iOS 18 Control Center and Lock Screen Bug

There is a super frustrating issue after I updated to iOS 18 today (iPhone 15 Pro Max)


I can’t customize my control center or Lock Screen without my phone crashing—removing a button seems to work but trying to add one immediately makes the screen black, give a white spinning wheel, and then brings me back to the Lock Screen again. It happens every time and I’m unable to customize anything!


I’ve seen other people who updated having this issue today as well but as of yet no solutions/fixes. Please help!


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iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 16, 2024 9:20 PM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2024 3:57 PM

I truly can't believe it but... this fixed it for me too. I changed my region to another English speaking region (British Virgin Islands) and then right back to the United States and now I can change the buttons! It's very slow/laggy but at least it is working!


Thank you! Hopefully Apple releases a proper fix for this bug in the next version or in a hot fix before 18.1.

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Sep 18, 2024 7:02 AM in response to ernst157

ernst157 wrote:

If possible, stick with iOS 17.7 until iOS 18.6.. the early versions of the new iOS has always bound to have tons of bugs. Early adopters are Apple’s Guinea pigs to smooth out the new iOS version.

The vast majority of people have no problems with the dot zero release. Of the people who do have issues, a significant percentage turn out to be not understanding the changes or what they do.


Based on what we're seeing in the forums (and the trades) so far, this release has no major issues and a lower than usual number of people who don't understand how new features work.

Sep 18, 2024 8:20 AM in response to Braybray_1027

Braybray_1027 wrote:

It won’t even allow me to even turn my phone off in the control center

That's not, to the best of my knowledge, a feature that has ever been offered in Control Center.


or the action button won’t work either when I try to scroll through my text messages on a specific person or other people. It is a delayed reaction.

What does the action button have to do with text messages? I don't see any options related to text messaging in Settings>Action Button.

Sep 18, 2024 3:43 PM in response to xela90

I update to ios18 but when I hang up from a call its on the Recents call log & the screen literally will not shut off or lock! I sat & watched to see will the screen lock & never did! I have a habbit of hanging up the phone & just setting the phone down bc I know it will lock but with this new update it DO NOT, You guys need to all tey to see if your having the same issue please! Thank


so just call to your call recents screen & see if it will lock the screen

Sep 18, 2024 9:18 PM in response to xela90

has Anyone else noticed the sound quality of the AirPods after downloading iOS 18? The sound got low and muffled. Firstly I thought it might be my AirPods working strangely and bought new pair which is also working strangely. The sound quality is not as good as it used to be, and while playing battle royal games I also noticed that the footsteps of other players are not clear and can’t hear anything as I used to before downloading the update iOS 18 on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. If anyone knows what might have been the issue, please let me know because I tried few things like reseting all my settings, reseting AirPods, restarted phone couple times, downloaded few apps again where I was facing issues, etc. but it is still the same.

Sep 19, 2024 7:56 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

If you want to say anything about statistics, you wanna make sure you brought the data instead of just claims.


As someone who’s tech savvy such as myself (I am a software engineer) who use a wide variety of OSes from linux from multiple distros, macOS, windows, iOS even freaking Symbian and BB Os back then.. I can say that iOS is by far the worst performing OS that there is in the world today. So when you say, the vast majority of people don’t have an issue.. are you sure you’re not using the phone just for making / receiving phone calls and browsing???

Sep 20, 2024 12:21 AM in response to xela90

Same for me 😩 also the Lock Screen cans be updated, also if I try to change the action button in control menu , the “add a control menu’ “ make my phone crash.

I try to restart several times and I try to change my region language but nothing, the bus it’s still there 😤😤😤 I’m using a phone without can change nothing on my control center or Lock Screen buttons.


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