My iPhone 14 Pro Max won't turn on

If your iPhone won't turn on or is frozen - Apple Support

I just experienced this myself. Mine turned back on after the volume up-down-hold power button. Took about 10 seconds for me. Never seen this before either.

Same experience as @queenie213. What finally worked for me was to hold the side button well over a minute. Apple logo finally appeared. Now all is well.

Thanks for the YouTube link. The sequential button pushing reactivated my phone: volume up, then volume down, then an extended side button push (give it up to a minute). What a weird way to get things working again.

I 've had my 14 pro max for one week and this happened this morning when I woke up. It took several tries, but the force restart steps did finally work. I went immediately to the system update in settings and am downloading the 16.3.1 update as I am writing this. Hopefully this issue will not happen again.

This is how it was for me as well. My iPhone 14 pro is exactly one week old. It has never charged to 100%. I woke up to a black screen and tried several chargers before seeing this forum. I tried 4 times and it worked on the 5th. But it had a 100% charge after this! So weird! And a basically brand new phone!

Experienced this same issue this morning. Woke up to a blacked out phone. Found this forum & kept trying to get it to turn on. I did it (volume +/- and power combination) about 6 times before it finally turned on. When it did, my battery was at 79%.

I know this post is 6 months old but clearly this is still working to wake up the phone.

Had the same problem. Charged it right before going to sleep, I woke up today to NO alarm. my phone was unresponsive and the screen was completely black. thought my charger was the problem so I charged another device and it charged perfectly. did the +/- trick maybe three times until it finally worked and generated the apple logo. hope it doesn't happen again.

Yes, holding in the button for a minute helped and now my phone is on 😊

Again, follow this procedure:

If your iPhone won't turn on or is frozen - Apple Support

Same thing happened to me. It went dead on change of month from Feb to Mar- was dead in the morning.

I did the volume up, volume down, hold power button longer than a minute.

On the fourth attempt it finally powered on. Thank you forum. :-)

Pressing the vol. up -> vol. down -> power button worked for me but I had to do it 4 times before the lockscreen showed up after seeing the apple logo. Would love to know why this happened / what I can do to prevent it from happening again? I have an iphone 14 pro max and I got it during Christmas of '22...

I woke up to the same $1200 paper weight… black screen that refused to turn on even though I could hear the sounds when I pressed the power button. Thankfully a quick YouTube search on my PlayStation told me to press volume up, volume down, then repeatedly tap the power button (up to 40x) until it turned back on. I currently have a family member in the hospital for a very serious condition, I sure hope nobody tried calling me about him in the past 6+ hours I was asleep. Do better Apple, this is unacceptable. If it continues I might finally switch. I get iPhone because they used to be the best, but seems like those days are gone.

Mine finally decided to turn back on. Try the volume up and volume down and hold start button nonstop for at least a minute.

Thank you!!! I wasn't holding the button long enough. Was beginning to panic that I'd have to visit the apple store.