iPhone 16 Pro Freezes and Restarts

+1. Exact same problem, primarily with settings app which most often just opens to black screen. 1 time it opened but wasn’t usable and many icons missing. Frequent freezes and reboots after trying to open apps and/or settings.

I’ve been having the same exact issue and this is my second iPhone 16 Pro. I took the first one back and got a new one in hopes of that resolving the issue but nope 👎. Still dealing with the same issue. I was told that resetting the phone and not using a backup may be the able to fix it. Anyone tried that strategy successfully yet?

I went to the Apple Store and they told me the same thing, I still wasn't able to launch the settings app or certain text messages. Like my spouses text thread it will let me in. However other text threads absolutely won't open. I wondering if its worth having them replace the phone or just return the dang thing. I'm refusing to send back my trade in until this is solved. I can't connect the phone to my car, It won't accept being plugged into my cars USB port, It will charge but won't play music. I'm at a loss, And apple is just leaving us in the dark like this isn't happening

I am now on day 3 of trying to get my new phone to do ANYTHING without crashing. I reset the phone completely. It looked like it was downloading propery, but when I woke up this morning more than 2/3 of the apps had stopped downloading and now it just keeps shutting back off to the black screen with the death spiral. I am upgrading from an Iphone XR and this is EXACTLY why I didn't want to upgrade except the XR was starting to not want to phone anymore either. I gues my next step is to attempt to reset (If I can without crashing) and attempt manual from my ancient macbook. Im eady to toss this useless thousand dollar brick out the window.

Same! I got my new iPhone 16 pro last week and switched from my iPhone 13 Pro which I loved. Since getting the iPhone 16 pro apps crash, the camera fret urns black and crashes, and sometime it will freeze on webpages. It has been a nightmare and I miss my old phone…

Same problem here with my 16PM. And Apple has not given me an update on what next or when my replacement will be sent out. This has been a terrible experience. I have needed my phone due to an emergency. I have had to deal with restarting, freezing, hot phone and going blank for days.

I’m having similar issues, however my 16 pro and both of my previous 16 pro max’s all restarted. I came from Samsung so i did a full transfer which took 5 hours. Idk how it happened, but all of my near 9,000 photos synced to iCloud, to which i have to pay for added storage. Now, the photos app syncs the photos randomly and 1% a day i swear it’s going. I went in and mass deleted nearly 1500 unwanted pics & deleted 40 minutes of videos. Anyway, my phone is restarting no matter what I’m doing. It did it in the middle of a call, in the middle of deleting photos, it’s always restarting on me while I’m in the middle of doing something important or needed. I am growing so frustrated as i cannot figure out what is going on. I thought maybe it was the Background Refresh, so i turned it off. I did realize today that my WiFi temporarily turns off when phone is locked, and turns back on when phone is unlocked. Idk if maybe this is bugging it out? I also am having CarPlay issues. Today, my CarPlay completely bugged and froze in my BMW. Idk i just hope these bugs get fixed soon. AT&T told me there is a iOS 18.01 update but I’ve yet to see it

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?

After two iPhones (the original bought and the replacement both setup with Move to iOS and then iCloud backup) had kernel panics, I contacted Apple support to ask how to setup the new third iPhone I got and they told me to set it up as completely new, to not even put my Apple account during setup but only afterwards in the settings.

Now my new iPhone is perfectly fine with no kernel panics and no camera freezing. I notice some touches are not registered but I hope they will continue to patch this issue.

PS - Apple support told me that if you restore from iCloud, factory reset won’t fix any issues stemming from the backup.

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 signal bars. It also 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 reset circle when you run an app and things are weird, you found the misbehaving app. Uninstall the bad app, do a reset and see if things are stable.

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

Sounds like an app that had issues and updated. I hope that’s the case. 😊

My 16 pro max 512gb was working fine and today all the sudden it started freezing and turning off. Never had this happen with an iPhone.

Same issue - iphone 16 pro freezes at least once per hour, often more frequently