IOS 17 broke my phone

Update; Thursday 4/1/2024!

after the update on my iPhone I had to take up it to Apple as my data could not work at all.

I must admit they did an amazing job, it turns out my iphone was just not working and had to be replaced on the inside of course, after that everything was back to normal. Im not sure whether this update messed up my iPhone 14 Pro Mac but Apple in White City, London UK, were splendid. A***** treatment.

My iphone broke today due to the update. It just shut off and started tweaking. Took it to apple tonight and the associate let me know it is fried. I have a backup phone and just transferred the sim. Not the best situation but least I have a backup.

iPhone 11 pro user here!

Last night, my phone prompted me to update to the latest iOS 17.4. What should have been a fairly simple process absolutely ruined my evening.

My phone told me halfway through the update that I needed to connect it to a computer to finish updating. No big deal, but it continued to crash mid way during the forced update. I was on with Apple support during the duration of this process, and they advised me to restore it as a last resort. Which I did, and it STILL would not follow through with finishing the update.

Now, all my phone does is flash the Apple symbol on & off.

The consensus from the Apple Support team was that something internal was wrong with my phone, and I needed to send it in for repair. This leads me to believe something malfunctioned during this update to my "older" phone. This update literally malfunctioned mid update and has disrupted something internally for my phone to no longer work

my phone has been literally slowed down and unusable since I uploaded iOS 17!! I am very unhappy as I cannot use. Certain apps and a brand new phone is now ruined !!

Hey all, I turned off both my TotalAV vpn and the iPhone one pluse the connect on demand link in TotalAV and it fixed the issue with latest update 🙏🏿

This is exactly what’s happening to me. I have an iPhone 11, not even 3 years old. Mint condition, I keep in protective cases like lifeproof etc etc. after the update to 17 it’s not working. This morning I had to try and get a message out on an old iPad to my husband that I had no phone. Black screen, glitching on and off, won’t even let me reset or restart anything. The response time is way behind as well. It reacts 30 seconds after it should, if at all. This new update has ruined my phone and I can’t afford a new one. I’ve had Apple pretty much since the Dawn of time but this makes me consider not staying with Apple anymore.

Since I updated my iPhone 14 pro max to IOS17 last week it has ruined my mobile data I simply cannot use it and it says ''you need an update, the phone is already up to DATE!!!!!!!!!!

I am unable to do ANYTHING, PLEASE do not update, I have an appointment to try to fix this issue. Paying SO much money for WHAT?????? This is not good Apple, it simply not good at atll.

I have all the problems listed in these comments and more! I really believe that the update contained bugs that Apple is not going to fix so we are more inclined to purchase the new 15 where you have to buy new accessories and increases their profits. The deals right now are not good unless you open up a new line. We bought a 15 pro for a family member and it was nothing but trouble from the beginning of the sale to turning the old phone in. I’d rather just use my phone for simple things and reduce my time on it anyways! And now there is trouble submitting on this forum.

Thanks for the quick reply! I don't have a Mac unfortunately but did try the process on my PC to no avail. Also found another string saying that 17 caused issues with the SIM card so I swapped with my phone, still no luck. I don't understand (well, actually I think I do understand...) why they don't allow back-installation of older revisions. Would be so simple to just reinstall the prior iOS over 17 and turn off automatic updates. But that would undoubtedly cause a hit to their replacement revenue, followed by a fat hit to their stock price, so that's not going to happen...

That ALSO happened on my son's iPhone 11 that he updated. He was asking me why all of the members in our family showed his sister's name (including his)! Online support said it was related to the names in his contacts. I would check that for you and tell you if it actually fixed the issue, but the phone is no longer working after the "Genius" bar guys installed 17.2 today

My phone quit working after the lates update, screen went black and then streaky lines..... then black. I reset it several times unusable. Took it in for repair they said screen was bad, then said projector was bad. They wanted to much for projector and replaced the screen IPhone 12 jus a little over a year old... no warranty. No face scan anymore. the phone updated today now keeps shutting off in the middle of task. so ios 17 has been nothing but a money making plan.. takes phones out of service....They should replace phones effected by there updates....there are lots and lots of people out there this has effected.

Everything with iOS 17 is out of control & nothing but constant issues needing to be addressed… I don’t know how Apple will handle these, but I feel like this should be one of the issues that needs to be resolved before people start to disappear from their phones.

****** off had 13 mini for a year. Update has stuffed my phone I can’t receive calls from my family. My elderly father needs to be able to contact me but can’t as keeps going straight to voicemail. My son can’t contact me so only phones house phone now which is not ideal if I’m not at home. This will be the last iPhone I ever purchase 😡🤬😡

Same thing happened to my iPhone 12 Pro when I updated from ios16 to ios17 over the Christmas break.

Surprise surprise I was now stuck in a different state than my home state for the holidays with a phone that logged out of every saved device and multiple broken apps that refused to open or load.

ridiculous

Weenell88 wrote:

Oh dear apple didn’t like my last post so deleted it. Still not getting my phone calls from friends or family but can get calls from people who are cold callers and scammers. NO IM NOT BUYING YOUR NEW PHONE !!!! You killed my one year old phone with your update and also my daughter’s phone. What part of my last post did you not like?

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