Ha, oh boy. I may have jokingly poked fun at my g/f b/c she told me her iPhone just randomly shut off.
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Some iPhone 6s Owners Seeing Their Phones Randomly Shut Off
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Its not the iPhone 6s thats having the problem its IOS 9 thats the problem, because my iPhone 5 and iPad are doing the same thing.
Oh no! Random shutoff hot home button-gate.
Since the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have been available on September 25, many users have begun reporting that their 6s or 6s Plus will randomly turn itself off completely, even when it's left unattended and with sufficient battery power. It's unknown what causes the shut off, but some users have also reported their home button feels warm to the touch when trying to revive their phones.
Users on Reddit, the Apple support communities and the MacRumors forums have experienced the issue. While 6s and 6s Plus users have seen the majority of incidents, some iPhone 6 users have also reported the issue, indicating that iOS 9 may the root of the problem.
After the issue turns off the phone, the only way to turn the phone back on is to hold the power and home button down for 10 seconds, forcing the phone to restart. MacRumors' forum users have been organizing around the issue, creating a poll to see how many people are affected and gathering data (model number, OS and actions before shut down) to send to Apple's engineering team.
Thus far, the data collected indicates that no specific action causes the shutdown. Additionally, iPhone 6s users and iOS 9.0.1 users appear to be the most affected by the bug.
Users experiencing the issue can contribute to the data pool in this MacRumors' forum thread.
Article Link: Some iPhone 6s Owners Seeing Their Phones Randomly Shut Off
This is a natural feature of every smartphone. If you're doing something extremely taxxing on the processor, it may shut off because of overheating. Perfectly normal.
Because our software is made specifically for our hardware.
Cue Jony...
"By randomly shutting off iPhone, we have been able to reduce battery consumption by nearly 10%."
It's times like this that make me wonder how Apple can get away with preventing us from reverting to earlier versions of iOS.
When I bought my iPhone 5s, it shipped with iOS 7. I updated my phone to iOS 9, which I feel has made the phone slower. What purpose does it serve for Apple to prevent me from reinstalling iOS 7 so the phone is just the same as how it was when I bought it?
Apple doesn't do this with OSX on Macs. I can reinstall OSX Lion on my MacBook Air 2011 any time I feel like it. Why is iOS treated differently?
When I bought my iPhone 5s, it shipped with iOS 7. I updated my phone to iOS 9, which I feel has made the phone slower. What purpose does it serve for Apple to prevent me from reinstalling iOS 7 so the phone is just the same as how it was when I bought it?
Apple doesn't do this with OSX on Macs. I can reinstall OSX Lion on my MacBook Air 2011 any time I feel like it. Why is iOS treated differently?
I updated the family iPhones. 5 out of 5 all display this shut down bug.
They are:
iPhone 6S Plus (2)
iPhone 6 Plus (2)
iPhone 5S
They are:
iPhone 6S Plus (2)
iPhone 6 Plus (2)
iPhone 5S
You're not holding it in front of your Dyson Air Multiplier right.
In all seriousness: I purchased a 128 g iPhone 6s Plus no contract from AT&T and I couldn't be more pleased. It was delivered on Tuesday evening. I've been using it heavily for the past two days, and I've had absolutely no problems. I'm loving it. I bought a 6 last year, and I regretted not buying the Plus.
Reminds me of iOS 3.1 and iPhone 3G. I had random shutoffs which went ignored for a few months until iOS 3.2 was released.
It doesn't sound like the phone is actually shutting off if a hard reset is rebooting it. It seems that the display is just crashing.
Mine experienced a similar thing a few days ago.
Happened on a iPhone 6S Plus (64gb Space Grey) while battery was on 60-70%.
I tried soft-setting it with home + sleep button but that didn't work initially. After trying again ~10-20 minutes later it worked and the phone was back to normal.
Was not doing anything with the iPhone at the time by the way.
Hasn't happened since though.
Happened on a iPhone 6S Plus (64gb Space Grey) while battery was on 60-70%.
I tried soft-setting it with home + sleep button but that didn't work initially. After trying again ~10-20 minutes later it worked and the phone was back to normal.
Was not doing anything with the iPhone at the time by the way.
Hasn't happened since though.
Rubbish. If you had read the article, or any of the forums attached to the links provided, you'd quickly understand that many or most people experiencing this problem weren't doing anything with their iPhone. It. Simply. Shutdown.
What the hell do we need Android trolls for??
Apple is doing a fine job shoving their head up there own ass all by themselves.
This is just getting embarrassing. Pathetic.
"-gates" make baby Jesus cry.
Enough ignorance already with the gate crap. Every issue isnt a "gate"
It's a minor bug that will get fixed shortly, calm down. Every OS has launch bugs that get tweaked after release.
The only issue I faced was on Sunday, my 6S Plus randomly turned off, then turned back on. Similar to the Effective Power bug.
I'm being sarcastic. I don't think this is a "-gate" situation, it's just funny to make up new -gate names.