ios 11 update phone freezing

My 7+ has been freezing up every other morning. The middle left quick-accessapp on the bottom of the screen is grayed out when this happens; I’m not sure if that is relevant. It just so happens to be my navigation app. I even tried using a different one in its place and it did the same thing. I updated to iOS 11.0.2 a few days ago and the issue continues.

I also have this problem, it will keep freezing if more than a few apps are open, when I play music and lock the screen the music player buttons will go grey and I can't touch them to change a song without unlocking the phone and re-opening the app, also I tried phoning someone today and they couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear them... worst update ever!

iOS 11.0.3 is out now which appears to fix this exact issue, although I have never had my screen replaced and I’m experiencing it. Hope this fixes it.

- Addresses an issue where touch input was unresponsive on some iPhone 6s displays because they were not serviced with genuine Apple parts"

No, unfortunately not! I've never had any iPhone parts being replaced. But at the same time I've been struggling with iPhone freezes since the update to iOS 11. And the bug with regular iPhone freezes is still definitely exist in 11.0.3.

Where in the information giving with the 11.0.3 update does it say it deals with the freeze? I only read that it fixes a bug with sound and haptics on the iPhone 7 series and a touch screen issue on certain 6s phones with 3rd party screens.

Yes, it probably is on your iPhone. Have you reported it to Apple by any means available? The freeze problem is probably much harder to pinpoint so all the data engineers can get helps them. My point was that 11.0.3 doesn't claim to fix that problem.

Thank you for the tips here...Well I have SE, 7 and an 8 now in the family all are totally smooth and back to normal, one of my 8 which had an issue was replaced under warranty by APPLE. Overall I see keeping in low battery mode helps as well...may be all additional settings are off in this mode.

Agreed. I updated last evening and my phone worked fine for about 5 minutes. I don’t know if Apple reads these forums but I assume that they do. I cannot understand why they have not seen to address what appears to be a very widespread issue. I have a 6 Plus. I skipped the 7 because I knew that whatever the 10th anniversary phone was on the way. Now they’re saying that most folks won’t be able to get their hands on an X until at least February or March. I’m not interested in the 8. I have had iPhones since the 5. I have endured very slightly buggy updates, but never one that essentially bricked my phone. I don’t pay much attention to Android world, so I don’t know if they have the same issues, but unless Apple straightens this out tout de suite, I’m going to start looking into Android as painful as that might be. They have phones more roughly on par with the X...

Re: If you've tried everything and it still doesn't work

Firstly, it appears we are the unfortunate segment. I've been warning all my iphone users not to upgrade but it appears many have already upgraded but don't experience this freeze problem.

Thanks for all the brilliant suggestions. I tried the various ideas ...

1. @ToxRowlang's idea to Reset Location settings back to original. It worked for 3 hours, then slowly degraded over 24-48 hours back to horrible freeze.

2. Later I tried @JesperDenmark idea which is to delete Tinder. I don't have Tinder - but I deleted all third party apps (anything that Apple did not provide as part of basic phone) - and reinstalled only if needed. Phone is 50% better but still occasionally lagging and freezing but at least not indefinitely or not as frequent.

3. I had enough and tried to downgrade to 10.3.3. At first I hit error 4000 (so I updated iTunes, turn off firewall & virus protect). Then I hit error 3194 (which means Apple doesn't allow downgrade ie 10.3.3 is no longer signed off the firmware).

4. I have tried @tushar_mehta's ideas of messing with selected Settings but didn't really help.

My current conclusion and options:

a) Wait for Apple to really fix it with a working iOS

b) when I have time, I'll hack away error 3194 to downgrade to 10.3.3 and stay there.

c) change phone to X, or more likely Samsung S8 or Note 8. I like Apple a lot & I understand technical blunders happen but this lack of accountability (quiet, no acknowledgement, etc) from them really frustrates me.

Will also keep trying your hacks guys. Thx.

Count me in. I have a 64GB iphone 7 and also experience the freezes people have been reporting (running ios 11.0.3). Apart from the freezes, I also have other issues with ios 11 :

- sometimes, I would initiate or receive calls ans not be able to hear or speak to the other person on the line (a reset would solve this but still, you can imagine the user experience of this)...

