iPhone 11 Pro Max Standby mode isn’t working.

iPhone 14 pro with IOS 17.0.3. After weeks of trying to get standby mode to just come on when the phone was on its side, I finally came up with a sequence that will allow that. Make sure the screen is in sleep mode, plug it in (this will wake up the phone), immediately rotate the phone and place it on the stand.

OK, now the phone is in standby mode, great. I place my book on the nightstand, and it turns off. During the night it all of a sudden shuts itself down. Lightly touching the sleep/wake button as suggested only takes a screen shot of the phone.

My gut feeling is, sometime during the night, the phone or an app updates or someone sends a message or email and that takes the phone out of standby mode. Not sure but tonight I will disable wifi and see if that works.

I really like the standby mode and would love for it to work but I am running out of options. I have purchased apple products for years because of their ability to work right out of the box; now that I am 80 years old, the box has just gotten too small. I don't need a lot of features but I do need some of them and I would like them to work.

Rant over. I will let you know if turning off wifi helps.

I hope they will fix it. This is clearly a bug, since it just stopped working without any obvious reason.

Hardly to understand how such a straight forward function can be so buggy.

I have the same issue. It worked really well for 3 Days with my iPhone 15 pro. Until it stopped going into standby at all. My device is not in Low Power mode, nor was the feature disabled.

After fiddling around quite a while, I was able to get it into this mode exactly one more time while having it connected to a cable, and moving and shaking it - but that has not been reproducible. So clearly a bug that prevents the phone from going into this mode, or having issues detecting the location.

This is just a wild guess, but I noticed the bug first after using "Focus Screens", adding the "Mars" Home Theme for the first time. And I also installed all the apps I need - nothing crazy, but a bit pro user stuff like "Actions" etc.

So it could be either a totally non-related bug, or have something to-do with other apps, or the Focus Modes.

I have an iPhone 13 and I was having trouble getting it to work too, but what I discovered is the engineers think they’re so very smart and made it only turn on if you put the phone down and sideways, so if you want to set up your widgets or just look at them you cannot hold your phone because it’s designed to immediately end standby mode. Someone probably thought it was a genius idea because who would want to use their features in any other way than the way they conceived us using them?! I mean they know some people lift their alarm clocks off the table right? I gotta say as we become more and more dependent on these devices the more frustrating it is to have software and hardware designed for inherent behaviors I do not wish to adopt and are not intuitive to me.

if you think this is a lot of btching for no reason tell the engineer who said no don’t make it wait for a swipe! Or a lock button, we can assume no one wants to use this feature while HOLDING their phone! How ridiculous!?

Amen to all of that!

I have been complaining about engineers being incapable of realizing that not everyone thinks in the, seemingly, very regimented ways they think for years.

OMG.

It is frustrating in the extreme to be forced to spend hours of my life trying to figure out how to use a device that is supposed to be intuitive. I’m pretty sure the brains of most software engineers (at Apple, anyway) are intuition-deserts.

I cannot count on both hands the number of angry tweets (pre-idiotic-x, of course), posts, chats with Apple’s Help people, and letters to Apple execs I have written on this exact topic.

I want a discount proportionate to the amount of my life I am forced to waste in order to effectively access and use EVERY SINGLE FEATURE of whatever device I buy from Apple, based on what my life is worth per hour, a figure I would happily provide.

To paraphrase Bill Burr- I paid them 100% of the money to be able to access 100% of the features.

This is exactly what makes me regret my decision to buy Apple products.

Preach, Sister. The 15 Pro Max is my first venture into the apple orchard and, based on the past few weeks will be my last. There are things I really like about the iPhone, but many things I miss that android offers. All the hype about apple being near perfect is just that. This phone is as glitchy as any Samsung I ever used.

I found this thread searching for a resolution to what appears to be a widespread issue. Standby mode works if I want the screen on all night or I tap the screen if I want to view the clock. Other than when initially turned on, it does not react to motion. Once you use that one shot, the gun is empty. I’ve exhausted every suggestion I can find.

I have survived without this feature, but I paid for it and it should work.

I find that the standby mode activates, but the information panels being displayed are blank. If I edit the screens and save, then the information populates, but next time Standby comes on, everything is blank again.

Well for what it’s worth I have an iPhone 15 pro max, and am placing it on an Apple MagSafe charger powered by an Apple USB C power block. Always on display is on.

The phone magnetically locks in and makes the thunk sound effect and the “charging” circle displays briefly.

But almost every time the phone stays in normal mode and won’t engage the standby display. Some times if u pull the phone off and reseat it then on the 3rd or 4th try it will engage standby display mode. , but when going to bed no one have the patience for that nonsense.

the phone is in landscape mode.

It’s on the charger and charging.

the screen is locked.

that state is dead simple to detect by any phone. The feature is bugged.

Lately, mine has worked...except when it doesn't. Standby always activates, but the screen may or may not "intelligently turn off." Sometimes it works until sometime in the middle of the night and sometimes it doesn't work until the middle of the night.

Over the past week standby has worked properly five of seven nights. On the two nights, I placed it on the charger while the TV was on and we were still moving around. That was the only variation. No idea why it would/should matter.

LarryBinVA wrote:

I have seen a number of articles advertising ‘standby mode’ on a mag-safe charger. This feature needs to work without work-arounds or hacks. The problems/bugs need to be resolved in a timely manner.

What do you mean by "work without work-arounds or hacks"? A magsafe charger is not required to get Standby to work. Standby will work with any wireless charger that allows the phone to charge in landscape mode. It will also work with a wired charger.

The unusual thing is that someone on this forum suggested putting the phone on ‘Sleep’ in settings and it worked.

The next day I tried it again and it didn’t.

i am lucky enough to own a 15 Pro Max and I have to say nightstand mode was one of the promising ‘little daily features’ I was looking forward to but the hit and miss nature of it is baffling.

Yeesh. Glad it’s not just me.

I’ve never once seen it

I wonder if I should disable it in settings because it may be wasting some ram having stuff loaded that doesn’t need to be loaded because I’m not sure if it’ll be useful for me anyway but I’ve never once seen it actually activate

I am using iphone xs and first of all many features from ios 17 are not working correctly all started working in the other update and now standby mode is not working it never worked in my iphone please help me i have original apple 20 w charger and type c cable plz tell me any solution by which it will work

Evlway wrote:

Why can’t the Centipad read?

If you mean "centipede", they can't read because they don't have eyes. Or brains. They are also not an Apple product.

If you mean something else, please explain.

This is a joke in reference to the Southpark episode about Apple. In this episode, Apple was developing a human/ipad device called the Human Centipad that required three humans linked together and connected to an iPad. Apple couldn’t get it to work because of the failure of Kyle (one of the humans) to read the agreements Apple has you agree to in order to update your devices. Steve Jobs kept yelling “why can’t the Centipad read?”