iPhone 12 Pro freezing again and again after iOS 16.1.1 update

ITS WORKING NOW!!! Thank you so much for your advice (:

I was able to get my phone running the same, if anything even faster!! All I did was back up all my photos, messages and etc to an iCloud. At first I didn’t have enough storage, so I swallowed my pride and bought extra iCloud storage for $4 month. I realized how useful it is tbh, you’re able to have all your messages and photos and apps all restored!! Next I backup up my phone and sync’d all the photos. Once that was done, I did a factory hard reset on my phone. (you can also back up on iTunes via your Mac book if you don’t want to pay for iCloud). Once I hard reset my phone, I logged back in iCloud and everything was restored on my phone. I have NOT seen any glitching, resetting or restarting issues, and it has been over 4 days now! Everything seems perfect, fingers crossed it stays the same (:

I will give you guys another update down the line!!

Thank you again for the advice @mandi247!

I tried every option I saw on the internet, hard reset, updated all apps, deleted recently downloaded apps, reset settings etc… I even updated the phone using iTunes but still the problem persists. The last option is to factory reset the phone, which I can’t afford to do now as I have no backup means for my very heavy yet important files. I’m so pained right now!

Updated to 16.2 and this is still happening. It’s actually very dangerous, it’s happened to me on the highway a few times now while I’m using maps and I have to hard reset my phone, which takes my attention off the road. Apple need to fix this immediately as it will cause traffic accidents.

Same, I'm using an iPhone 8 plus. The phone never had any issues like that, wasn't even very slow considering its age. Soon as I updated to 16.1.2, now it freezes and crashes 5 - 20 minutes after the previous crash. I tried clearing all settings, didn't help. I tried updating all my applications, nothing. I tried hard resetting it, still freezes. I also tried backing it up but it would crash before it would finish.

I started to experience crashing with my phone after 15 minutes. The wheel pops up and freezes and then it's back to the lock screen. Knowing I only had a 15-minute window or so I had to quickly (once it crashed and started up again) BACKUP my phone to my MacBook with a lighting cable wire. When in finder I clicked my iPhone and within the Backups tab I put it to "Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac" and also hit "encrypt local backup". Again knowing that time is an issue here, I had to severely delete a lot of apps and photos I do not need to make the backup a lot faster and go below the 15-minute timeframe. As it was all backed up successfully. I had to factory reset my iPhone. And when prompted to the "backup page" I click the computer tab to backup. Plugged it back into my computer and let the backup process begin. It's now going beyond the 15 minutes at this time and has not restarted itself. Also to note I did try everything listed from a hard reset, to reset settings, etc, but nothing worked until I had to fully erase everything once backed up. I can now use my phone as normal with all my apps messages and everything still here, can even install a update too.

Even I am facing the same problem for my 12maxpro. Any solution? even I have done everything to fix but same problem. @apple --anyone having the solution?? after paying the huge amount for iPhone, we are getting this kind of stupid service from apple..

i have an iPhone 12 Pro Max, I started experiencing the freezes immediately after updating to iOS 16.1.2. The phone literally freezes after every 20 mins.

That is exactly what mine is doing, iPhone 12 Pro Max freezes and turns off every 20mins.

please reply to this message if you get this fixed.

Hi, thanks for sharing this. Can you please update us, is your iPhone still working fine?

Hi Sameer,

did you find a solution yet?

My phone has been perfect as though it was brand new and everything is back to normal as it was before!