iOS 26 update causing app crashes and freezes on iPhone

After Install today, Messages locked up. Mail then locked up. Now General, Settings, Apps is locking up. Apps them selves are beginning to fail to work. Screen Capture shuts the phone off. Rapidly becoming a PAPER WEIGHT...Hope no breaks in tonight.

Multiple Restarts with try this, try that...

Dozens of Posts on internet that say, "This will fix the problem." Nada.

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Original Title: iOS26 Breaking Down

iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Sep 17, 2025 5:55 PM

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Henkle28

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Posted on Sep 23, 2025 12:11 PM

Same issue: iMessages, Mail, and Phone would all lock up upon opening on iPhone after upgrade to iOS26. iPad (iOS26) or Mac has no issues. A restart would temporarily resolve the issue but it would return quickly. What has worked for me, at least for now, was the tip about blocked contacts. I had over 6,000 blocked contacts, mostly due to the number neighbor spam, and I unblocked enough to get me under 5,500. (Why is there not a mass edit button @Apple? You have to individually click each!) Also, blocked contacts seem to be device specific so I couldn’t adjust them on my iPad. Additionally, I deleted some malformed numbers that didn’t have all the digits in the contact. For now, seems to have worked and my expensive paper weight is mostly usable again.

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