iPhone 11 Pro stuck in a boot loop after iOS 17.4 update

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 update literally malfunctioned mid-update and has disrupted something internally for my phone to no longer work.

Has this happened to anyone else?

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