- listeing to music using a BT headset on a non Apple Music app (ie Deezer which is basically a Spotify competitor), commands sent using the headset would not be "routed" to the streaming app but interpreted by the iphone as meant for the default music app (eg, hitting play/pause while listening to a particular song would launch a song on the Apple music app). Also, the BT headset icon in the top menu bar would sometimes into show up there.

As a last resort before reinstalling my iphone as a new device, I have just disabled most of my "always on" location authorizations in the system settings as I've read in this thread that it might help... Will keep you posted.

Apple please fix this mess !! I had no such serious issues with ios 10

Count me in. I have a 64GB iphone 7 and also experience the freezes people have been reporting (running ios 11.0.3). Apart from the freezes, I also have other issues with ios 11 :

- sometimes, I would initiate or receive calls ans not be able to hear or speak to the other person on the line (a reset would solve this but still, you can imagine the user experience of this)...

- listeing to music using a BT headset on a non Apple Music app (ie Deezer which is basically a Spotify competitor), commands sent using the headset would not be "routed" to the streaming app but interpreted by the iphone as meant for the default music app (eg, hitting play/pause while listening to a particular song would launch a song on the Apple music app). Also, the BT headset icon in the top menu bar would sometimes into show up there.

As a last resort before reinstalling my iphone as a new device, I have just disabled most of my "always on" location authorizations in the system settings as I've read in this thread that it might help... Will keep you posted.

Apple please fix this mess !! I had no such serious issues with ios 10

Thank you for the tips here...Well I have SE, 7 and an 8 now in the family all are totally smooth and back to normal, one of my 8 which had an issue was replaced under warranty by APPLE. Overall I see keeping in low battery mode helps as well...may be all additional settings are off in this mode. Also I had MEASUREKIT AR APP saw the issues as soon as I installed...However since new device I had a genius appointment they confirmed defective piece and replaced my unit. Now all well!! Am not going to try any new OS until some stability there...will stay in 11.0.2 for now no issues

Count me in. I have a 64GB iphone 7 and also experience the freezes people have been reporting (running ios 11.0.3). Apart from the freezes, I also have other issues with ios 11 :

- sometimes, I would initiate or receive calls ans not be able to hear or speak to the other person on the line (a reset would solve this but still, you can imagine the user experience of this)...

- listeing to music using a BT headset on a non Apple Music app (ie Deezer which is basically a Spotify competitor), commands sent using the headset would not be "routed" to the streaming app but interpreted by the iphone as meant for the default music app (eg, hitting play/pause while listening to a particular song would launch a song on the Apple music app). Also, the BT headset icon in the top menu bar would sometimes into show up there.

As a last resort before reinstalling my iphone as a new device, I have just disabled most of my "always on" location authorizations in the system settings as I've read in this thread that it might help... Will keep you posted.

Apple please fix this mess !! I had no such serious issues with ios 10

iphone 6s user.After updating to iOS11

Mine is freezing every 5 mins. Apps, touch screen .Phone blacks out .

At time call doesnt show and will see voicemail straight, after reboot it works.

Update to iOS11 w/o taking backup. Now there is no way to downgrade to iOS10 w/o loosing data .

Apple please let us know the way to downgrade to iOS10 w/o data loss.

iOS11 is just UNUSABLE and FRUSTRATING .

Whats the point of havin 1000 featurs when basic functionality: Phone call is broke ???

Hi! I have an iPhone 7+ with 11.0.3 software and even just when it had the 11.0.0 version it would freeze on me that i would have to turn it off to make it work again.

This time though with 11.0.3 the message icon would gray out (attached image) and I won’t be able to do anything to have it respond. I locked it and left it alone for 3-5mins but after unlocking it, it was in its same unresponsive-message-icon-grayed-out state. The one thing to do was force restart it.

Never ever ever had this issue before with my past iphones and that is why I love the iPhone because it never freezes like Android phones. Apple, fix please and ASAP.