iPhone 14PRO Bricked overnight

THIS WORKED! Thanks for sharing. :)

iPhone 14 pro bricked overnight on MagSafe charger. Pressing Up then Down quickly and holding side button worked for me. Had to try a couple of times and one user was correct - the sequence has to be done quickly. I’d say it took under 2 seconds to press Up, Down, and hold side. Phone restarted in about 10 seconds and was 100% charged.

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

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.

Thank you ! This worked after doing several times AND being patient as it was necessary to hold the side powe button 20 or more seconds. Running iOS 16.4.1

This worked on my iPhone 13 that is on 16.4.1 (a). I had to follow the series of steps a couple times, but it worked like a charm. Really bizarre, but grateful to have saved myself a trip to the apple store!

Well, “try, try and try again” worked. For the nth time, I did the process with the keys and - voila! The phone (14 Pro) is back to life.

This worked for me on iPhone 14 that was bricked too. Thanks!

My iPhone 14 pro bricked itself, while I slept. Was charging and woke to a non-responsive phone

I find it hard to believe but, these simple instructions worked

Now, have to build confidence in my phone's reliability - disappointed, shocked & grateful

Thank you to the OP

Thank you for your post rstoomanyhobbies, same happened to me and you saved my day.

To give more info, I connected the iPhone to the charger with 57% bat at 1am.

Woke up alone at 6am and the cellphone was bricked.

815am I read your post and restart the iPhone, it has 80% bat (meaning that it only charged fron 57% to 80%, no more than an hour before bricking).

Has anyone had this issue- and tried this restart with no success?

I have done this process probably 60 times over 3 days and nothing.

I have booked an apple appointment for first available in 2 days, but curious if anyone else has been in this situation?

Thanks!

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

Great, glad to hear it. The force reset process is rather persnickety, but it will always work if you get the timing right.

The only thing that I might’ve done different is that the press on the volume buttons was very short. But as you said, it’s just a wee bit persnickety.