iPhone 14PRO Bricked overnight

Phone working fine on charger in bed, woke up next morning to black screen and totally unresponsive. Tried with it on power cable, off, etc. Finally found an article for a iPhone 12 and this worked to wake it up. Concerning to have the same issue continuing from 2 generations ago.


Solution: (1) Try and Force Restart your iPhone EXACTLY as shown below and see whether that resolves the issue:

  • Press and quickly release Volume UP button
  • Press and quickly release Volume DOWN button
  • Press and Hold the SIDE button until an Apple logo appears and then release the Side button (Can take up to 20 seconds. (DO NOT release Side Button when invited to Slide Power OFF). 


iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16

Posted on Apr 5, 2023 5:11 AM

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Apr 30, 2023 8:48 AM in response to ahahto

ahahto wrote:

Oh thank you so much for sharing the solve! Super odd thing to happen.

Not in the slightest odd. While it is called an iPhone, it is actually a very powerful pocket-sized computer that can incidentally make phone calls. And like all computers, it will crash occasionally, and that’s what happened. To minimize the probability of that happening it may pay to restart it occasionally→Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

May 3, 2023 2:27 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

After the RSR SW update 16.4.1(a) I left my phone on the charger overnight as usual and it is solidly bricked this morning.

Tried the “volume up/down press followed by long press of the power key (20 seconds plus)” multiple times and it is still bricked.

Also tried charging (again) just in case…. Followed by the above process, and no luck.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

May 3, 2023 2:32 PM in response to monty III

Follow these instructions EXACTLY, don’t cut any corners. If doing a forced reset correctly does not resolve the problem your phone’s hardware has failed; see→iPhone Repair & Service - Apple Support


  • Press and quickly release VOLUME UP


     then

  • Press and quickly release VOLUME DOWN


     then

  • Hold the SIDE button until an Apple logo appears (15-30 seconds), ignoring "slide to power off" if it appears


The operative word here is QUICKLY; and try it a couple of times, the timing is a little tricky.


May 8, 2023 8:29 AM in response to britnam

While it is called an iPhone, it is actually a very powerful pocket-sized computer that can incidentally make phone calls. And like all computers, it will crash occasionally, and that’s what happened. To minimize the probability of that happening it may pay to restart it occasionally→Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


This is nothing new; iPhones have always crashed occasionally. However, “occasionally” has become more frequent. As developers understand, all software has bugs all the time; there are probably thousands of bugs in a released version of iOS. So they try to fix the bugs that cause the most inconvenience. But as you add features, those features will also have bugs, thus increasing the number of bugs overall. When an operating system encounters a bug that it can’t recover from it will shut down to prevent any further damage that the bug might cause. That results in the famous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows, and a frozen iPhone. For some reason that isn’t clear to me a forced shutdown is very rare in MacOS, even though it is very similar to iOS in structure.


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