iPhone 16 Pro Freezes and Restarts

I have similar issues, restore took 24 hour !!! As it kept freezing and rebooting. Finally setup and charged over night and this morning two freezes and reboots before I could type this. However navigation very slow like its about to freeze and reboot any minutes.

I had the same issue. Ironically I was on a call with Apple Support when all of a sudden my phone just disconnected and restarted for no apparent reason. Support called back and I remarked that this is concerning seeing as how I just got my new iPhone 16 Plus and am having these issues. Not a happy camper Apple! Also having app freezing too. Maybe I should have kept my 12?

Same issues here. Returned my 16 Pro after upgrading from a 13 Pro. My first phone was unusable, might have had hardware issues. Extremely hot in the morning, alarm clock not going off, camera app would never open, multiple crashes per day, unusable in general. Apple support noticed issues after remote diagnostics, after which I got a replacement. This newer 16 Pro seems to be performing much better, but has the same kinds of issues to a less severe degree. It still crashes at least once a day, and a restart seems to temporarily fix the issues. I also restored from iCloud and have noticed that some apps don't redownload after restoring, so might be an issue with iCloud restores. My home is filled with Apple devices, so I feel really disappointed. Very unlike Apple to have a launch this bad.

I have not had any further issues since updating to 18.0.1. I discovered that the Wireguard VPN app crashed my phone and also caused massive issues with the Network Settings and Cellular bars. It causes settings to crash and restart. There are likely some apps that are misbehaving as well as things that are now addressed with the newest OS 18.0.1 patch. Wireguard still misbehaves and cannnot be installed on 18.0.1. Open VPN has no issues. If you get the black screen with a reset circle when you run an app and things are weird, you found the misbehaving app. Wireguard app also causes crashes on iPad OS 18.0.1.

Everything is working perfectly after I reset my replacement phone to factory settings and set it up as a new phone rather than restoring from iCloud backup. Since everything is synced to iCloud anyways and most things work cloud-based, I really haven't had any issues or felt like I missed anything. On the contrary, my phone has been working perfectly without any issues whatsoever. Must be some sort of issue with iCloud Backups. Very happy to have found a solution to this incredibly annoying issue.

I had also bought a iphone 16 base model back in September and i have having the same issue of phone randomly crashing and restarting I guess its a software issue as after I had updated to ios 18.01 this has been happening

Have been having these same issue here! Only had to phone for less than 24 hours before the issues started.

Half the time when I open my camera app once I take the picture it freezes goes to a black screen and then crashes. Now that it’s been over a week it’s crashing with other apps. I’ve also notice that when it’s in its crashing mode it’s draining the battery like crazy.

I came on here this morning to see if anyone else was having issues due to one I had this morning. My phone was fully charged and in a span of 10 minutes it dropped down to 89%.

Very frustrating for a brand new phone.

If you run an app and the phone gives you a black screen with an animated restart circle, you will need to uninstall the app and Force restart the phone. Force restart iPhone - Apple Support

Same exact issue. I have reset my device twice. Was fine for about 12 hrs now the freezing and crashing is back

I have been facing the same with my 16 pro. Mine started with the photos app. Also, photos that I capture are not showing up in the album. The phone randomly keeps rebooting

Was able to get my iPhone setup and running smoothly. iCloud restore is restoring apps that are unstable. Doing a phone to phone transfer showed those apps that needed to be removed.

Exactly the same problem for me.

Same here…very dissatisfying on these similar issues. What are the options on item replacement, refund ? Etc ?

Same. Got phone yesterday. Setup opens a blank screen. Basic functions freeze. I cannot update or even check the OS.

not only freezing its running hot like an app is running but none showing and locations set to only when in use