iPhone 16 Pro Freezes and Restarts

My iPhone 16 Pro 256gb was fine yesterday. This morning, it has been crashing constantly. The settings app and the calendar app are the worst culprits. Calendar just freezes, you cannot drill down to the day. The settings app just turns black and then crashes. Multiple times the whole phone restarts. I tried a hard restart to see if it was a cache issue. Didn't help. I turned off the wifi and that seemed to slightly help when using other apps. One time the settings app worked and I went to see the analytics logs. Lots of crashes in there and 1 kernel panic. Also, Siri is not responding; just hangs there with no response.

I spent 3 days transferring all the apps from my iPhone 13 Pro and do NOT want to reset it again. Getting an authenticator app configured with all my accounts takes hours. This is very disappointing.

Anyone have any thoughts or proven solutions? Thank you in advance.

iPhone 16 Pro

Posted on Sep 24, 2024 7:47 AM

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PatrickHRCO Author

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Posted on Sep 25, 2024 1:31 PM

After 24 hours of being stable, the issues are back. No updates no apps installed. All apps are unresponsive now and cause kernel panics.

This is ridiculous on a brand new phone.

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RGR SR

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Oct 6, 2024 3:09 AM in response to PatrickHRCO

I just had my first freeze… nothing worked. I tried to turn off the phone and nothing worked. After about two minutes it went away and all is well… for now.

Oct 9, 2024 1:32 AM in response to _miguel__

Update to 18.0.1 has resolved my issues thankfully

Oct 9, 2024 11:48 AM in response to PatrickHRCO

My IPhone 16 Pro camera freezes and I have to shut off the phone and restart. This has happened 4 times in the last week.

Oct 11, 2024 3:29 PM in response to PatrickHRCO

Support had me go to settings - camera - Macro Control and turn it off. Do a hard boot and it seemed to fix it for now.

Oct 18, 2024 5:49 AM in response to PatrickHRCO

My iPhone 16 Pro Max is fine now, but had to book a genius bar appointment to solve the issues. Total reformat and reinstall, but it's such a great phone and camera.

rbgarz

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Oct 18, 2024 12:51 PM in response to chrishill

Glad to hear going into a store helped out, has there been any issue since? especially launching the camera..? appreciate any feedback!

Oct 18, 2024 1:01 PM in response to rbgarz

Yes the phone had been fine since. Camera and everything else works fine.

iPhone 16 Pro Freezes and Restarts