MacBook Pro bricked after failed Big Sur update 😵 ⚰️

11.01 bricked my 2016 13" MBP with function keys. Initially, I could get into recovery with the various resets but now nothing. An external monitor doesn't work. It seems the 2016 i/o board isn't comparable to the 2013-14 i/o board. Apple support said repairs would be at my expense.

13" MBPr, Late 2013, 16 GB Ram, 500GB SSD. No peripherals connected. So, here is a summary of my 11.0.1 experience:

• Installed 11.0.1 just a day or two after release. All was fine, at first. As about 4 or 5 days went by the beach balling became more frequent and with shorter time intervals between events and freezes until I could only boot to a black screen.
• Tried all resets mentioned here and anything else. Went through 2 calls will Apple Support.
• Tried to reinstall the OS from the web. Also tried reinstall backup from an external HD.
• I did a disk repair/diagnostic and found out I only had about 3 GB of SSD total causing any installation of an OS or backup to fail. What?
• Made an appointment with the Genius Bar and they ran their ethernet plug-in diagnostics and said my SSD was shot giving me the 3 GB reading.
• So, I asked how that could happen by just upgrading an OS and he said when it installed the OS it "stressed" (his word, not mine) the SSD. They would take it in and try to wipe the SSD clean and re-install the Catalina but the SSD may have to be replaced.
• Well, you guessed it, the SSD was replaced ($399 + $79 "hardware charge") and Catalina was installed.
• I have no intention of putting Big Sur on this MBP anytime soon. Interestingly, when I got my MBP back home I looked to see if an update was available and it came back saying my Catalina was up to date and no upgrade was available. Now that 11.1 is available it is telling me an update is available. No thanks!

I looked up some background on the SSD technology. They have a limited number of read/write cycles and the average life is about 10 years. Mine was 7 years. I always had at least 200 GB or more "free" over the years and suppossedly if individual cells go bad the memory repairs itself by blocking off the bad cells and moving the data to "good" memory locations.

So, my question for the collective braintrust here: Is it possible that the Big Sur installation with all the manipulation and reconfiguring of the SSD memory could cause 497 GB of SSD to fail prematurely?

Imac 2019 completely bricked by attempted update to Big Sur. No startup keys combinations working so far - just black screen. Any luck guys?

Have you tried this???? found it while trying to resolve my own issues with Big Sur

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210905

Tried all of this as described in above post, but did not help.

I tried, but it did not change the I/o board damage caused by Big Sur for me.

I also had an SD Card inserted. Used a Nifty drive with an miniSD for the last 6 years and never removed it.

I had no SD card inserted.

Try command option R after resetting SMC. It may take a few smc resets before it works. Hope it works for you.

Try turning the power off at the wall then back on. Worked on my late 2019 iMac i9. The instal carried on with 29 minutes to go and finished fine.

Kim

Exactly, the update was corrupted my MacBook pro mid 2014. And time, I had to spend nearly $ 250 to fix it! Damage!

Agree. Apple should find a solution for all their loyal customers.

I had this same experience, but with MBP late 2018! Still waiting for repair Feedback, but I just can not accept hardware faillure due to software upgrade is not Apple responsability! Really!?

Thanks for info JCRH99!

Please let us know how they handled this.