Wallpaper disappears

After the upgrade to ios 16.1.1 (20B101) wallpaper has started disappearing; my iphone 11 just shows black screen with all tiles for apps. Same is true for library screen too.

Restart phone, original wallpaper temporarily appears, and within minutes disappears leaving dark background
settings - wallpaper seems to indicate current wallpaper as the correct one, however it is not showing on the real screen (vs implied settings)
from time to time, especially on calls, screen turns black and nothing can be done to retrieve the phone ui or see numbers or call info; it is as if phone is locked with a call ongoing in the background.

I sincerely hope that Apple is not forcing us to ditch iphone 11 and upgrade to a newer one.

iPhone 11

Posted on Nov 16, 2022 4:09 PM

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AnilHS71 Author

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Posted on Nov 17, 2022 2:14 PM

OK… Thanks to Liz from Apple Support, when everything else failed, a hard reset resolved it for me. She was equally baffled to see this behavior. Phew!

Steps:

Lock iphone 11
press up volume
press down volume
hold power button until you see Apple logo (when it restarts)

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