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iPhone 6 restarting by itself
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Are you doing something when it restarts, or is the phone just sitting there on standby when this happens?
The so-called "white screen of death" on iOS 7 was pretty much the same thing -- random restarts occurring for no apparent reason. It happened to me once every few days until iOS 7.0.4 came out. But, that flaw was well-known and Apple acknowledged that a software bug caused it.
I haven't seen this as a common complaint about iOS 8.0, so you might want to start with a restore to factory settings, and then reinstall iOS (although you might want to wait until the botched iOS 8.0.1 update gets fixed first). And then restore your phone from a backup (assuming that you've already backed up your phone). Otherwise, you can always make an appointment at the Apple Store. This is the kind of thing you want to isolate as quickly as possible, because defective hardware could also cause it.
The so-called "white screen of death" on iOS 7 was pretty much the same thing -- random restarts occurring for no apparent reason. It happened to me once every few days until iOS 7.0.4 came out. But, that flaw was well-known and Apple acknowledged that a software bug caused it.
I haven't seen this as a common complaint about iOS 8.0, so you might want to start with a restore to factory settings, and then reinstall iOS (although you might want to wait until the botched iOS 8.0.1 update gets fixed first). And then restore your phone from a backup (assuming that you've already backed up your phone). Otherwise, you can always make an appointment at the Apple Store. This is the kind of thing you want to isolate as quickly as possible, because defective hardware could also cause it.
It happened as I was opening Apps. I'll see if it continues but thx for the helpful reply.
Much appreciated.
It's a iOS 8.0.0 bug. Kernel exception can cause it. I guess the phone was not rebooted but re-springed. It will be fixed soon. 
Is this an actual restart, or more of a quick refresh of less than 10 seconds?
If you ever use accessibility and option the 'BOLD' characters, the phone will do a very quick refresh and not a full restart which takes a little bit longer.
If you ever use accessibility and option the 'BOLD' characters, the phone will do a very quick refresh and not a full restart which takes a little bit longer.
Same thing here!
This exact same thing happened to me today, just now. I was listening to my music and clicked on my messages to open a new text and it appeared to reboot or refresh. That's why I decided to hop online to research if I should be worried. If this is an IOS issue then I wont worry too much because I would be pretty confident that a patch will be created but I just hope it doesn't have to do with the phone itself. I'll give it a little longer and see if this happens again. Anyone positively know this is a software issue or if apple is aware?
This exact same thing happened to me today, just now. I was listening to my music and clicked on my messages to open a new text and it appeared to reboot or refresh. That's why I decided to hop online to research if I should be worried. If this is an IOS issue then I wont worry too much because I would be pretty confident that a patch will be created but I just hope it doesn't have to do with the phone itself. I'll give it a little longer and see if this happens again. Anyone positively know this is a software issue or if apple is aware?
Same thing is happening 5-6 times a day to my iPhone 6 my wifes iphone 6 is fine and we both don't have and apps installed on it and have not restored it from iTunes I'm thinking it's my phone only and I will return it and use my 5s and wait a month or two until I feel that they have fixed this problem.
I have been experiencing this same thing on my iPhone 5s since updating to iOS 8. As others have mentioned it is similar to the issues in iOS 7.0 that I believe we're fixed back in 7.1.
My wife's 6 did this the other day. She was browsing iTunes and it just went black and restarted.
Hasn't happened since.
Hasn't happened since.
My wife's 6 did this the other day. She was browsing iTunes and it just went black and restarted.
Hasn't happened since.
What IOS is she on?
Was it the Quick Restart, white screen+
?
Hey just wanted to let you know that this was happening on my iphone 6 and I brought it into apple the other day. They ran the normal diagnostics and it showed a springboard error (iduno if thats the name, i forget) they swapped it out immediately. So if it is still happening, just bring it in to get it checked out. My new unit has not rebooted once yet.
