feature drips. It’s all about maximizing shareholder value- which is great as long as the Venn diagram that includes shareholder value and CSAT overlap - which is increasingly NOT the case. Colleges will study Apple’s decline in freshman level business courses because for all the obvious signs Apple has institutional blinders on. Take privacy for example- when push comes to shove its a pure marketing angle when it gets in the way of shareholder value- and this happens most often where China is concerned. For all their attitudes Apple likes to gaslight folks with they are clearly fine with the human rights abuses and companies/regimes supporting said abuses as long as it make their production lines go brrrrrrr. So yeah patterns are everywhere. And Apple is doomed to repeat history because they didn’t learn from the past.
I have had this happen two or three times since receiving the iPhone 16 Pro.
There appears to be a bug with some iPhone 16 models that is causing random restarts, according to complaints on Reddit, the MacRumors forums, and the Apple Support Communities. Affected users are seeing their iPhones freeze unexpectedly and then reboot.
Reports about the issue have been ongoing since the iPhone 16 models first launched in September, and have continued to this week. The iOS 18.0.1 and iOS 18.1 updates do not fix the issue, as it has continued to happen to users even after installing the latest software.
The problem seems to pop up randomly. The display will stop responding or will be very slow to respond to touch input, and then the iPhone will do a quick restart. There have also been reports of the iPhone restarting unexpectedly when in StandBy mode.
Some users who contacted Apple shortly after the new iPhones launched were able to get replacement devices, but have had the issue reoccur. Almost all of the complaints are about the iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max, so it may only be the Pro models that are impacted.
For most people, the issue is sporadic, but some users have seen 10 to 20 crashes per day. In some cases, doing a fresh install and not reinstalling from an iCloud Backup seems to have fixed the problem, so it is possible that this is a bug related to iCloud.
Let us know in the comments below if you've been experiencing this freezing and crashing issue.
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Same issues. Hot phone explains battery life issues. SOC is cranking for who knows why.
I try to remind myself the camera button is there. Yet I keep forgetting about it and have yet to use it once to take a photo.
I think, like the Touch Bar, the most damning thing you can say about the camera button is that you forget it’s there. A bunch of us at work have this same observation
iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB with ZERO issues like this. I setup doing phone-to-phone transfer, bringing over all my iPhone 13 Pro Max contents.
While the discussion was raging yesterday I pulled a spare 16PM from the lab and transferred my 13PM 256 over to it. I’m starting to see the issues just like with the one I didn’t restore from a backup and set up new. Something is definitely wonky here but I can’t say why some folks don’t see it
After reading doktordok's issues with their new iPhone, they might be joining you and going back to Android!
