iPhone Keeps Randomly Crashing, Rebooting, and Showing Extreme Battery Drain

Lawrence,

You don’t need me to tell you this, however you are correct. 14.2 GM has, supposedly, been released to developers only. It’s said that it was also released to beta iOS testers in the beta program BUT I can not find iOS 14.2 GM available anywhere to beta program participants. Thank you for keeping me honest... or well educated and informed. I appreciate that.

We’re not allowed to discuss betas here, but it isn’t labeled GM when it installs, it just increments the beta version number. Macrumors or a similar site called it a GM candidate, which Apple hasn’t publicly confirmed. If it really is it may drop Tuesday.

mistterius,

I absolutely agree with you. I completely understand your frustration. As I have posted in response to someone else, I come from the hard drive microcontroller firmware development arena. Our product functionality requirements are extremely high and testing is an intensely vast process and no firmware goes out with out a 100% score on every test. Yes, customers would instantaneously flee if our devices did not securely protect their data integrity. Apple iPhones are a very different animal that it took me years to adapt to its reality. Apple, in my opinion, is always producing so many different feature that are truly meaningful, always giving us more operations, abilities at a scale and rate that is actually hard to keep up with. The by product of which are bugs and that is the Apple realm of reality. But I absolutely understand your position and frustration.

Hi mistterius,

I don’t know much but I did know a new battery would do nothing at all to fix the problems you are having. Yes, this community is made up of regular users who have knowledge to share, advice to give, opinions to present, passion behind their theories regarding issues, etc... but mainly we are here to help and get help with iPhones. You have 100000 people, you could receive 100000 different opinions. It’s frustrating to have so many different points of views and opinions regarding one issue and that is what we do here. We present you with a number of viable options to pursue towards fixing your issue AND you get to root through them all till you decide which one you will attempt first. There are NO guarantees or warranties on this site, that with our help, your issues will be resolved. All we agree to do is TRY to help the best that we can. So, now it’s a fact that your battery WAS not the problem, you know that because many took the time to present their opinions and replacing the battery won as the next thing to do. So, what will you try now?

Hi sir. I have he same exact problem. My iphone 11 pro max with 100% battery capacity 100% charge randomly shuts down then after reboot, (sometimes multiple looping resets) shows 10%. After restarting it sometimes goes back to 100%. The shutdown occurs randomly. I dont think this is a battery issue because if you leave the phone locked while on flashlight, it just goes on bright for a day without restarting.

Guess what?! My iPhone 11 started crashing as soon as the iPhone 12 came out, LITWRALLY crashes almost daily and it’s less then 6 months old... it was crashing a week after I got it. Might have to bring it to Apple care at this point

I am having the exact problem as the original poster. I thought your testimony sounded promising, but then found out our beloved iPhone 7 does not support Dual SIM, so this carrier fix won't work. Le sigh.

Any other bright ideas? Would a new SIM do the trick??

14.2 GM is not available yet, but otherwise good advice.