iPhone 16 Pro not turning on

Just got my brand new iPhone 16 pro three days ago. Turned it off while plugged in last night and the same thing happened this morning. Had to force restart to get it on.

You hit volume up then down quickly (without holding either one), and then hold down the power button by itself. It should turn on within 5-10 seconds.

This just happened to me for the first time. I think the scenario was identical to everyone else—My battery is set to charge to 90% max, and then I turned off my phone. I’m not 100% certain I turned off my phone before it reached 90%, but I turned it off and unplugged it. This morning, I plugged in my phone to finish charging, and I was surprised the screen didn’t turn on. I didn’t really think anything of it for 10 or 15 minutes, and when I tried to turn it on… nothing. The force restart worked for me. What’s interesting is if I look at the battery level chart for the last 24 hours, the chart is empty starting at the point where I would’ve plugged it in to start charging last night. It also says “last charged to 90%,” and the date is the previous time I charged. All of this makes me hopeful that it is a software problem.

Annoying, this has happened a number of times now in a phone that costs over £1200! Battery is always at 100% but firmware seems to think the battery has no charge, come on Apple, fix this bug!!

My iPhone 16 never turns on n I have had it fixed 3 times. I am so sick of this

My brand new 16 Pro also died after a night of charging. Is this a flaw? Not happy.

Well said. Apple needs to give us a solution to this problem or replace these phones. God knows we pay enough for them.

They all have it. It’s the firmware we downloaded maybe the 18.1 or .2

iPhone 16 pro Max here. This happened to me this morning. I usually switch it off and charge at night. Took me about 10 minutes in frustration to finally get it switched on. Had to force start 3 times.

I’m really hoping this is a bug and will be fixed in the next software update and not my phone. These things ain’t cheap 😅

Same here. The only thing tech support told me is to reduce the battery charging to 80% and therefore not able to use optimized battery charging. Also to only use the supplied USB-C cable NOT the Apple MagSafe I have used for years and try that….either way it’s not good! As you say these are expensive phones.

looks like you have the opposite problem to me. Mine charges on both but if I use the wireless I have to do the vol up/down reset…and at that very slow to start. Also can’t charge to 100% or I also need to do reset start. Hopefully Apple is reading these posts and working on a fix….seems like a spreading problem!

So I have had this problem since day 1…but only when I use an apple OEM MagSafe and the phone is set to charge over 80%. When it won’t start I have to do volume up volume down and side button (hold until the apple logo comes on). It works normally charging on USB-C (although have not tried at 100%, only charging to 80% or 90%). I works on a third party wireless charger (although when set to 90% it charged to 100%!). I have spoken with apple support both level 1 and subsequently level 2 supervisor and the only answer they have is use the USB-c provided and do not set over 80%. My opinion is this is a glitch and apple has yet to figure out a fix. I am lucky in that I have always managed to reset and get it operational…it’s disappointing that Apple hasn’t yet stated they are working on the problem and indicated it will be covered if hardware or corrected by a future update. Last note…all the chargers and cables I have used work fine on my wife’s 13 mini and worked great for years on my 13 pro.

Quickly press volume up then volume down then press and hold side button until the apple logo comes up…then release. If that doesn’t work do the same thing plugged in with the USB-C charger. That is straight from Apple tech support….the. As a safeguard set the charge to less than 100% before charging next time.

I posted a message on the issues discussed here. I also tried to recussitate the 16 pro max applying the wireless DFU-procedure by putting my (working) iPhone 16 next the (not working) iPhone 16 pro max. Helas, that did not work either.