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Some iPhone 6s Owners Seeing Their Phones Randomly Shut Off
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If locked and sat on the coffee table on a cool English morning is too taxing then Apple may want to get new engineers!
Kinda agree with this. My 6S+ and wife's 6+ don't have issues, so far, since the upgrade to 9.0.2 and 9.0.1, respectively (knock on wood)
But, I doubt it's related to FB.
If you have to hard reset the device to turn it back on, it's software related.
If it was hardware, then the device would actually turn off and a simple power button press would turn it back on....
If it was hardware, then the device would actually turn off and a simple power button press would turn it back on....
My 6 with 9.0/9.0.1/9.0.2 hasn't done this at all. My wife's 5s with 9.0/9.0.1 hasn't either. On the other hand, I can remember one time within the past year that my wife's 5s (with iOS 8) has crashed and needed a hard reboot to recover.
The heat issue is explainable: if your phone crashes and doesn't respond to the sleep/wake or home buttons, then it's still running and probably getting hot.
So, I have a question for everybody here who has seen this issue: how often is this happening to you? Is it happening repeatedly or just once? If just once, I can't imagine why this is a thing.
The heat issue is explainable: if your phone crashes and doesn't respond to the sleep/wake or home buttons, then it's still running and probably getting hot.
So, I have a question for everybody here who has seen this issue: how often is this happening to you? Is it happening repeatedly or just once? If just once, I can't imagine why this is a thing.
If you're on a 9.1 beta I truly hope you're reporting the issue, so that Apple engineers will have logs to pore over and try to squash the bug before it goes into production.
No, but iOS 9 is not buggier than 8 was upon release.
Y'all just have short memories.
Apple's way of saying stop taking selfies and checking your texts and associate with people. I'm not mad at this..
I've had this happen with my watch a couple of times while opening an app . . . with iOS9 installed on my phone. But . . . not the place to start a watch thread.
I'm pretty sure it's not that simple.
Their issues might be increased, but there are numerous factors that come into play. First of all, the devices and software are much more complicated than they were in the past. Second, there are far, far more people using Apple devices than in the past. When you have 35 million products in wild you will see a certain number of issues crop up. When you have upwards of a billion devices in the wild you will see more issues.
Lastly, I do believe that all of this is magnified by the fact that Apple pretty much exists in an aquarium these days. Tim Cook and Jony Ive can't fart without the media reporting on it. Whenever a new product is released a whole herd of click baiters rush out to "test" (read abuse) the device very publicly, and "news" outlets starved for advertising dollars scramble to get the words, Apple, iPhone, iWatch, etc. into headlines on their websites. This is not swipe at MacRumors, BTW. They've been reporting responsibly on all things Apple for many years, before most of the world cared.
Another thing to keep in mind is that this might actually be related to a non-Apple App on the phone. Whenever a new OS is released there are inevitably going to be some apps that have bugs in them, and those apps can cause hanging processes, memory leaks, etc. that will appear to be a systemic issue. I'm confident that this will be a non-issue very shortly. I believe it's software/OS related, and if it's happening to enough people to be reported Apple's engineers will have the bug squashed before long.
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It's happening to my iPhone 6S Plus every night now. Plug it in at night wake up in the morning and the phone is unresponsive. Have to hard reset the phone to come back on.
Maybe because that's not true. Never seen lag or slowdowns after a software update on my iDevices
What ? Aluminum dissipates heat ...
I don't know about Facebook, since I'm not using it ....
Probably, but not related to iOS 9 only, since not everyone are experiencing this...
Two years for us Europeans...
Stop this paranoia please ! We are speaking also about iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 and others....
Correct. The whining was strong at the time of iOS 8 release....
Today iOS 8 was the "perfect iOS "
Really? That is not my experience. Updating my iPad 2 to iOS 8 was the death knell for my totally clean iPad 2 i.e. nothing kept on the device apart from the generic apps. Slowed it down to the point I could have smashed it (32 gig Wifi only).
As a result I sold the device on and used the cash to purchase an Xperia tablet - runs like a dream. With Sony, 'everything just works'.
What you say makes perfect sense.
But, as others here will tell you, the problem is not Apple.
The problem is YOU.
I just experienced it now. My 6s suddenly shutdown and when i tried to press the power and home buttom it turned on.
Understood, but an iPad 2 is very old hardware ... I wouldn't have it updated to iOS 8 since the beginningReally? That is not my experience. Updating my iPad 2 to iOS 8 was the death knell for my totally clean iPad 2 i.e. nothing kept on the device apart from the generic apps. Slowed it down to the point I could have smashed it (32 gig Wifi only).
As a result I sold the device on and used the cash to purchase an Xperia tablet - runs like a dream. With Sony, 'everything just works'.
You want Tim gone? Better start with yourself by refusing to buy Apple products so you don't contribute to their coffers. Then, good luck convincing the millions of happy owners of Apple products that they're actually not happy with their products, and Tim Cook is the reason for that.
I wish you the best. It's a tough task, but tenacity knows no bounds.