Setting up new iPhone and transferred number from old phone. New phone appears stuck on "Cellular Setup Complete" with only the greyed out bar at the bottom of the screen and a spinning "thinking" icon. Next step??
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I have this same issue (stuck at hello and cannot reset or turn off). Were you able to resolve it?
Same here. It’s been 20 minutes for me, not sure what to do.
iPhone 16 Pro is stuck on "cellular setup complete" screen. had to reset and erase new iPhone again to make it work
Mine gets stuck on initial setup screens and won’t progess parental lock code and then after reboot started over and on the add a child. It lost progress prion to shutdown
Hi I was just wondering if you managed to resolve this? My dad just got the new iPhone for Xmas and I’m having the same issue as you did.
This is a terrible experience Apple. I’m stuck in a setup loop on a brand new $2000 phone. Oh how the mighty have fallen, I should return it and get a Samsung.
Like someone else said, after I restarted the new 16 Pro, my old 14 Pro didn't prompt the setup again until I restarted that as well.
Then for the thing where you use the camera to authenticate, it wouldn't recognize the animation on the new phone, so I had to do the manual authentication with the code.
Our carrier is apparently wanting to charge $60 for activation. Furious. Previous phones were transferred and activated at the Apple Store. It wasn’t offered. We picked up the phone and were sent on our way. At least the phone still works on my iPhone X
For me old device ( 11 pro max to 16 pro max ) did complete the transfer but new device is still stuck. Thinking should wait for some more time than restarting again.
interesting is I can receive a call on new device so transfer must be in progress.
i coul not set up to start a new iphone 16 promax. It has been over an hour never happen before with any other phone. Can not transfer the data and require to delete and start over and over. Even now it not even set up yet.
Are none of you guys actually taking a few minutes of your time to read through the comments on this? All asking the same question but the solution is in here multiple times. Get the phone into recovery mode plug into your Mac or pc and erase/re install iOS.
apple stores are going to be flooded because of this lol they better release another update or something haha
I was able to fix this by following this Reddit post. If you have a Mac, then follow these steps:
Hope this helps others and thanks to the folks who helped me.
Push up volume, down volume, then hold the power button to do a rapid restore. It has always worked for me anyway. Now if it's stuck with an Apple logo in the center of the screen or a small laptop in white it's most likely stuck in recovery mode, in that case hold down on the power button until it restarts itself.
Finally resolved after spending nearly 5 hours on this employing all the suggestions/tips in this thread.
Not sure what finally did it but id did involved restoring & updating while connected to my Mac Studio.
*Be prepared* to spend a lot of time on this.... best of luck.
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How to fix iPhone 16 Pro Max Stuck on Setup?
