My iphone 5 suddenly died.

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 !

Yes, holding the buttons will reboot your iPhone, but my iPhone 5 has shut off 5 times in the past 12 hours. I missed my morning alarm because it shut off randomly!

Holding the buttons down will not fix anything, it will just reboot your iPhone.

There seems to be a bug with the newest update that Apple really needs to take care of!

Update: My iPhone just randomly shut off for the 6th time! Immediately after rebooting...

Ok. So my ip5 suddenly died when I was doing some photoshoot and I never had a clue what went wrong so I just left it for awhile but I was kinda anxious, I admit. When I came home my girlfriend told me to search in the internet about it and WHAM! I read this article and tried it straightaway and it strangely worked! Thanks mate..I thought I'll have it sent to the shop for another rip off repair!

thanks much xxx

My Iphone 5c suddenly died, I rebooted it and the apple logo comes up, then the screen goes black, then the logo comes up again, then the screen turns blue, then the apple logo comes up again. It has been doing this sequence for about an hour.

Phew! Mine just did the sudden death overnight thing, and thanks to this forum it's working again. Thank you, RJM!

Pays not to panic.

Sorry, what are the sleep and home buttons? My screen is a dim blue color. Nothing happens when I hold the on-off button

The HOME button is the big round button below the screen. The SLEEP button is the button on top, the one you called the on-off button.

My iphone 5s died this morning and I had booked a phone call meeting using this number. It was more than 80% charged in the morning. Initially, I thought I just needed to charge but when it didn't start after charging I started to panic and postponed the meeting. Then I came across this solution that just turn on and off mute button few times and then hold the home button and switch off button together and it came back to life.

Apple must do something to resolve this issue as I don't want this to happen again to my Iphone.

This has just happened to me, was on charge tall night and checked weather. Phone was on 100%, went back to phone and was dead. Have done the reboot of home and sleep and this has brought back to life .... battery now on 83... no 81% and dropping!

this just worked for me, strange indeed.

pataldrich wrote:

this just worked for me, strange indeed.

Since when has rebooting a computer been "strange"? You mean you never had to reboot Windows? Or a Mac? Or Linux? Or even a mainframe?

first freeze on an iphone ever = strange.

sheesh, didn't realize it was so hostile over here.

:::putting on helmet::::

The problem here is why is the issue fairly common with iPhone5? It wasn't that common with its predecessors. Rebooting means rebooting, but not trying to restore 'life' to a dying phone.

I've had several iPhones since June, 2007 (Original, 3S, 4S and now a 5S). Every one of them has required occasional rebooting. I usually reboot preëmptively about once a week; doing this seems to reduce the probability of the phone crashing at an inconvenient time.

Your mistake in thinking that the device is a phone. It's actually a very powerful pocket-sized computer that can also make phone calls. And it has all of the foibles that computers have.