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ph.rei

macrumors regular
Original poster
Nov 23, 2021
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Has anyone seen the pink screen of death on iPhone? (found the name while searching the issue on google)
I got it today on my 13 pro ios 15.2. ?
I opened the camera app, swiped right to video mode and just before i start recording everything went pink for a few seconds. Phone switched off and restarted by itself. Apple support run a diagnostic online and couldn't find anything wrong with hardware or software. Since then i updated to 15.2.1 and hope it doesn't happen again. It did leave a really long "panic-full" log but i have no idea how to interpret all the data in it.
Should i be worried?
 

ViMK3

macrumors newbie
Jan 16, 2018
12
16
It happened to me more than once but in a different situation and i figured out how to reproduce it… doing a forced restart of the iphone vol +, vol-, siri ... at a certain point the turn off stops blinking and if release the siri/power button at that moment the iphone crashes with pink screen. I don't know why it happens, i have had several iphone 13 pro max and all of them did…
 

GusHerb

macrumors member
Jun 25, 2013
59
2
Chicago / Northwest, IN
It happened to me more than once but in a different situation and i figured out how to reproduce it… doing a forced restart of the iphone vol +, vol-, siri ... at a certain point the turn off stops blinking and if release the siri/power button at that moment the iphone crashes with pink screen. I don't know why it happens, i have had several iphone 13 pro max and all of them did…

My phone locked up, screen went pink and restarted a few days ago after it had connected to mmW 5G, then the other day I force restarted cuz I was having some other issue I thought might’ve been the phone and saw the pink flash again. I didn’t even realize it til I read your post but this is exactly how I’m reproducing the pink flash. When I properly held the power button until the screen went black, then it didn’t flash pink.
 

Taz Mangus

macrumors 604
Mar 10, 2011
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3,504
My phone locked up, screen went pink and restarted a few days ago after it had connected to mmW 5G, then the other day I force restarted cuz I was having some other issue I thought might’ve been the phone and saw the pink flash again. I didn’t even realize it til I read your post but this is exactly how I’m reproducing the pink flash. When I properly held the power button until the screen went black, then it didn’t flash pink.
Leave feedback on Apple Feedback with the steps to repeat.
 

SumYoungGai

macrumors 65816
Jun 11, 2013
1,167
1,253
SF Bay Area, CA
Saw it happen 4 times while a lightning cable was plugged in; other end was to a MacBook via USB-C. Any chance that Lightning is the common denominator?
 
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