iPhone 6 Plus Crashing (a lot)

Well, I don't think that there will come a recall.

I think Apple has noticed the problems now. And that was not easy. There are 75% iPhone 6 and 25% iPhone 6 plus when you look on the sold new devices.

And there are perhaps 10% 128gb models sold from the 6 plus and perhaps 20-25% 64gb models. And the most owners of this devices have not more than 700 apps installed. So cases of theses problems were and are not so often.

I can say that I have no more crashes since I deleted a lot of apps til I had only 658 apps installed. And yes the most of these deleted apps I had not used for some years.

Maybe there is a problem with the TLC NAND controller. But I believe Apple can fix it with an iOS Update. I have heard that Apple will release 8.1.1 in the next days. The problem of this NAND seems to be the speed. So important is how the software uses the controller. And each iOS device model has its own personal iOS firmware. So Apple can write an iOS 8.1.1 for 6 plus 128gb models who solve the problems.

When Apple uses an other NAND in new produced iPhones they want to prevent. That' it.

BTW: On the new iPad Air 128gb there are no problems.

Exhaustive testing seems to point at this being a software problem:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/14/11/08/is.the.1000.app.limit.storage.size.or.qua ntity.of.file.related/

It is far more in depth than my own testing (last week, posted above in thread), but draws the same conclusion really.

I do take issue with Macnn's "Apple-friendly" conclusion that it is a non-issue stirred up by a competitor! Ridiculous statement that undermined all their good work.

Update on my iPhone 6 Plus 128GB AT&T model with all of the symptoms mentioned over and over in the posts. I had 860 or so apps and had to stay in Zoomed mode as it had less crashes. I wanted the issue to go away until the fix is done by Apple, so I deleted apps until I got down to 771, then tested "standard" view again. It is much more stable in standard view. I have had 4 respring crashes in standard view in 2 days though. This is much better than hundreds of crashes in one day I had with standard view with 860 apps. Three of the crashes were when switching apps even after having under the threshold of 793 triggering "Crashgate" It doesn't matter on the apps as they were usually native Apple apps I was switching to and from. The frequency has went way down to a usable state in "standard" view with less than the mentioned 793 apps JasHayre mentioned. I went lower to give wiggle room for downloading new apps without causing the dreaded resprings every minute.

I hope Apple has a recall for the TLC NAND Flash and replaces with the MLC flash ASAP if this is in fact the cause. If it is software, then I hope they have enough crash data from all of us beta testing for them by now to resolved this soon!

Glad to hear it made the phone usable for you.

Remember that I only tested for about 2 hours with no crashes at that level, so am not surprised you still had a few crashes over 2 days. As you say though, it is a huge improvement and makes it usable.

I suspect we may need to reduce to under 700 for complete stability. Very disappointing that Apple have not fixed this, and did not spot it before releasing iOS.

So does crash eliminated under iOS 8.1.1?

Another news story on this:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/572321/20141111/apple-iphone-6-plus-bendgate-128- gb.htm#.VGkxocmQ8cV

No... for me it's worse on 8.1.1... uncontrollable reboot loop.

Waiting until battery runs flat to try iTunes restore.

No anyone else have try ios 8.1.1?

iOS 8.1.1 makes no improvement to this crashing problem.

Appalling performance from Apple.

Same here. iOS 8.1.1 did NOT make a difference with the constant respring crashes I experience with my second AT&T 128GB iPhone 6 Plus. Most of my crashes happen shortly after I press the home button twice to switch between apps usually when I am scrolling for another app or tapping on an app to switch to. The rest are pretty random. I am now well below the 850 apps I had. I now have 767 apps. I do get less crashes now that I deleted many apps I didn't use, but I still get an annoying 6 or so per day usually when I need my phone the most. When I had standard view with 850 or so apps, it crashed about every minute or two even unlocking.

I have read countless articles blaming the slower TLC NAND flash the 128GB iPhones are using for our issue. If the TLC flash is the cause, please Apple hurry up and produce MLC NAND flash replacements iPhones and recall our phones if you want to keep me and many others as customers in the future.

I am afraid Apple is developing a software workaround for the likely hardware problem to prevent the headlines of "Apple recalls all 128GB iPhones". If the performance is degraded on our TLC iPhones as a result of the workaround, I will be wronged twice by Apple on one phone. If it is a hardware issue PLEASE tuck the tail and recall them. If it is truly a software issue, then PLEASE prioritize this issue in development for a iOS update to resolve the issue.

This should have been caught in QA testing. I didn't pay this much for a phone to be a beta tester, and my patience is pretty much gone at this point.

I really believe this is an iOS issue. Apple need to deal with it. They will only do so as a priority though if the mainstream press picks up on the issue.

If lots of us complain to BBC Watchdog (if in UK, or elsewhere as appropriate based on your country), Apple will get a LOT of terrible PR over this - and may just fix it.

Use this please: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg74/contact

..... to report the issue to BBC Watchdog if in the UK.

If a member of WHICH, please complain there.

Let's get consumer organisations on to this.

For me this has happened a few times, without any explanation or connection, as far as I can tell, but the main issue seems to be around external links connected to Facebook. If there's a link in Facebook and I click on it (usually to a YouTube vid), the vid will play for a second or two and then crash. Facebook is still running, but it's that external link thing that is causing the crash. It's been happening a lot lately (didn't when I first got the phone a month or so ago). Very weird. I'm going to take it to the Applestore at some point and have them look it over, see if they have any advice. For now, based on some other advice on this thread, I've moved my view to zoomed. We'll see if that helps.

Very disappointed, Apple. I expected better. 😟

I have the same issue. I must go through 8-10 resprings where an app crashes on launch, going into the app switcher, or just getting to the lockscreen. It'll hit a black screen and then show the Apple logo and load everything back up again. Just found out my device is using TLC NAND if that makes a difference. 128 GB iPhone 6+.