Understood all the reasoning you gave.
I have had this issue with iPhone 13 pro max since i purchased it for it to just hang at the bootup.
I was persistent and escalated the case to senior advisor and she followed up with me for three months February 2022 to May 202 , after four Diagnostic and analytics shared with Apple Engineers and almost weekly calls and shared screen sessions without any resolution, it slipped out of her that there was a know issues on IOS that it was showing not enough space on the device. It was apparently fixed on most devices but for some unknow reasons it did not fix all the iphones out there.
I document each of the call with the advisors because not all document information as accurately.
After I came back home on the 18th after being told by GENIOUS Bar Shana and Store manager Ellen. I called apple support and spoke with Simon after doing the troubleshooting one more time, He told me to take the phone to the apple store to have my phone exchanged over the counter, an appointment was made for yesterday Morning at my local apple store.
upon arriving there i was asked to troubleshoot again with a genius bar advisor because " NEITHER THE GENIUS BAR ADVISOR FROM THE SAME STORE NOR SHANA, ELLEN NOR SIMON AT THE APPLE SUPPORT TEAM" documented any steps they did to authorize the exchange.
The store wanted to keep doing the reformat of the store and not to restrore from the backup.
"WHAT APPLE EXPECTS US TO JUST LOOSE OUR DATA "
IF SO THEN THEY SHOULD STOP SELLING PHONES WITH HIGHER STORAGE CAPACITY.
AS SHANA CLEARLY INFORMED THAT I SHOULD USE MORE THAN 50% OF MY PPHONES 512 GB HARDWARE CAPACITY NOR SHOULD I USE MORE THAN 75% OF MY 2TB CAPACITY OF MY PAID SUBSCRIPTION ICLOUD SERVICE, IN ORDER FOR ME NOT TO FACE SAME PROBLEM !!!!!!!!
"Shana went as far as saying if I am not happy with apple devices performance I should move over to non apple device."
YESTERDAY AT THE STORE I MET WITH A DIFFERENT STORE MANAGER LIN WHO WANTED ME TO TAKE MY PHONE BACK HOME AND CALL APPLE SUPPORT OR APPLECARE SUPPORT TO GET THE AUTHORIZATION.
SO I CALLED FROM THE STORE USING A DIFFRENT PHONE AND DOCUMENTED THE CALL. NOW ALL OF SUDDEN THE APPLE SUPPORT COULD follow the notes and wallah even the genius at the store level could SEE ALL THE NOTES!!!
In my opinion, these advisors are trained to keep finding any reason to point fingers at a third party issue.
Now as I had AppleCare support on the phone while I was in the apple store, it took everyone's possibility of giving excuse and not fixing the issue.
Now AppleCare support team gave authorization number to the store for replacement of the device since she could see all the notes by everyone.
During the conversation with the AppleCare support it came out that the store was reluctant to do the exchange so as to keeping their CS Exchange (Device) ratio Low!!!!
All of this is after getting lame excuses and unproven reasons for reformatting my phone one more time.
I bought a new phone (iphone13) on June 18th to prove that the restore from backup is working on new phone but not working on the current 13 Pro Max.
and to answer your comment about ONLY FEW NUMBER OF PEOPLE REPORTING THIS.
CAN YOU TRELL ME HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN BUY $2500 iPHONE AGAIN AFTER PAYING $2500 FOR ORIGINAL iPHONE PURCHASE?? ( that is the real reason of few about 20 people here.
Most customers are sent home after formatting their phones (fact of how Apple is handling issues today )!!!
only a few persistent ones come and document it on forums like this.
At the least the apple staff needs training in documenting and resolving the issues instead of pointing fingers to third party and or not document the issues.