My iphone 5 suddenly died.

Thank you - this fixed my problem - had to do it a few times so not sure if the ringer toggle is needed.

Wow, as crazy as the ringer toggle fix seems, it appears to have worked. My phone was completely dead, randomly shutting off, and asking to be restored, then choking on the restore. Tried hard reboot and anything I could think of and nothing worked. Even ordered a replacement through verizon cause I had insirance on it. But thinking I'd have to wait a few days to get a replacement, I kept looking for fixes. This absolutely seems to have work. Hopefully this will hold. Probably will swap it out for the replacement when it comes anyway, but amazed that this seems to have worked.

Short lived. Died again about a half hour later.

So after restoring it about a half dozen times, only to have it shut down and ask to be restored again within a half hour, I finally did a restore and set up as a new phone, and added no music or non-essential apps. Has been fine for several hours now, the longest period yet. So I'm thinking the whole problem may have been app or music related. I did replace a lot of songs with imatch versions lately. Could one of those be corrupt? Of could it be some app upgrade? How do you narrow it down to which though, especially if its a music file.

And since I have a new phone comng through my verizon insurance, is it likely that if I reload my full backup on there, I'll have the same issues. Time will tell I guess. For now I'm just going to use it like this for the weekend, so I'm not without a phone.

It happened to my 5S and I booked an appointment with the genius Bar but I just came across RJM's tip, which seems to have cured my issue. I have to charge it to see if it recovers, but at least I could see the outline of a dead battery.

In my case I wasn't doing anything before it died. Probably checked mail or Facebook when last used. Not many apps in use. It refused to turn on and it couldn't be flat at that time of day. It would not take a charge from a battery - in fact it turned off its LEDs, as if the circuitry didn't like the iPhone in that state. But RJM's tip worked. 🙂

Thank you! Left work and my phone was working fine, got home and it was dead as a doornail, and I knew it was charged. Tried this and was I relieved when the Apple logo appeared! Very weird thing to happen tho!!

Thanks RJM,

It worked for me

it also worked fo me!! great !!

It worked! Sweet, thanks for the help!

My wife's iPhone 5s suddenly died and as mentioned above, holding the sleep and home buttons together for about 10 seconds worked perfectly to get it back up. I tried the mute switch toggle first and that did not work but the holding of the sleep and home buttons only did. Just a note that it definitely worked for us. Thanks for the advise guys!

My iphone 5 suddenly died this morning. The sleep/lock screen button had stopped working a few months ago. Besides that no problems at all. Was talking on it this morning at full power, went to take a shower, came back to find the phone screen black. Would not turn back on and tried many many tricks from this thread and others. Took it to the genius bar - they could not figure it out. Took it to Verizon - same ending. Both wanted $200 -$300 for a replacement. I kept the phone in an otterbox and quit apps religiously. Has this happened to anyone else?

Same thing happened to me, was working fine and then wouldn't turn on one morning, wouldn't power up, nothing.

Went to Apple store, they couldn't get it to power on, couldn't find any water damage and didn't have any ideas why it wouldn't turn on or what happened.

3 weeks out of warranty, only choice they offered was to buy a refurb.

Worst of both worlds, I'm in a contract paying for a phone that doesn't work.

I'm done with phone plans that include a subsidized phone, so likely done with iphones after this debacle.

Same thing happened to me this morning. It was working well yesterday and this morning ,even the alarm for my reminders went off, 30 minutes later the phone was off.The phone is 2 months old,iPhone 5s. Also my daughter was doing this software update thing on her iPhone5 last week when it suddenly died. As u university student she hasn't found time to take it to apple store.

I have phoned my supplier since I bought mine on contract ,they said I must bring it in for repairs. Will know then what the problem is. Kind of disappointed, I dint expect this with apple products.

Have you tried rebooting it, as explained innumerable times in the thread?

Hold the HOME and SLEEP buttons at the same time until an Apple logo appears, then release.

Thank you Lawrence ,I have just done that and it's back on,so far it seems fine. I must admit I didn't read other peoples response or advise about this,so I didn't know.

Thanx again !