IOS 17 broke my phone

@ IdrisSeabright

I'm not the person you responded to but I find it odd that you would automatically assume that a prior comment was removed due to the use of profanity or similar TOS violation. To cite a parallel example, I own a MacBook Air M1 bought late last summer on clearance that developed hairline cracks where the upper half meets the lower half near the hinge. I had taken out the Apple Care +, which the Apple Store insisted on using stating that the issue — despite showing up within the first 90 days of ownership — was a consequence an "accident". (Anybody who knows how well I treat my stuff would find that laughable. I have never broken a single Apple product going back to the 1990s, to include a mint-condition iPod classic, and have never dropped and cracked a single screen on a cell phone either.) At any rate, I ended up stumbling across a Reddit discussion that linked to these forums concerning the issue with over 147 participants

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NewsView wrote:

I'm not the person you responded to but I find it odd that you would automatically assume profanity was involved.

I wasn't assuming anything. I saw the post in question before it was removed.

I too have been having problems all day thinking maybe I hadn’t paid a bill or something. WiFi has been acting up so I went to see if it was on. I can’t even open the WiFi button to turn it on to connect. Not only that but the same with Bluetooth. My camera doesn’t work and if I attempt to take a photo it won’t let me, it’ll be fuzzy then g black and freeze and camera will close on me. Says I have like 1 bar everywhere I go so I check with my provider and it’s fine, I have a iPhone 12 and it worked fine until today. I assumed it was the update because it told me it needed one. So many things have gone wrong at this point and I feel I shouldn’t have to buy a phone new phone just because mine decided to crap the bed with the update.

This is what exactly is happening to my iphone. This mess happened after the update to IOS7. i just have the gut feeling, until I searched for it online and found this community having the same issues. I had wasted a lot of time trying to solve this issue. Apple should fix this mess they created. So unfortunate, as I was on the road and badly needed data, sadly I cannot use it. The reason why we upgrade to better data is for emergency situations. Soooo disappointed now with Apple.

My iPhone 12 Pro Max that I’ve kept in great shape o updated it 17.2.1 now won’t connect to my phone network provider. Apple say it’s a chip that will now take almost £700 to fix. It was fine before the update. Absurd!

the update completely destroyed my phone. nothing ever loads, gps system completely ruined can’t use it on my phone, doesn’t connect to any king of wifi and if it does it completely slows down. the keyboard is messed up it won’t let me type or click on the message bar. i just bought my phone 14 pro in october of 2022 this should not be happening.

I'm so upset about what updating to ios17 has done to my iPhone 13 which previously was working perfectly well. Apps slow to a crawl and randomly crash. The camera app keeps crashing whenever I press the button to take a photo (one workaround that sometimes works is to open the camera app and then do a screenshot instead of taking a photo, then editing the screenshot to remove the camera buttons, but sometimes taking the screenshot crashes the app, too). Safari keeps giving me "this page reloaded because of an error" and "an error repeatedly occurred", when I almost never got these errors previously, and it has become frequently nonresponsive, requiring several presses of the "bookmarks" tab for example before they finally come up. The phone now every so often goes to a black screen with a little white spinner, and if I get a text while it is doing this the text never arrives. I also miss phone calls that come in. My daughter had similar problems when she upgraded to ios 17 and she was told at the Genius bar to do a factory reset but NOT to do a restore from backup and instead to reinstall her apps from scratch one by one. Which is obviously Apple's clever way of seemingly being helpful but getting the owner to say "no way" and upgrading their phone instead. And of course my daughter said "no way" and upgraded her phone instead. Which I will probably have to do fairly soon because of all the issues I am now having following the upgrade. I guess you can see why Apple does this; millions of people enjoying their stable phones with ios 16 is less profitable for them, after all, than forcing them to upgrade by updating the ios to something that will ruin their experience.

No, nothing worked for me. The only thing I miss is not being able to take screen shots with the sidebar button that no longer works after the last update. I might have to do a reset, but I know that will lead to a whole mess of trouble with the phone, not sure what to do.

couldnt be more frustrated -- my phone has been working completely fine until I installed this update yesterday. now, my apps won't work, they keep closing out & now it's telling me my "battery is damaged"... yet it was fine before this update. ridiclous. I also have 70,000+ photos/videos, theres no way I'm restoring my phone, it will take multiple days. who greenlighted this update..? it was obviously nowhere near ready.

iOS 17 broke my phone. (iPhone 15 pro max)

I woke up to the notification stating that I had the update. Thinking nothing of it I updated it while I went to take a shower. When I got back my phone was unresponsive to touch screen. Brought it to apple and they said the only way was to reset it. I was unable to use my iCloud backup and ended up loosing everything.

Sounds strange, but after iOS 17.3 update, my XS MAX kept shutting off and would not go on standby, but shut off. Black screen and white apple over and over. When it would work, big apps would shut it down.

Today I accidentally left my cell in a hot truck at work. It did not display the temperature warning, but it was hot. Once it cooled, surprisingly, my phone started working correctly again! I ain’t complaining, but what the heck! Weird! I’m just glad it works again.

Overheat your phone a little bit and see what happens once you cool it down…

iPhone software update 17.5.1 has started to drain my battery so fast, before the update, it was fine, now it runs down so quick, twice or three times as fast as what it used to.

Is this one of their sabatage ways to make you upgrade phones? I wouldn’t put it past them.

haven104 wrote:

My iPhone got updated and I don’t know what to do

Based on the information you've provided, I suggest you do what most of us do when our phones are updated: We continue to use them as before.

I’ve tried updating but it won’t update. After reading all these comments, I rather not update and keep on with the same version I’m using. Apple better get they shizzle together!

Still not getting my phone calls from friends or family but can get calls from people who are cold callers and scammers.

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