iPhone 16 Plus stuck in boot loop after iOS 26 update – anyone else?

Update on mine: As you can read my previous reply here. I actually fixed my own phone. I connected with a rapid charger, clicked up and down fast and held power down till PC screen came on, used itunes and clicked restore. I could not use my backup. My backup was corrupted. Why are backups Corrupted? This should not be happening. I had to go through as setting up a new iphone but it did have my contacts after I signed into everything. I did have to download all my apps, but once signed in the Apple App, if you look you can find all your apps you have downloaded you just have to re-download them. But I restored it and it's not stuck in the endless loop of a white screen that says recovery on it.

I got a 16 pro max four months ago, it updated to IOS26 and I went to bed woke up to my phone stuck in a boot loop on the recovery screen that was an endless cycle. I went to Verizon, they ordered me a replacement, got it the next day, turned it on did a restore from my icloud, updated it and it immediately went into a boot loop again, same as my original new phone. Went back to Verizon, she called Apple, they do not know and are sending me a 3rd phone, yes a 3rd phone because I'm under warranty. I followed steps on itunes to try to restore my phone, didn't work, tried updating through itunes, didn't work either. Nothing is bringing these phones out of this endless loop. I did the volume up and down and hold the power button, didn't work either. Verizon also tried the same, nothing worked. We have been Apple users for 10 years, this should not be happening. This will make me second guess going with Apple. I have been without a phone for almost 5 days now.

It happened to me on 2 devices. I updated my 13 people max to iOS 26 only to be met with the boot loop. I decided it was just time for an upgrade but my 16 pro max fell into the same after installing iOS 26 during setup. the past two weeks have just been endless restoring. I hope apple dress the fact that this new update is tanking a lot of people's devices. My brand new 16 pro max still isn't running.

iPhone12pro move to iPhone17pro same issue, updated to latest system, stuck in "swipe up to update" loop.

i update iPhone12pro to iOS 26, same loop.

The current iOS is terrible, with various issues.

I have tried all methods, including using recovery mode to update on a Mac and updating with third-party tools, but none of them worked. Unless I choose to reset the system without saving my data, there is no other solution.

MrQ92 wrote:

And their official community members will only repeat the methods we have already tried, providing no help at all.

You are welcome to offer positive solutions if you have any. That would be a more legitimate response.

Today, version 26.0.1 was released. I continued to attempt to connect to my Mac using recovery mode to update, hoping for a miracle to occur.

However, as expected, it still displayed "swipe up to update".

I have been trying to "update" the iPhone recovery mode using a Mac for two days, at least twenty times, but it still gets stuck here.

I want to preserve my data. If I could directly choose recovery without preserving data, I would have done it long ago.

I am sorry this happened to you and what a good thing that you now advocate to make a backup before upgrading, because this is a very, very important step that is often overlooked

Thanks, good advice, but you were warned on screen to backup before updating.

And their official community members will only repeat the methods we have already tried, providing no help at all.

you have to do an anti-recovery reset. Even then it might not be completely fixed. I use a 13 PM it really improved the issue but it still reboots occasionally

Three weeks after the release of iOS 26, Apple still hasn't made any updates to fix this five-year-old issue

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