Spinning wheel next to WiFi on iPhone

Force restart

That's my first go-to when the screen is frozen, spinning wheel won't stop, etc

Like you, it works for me in these situations.

Thanks for posting

Hi there,

On the 6 models, you would hold down the home and side (power) buttons down together, let phone kick off, Apple logo will appear, then let go of buttons.

Hope that helps ~

I reset my network settings and it stopped.

Wow that totally worked for me, disabled dictation and the spinning wheel instantly stops. 6s plus also. Nice find. Thank you.

I experienced the same annoying issue... and after resetting network settings, it went better for an hour... and started again, draining battery fast. I disabled the "background apps + automatic updates of Appstore"... nothing.

Then I realized that I had been doing IOS updates OTA and I remembered that in the past, it was explained that OTA updates are like an "onion" OS... which means, layer above layer after each update, slower and sometimes with more bugs than "clean IOS".

--> I did a backup of my iPhone... i downloaded IOS 11.0.3 IPSW and typed "restore"... to do a FULL RESTORE.

After restart... just restore from backup... and your IOS is clean. It works and it's been a few days that I can finally enjoy IOS11 properly. Hope this helps you. Remember that OTA updates are quite convenient, but for a major release update like from 10 to 11... a full restore is sometimes better and needed.

I contacted Apple support for this problem and this is what they told me to do and it did solve the problem. Go to Settings, General, Background App Refresh. Toggle Background App Refresh to "off". Don't just turn it off for each app but turn Background App Refresh off. Then force restart your phone by simultaneously holding down the right side lock button and the volume down button until the phone restarts. The hard restart does not make you lose any information. This fixed it for me.

Update your device asap

Force restart

May have to give it several tried to get to the download and install button and for it to initiate, before the screen begins spinning again

If not possible, connect it to iTunes to update.

This has been a reoccurring issue since Dec 2

Good luck!

I used Siri and it worked for me. I just got my 8+ less than a week ago. It started spinning a couple days ago. I simply asked Siri to turn off my Wi-Fi and turn it back on. When I turned my Wi-Fi off and on manually on my own, it didn’t work but when Siri did it it worked! Thanks for your idea! It really worked. All the other ideas I tried, the spinning wheel came right back. ☺

Its an indicator of activity and usially pops up when im loading a page or something.. so if you're not online or on an app and its spinning, then its indicating someone or something elses activity on your phone. I heard it was a sign of spyware. But it does happen to me when I somehow accidentaly hit the microphone dictation button on the keyboard. Ive heard some people say it has to do with Siri and so on. Ive found that the issue is linked to the microphone. If u have the FB app thrn you know FB listens through your microphone 24/7 to pick up convos and keywords for target marketing and advertising. So anyways, the only way Ive been able to fix the issue is to go to settings and turn off microphone access on every app, and disable the microphone dictation in keyboard, then restart my phone.. I dont think its a bug or error at all, I think it just indicates the microphone is on and somethings listening at that moment

It did not show my workout for the day. And the spinning went away after the force restart.

iPhone 6 Plus. iOS 11.2.6.

Disabled dictation and hard restart resolved the spinning wheel on my unit.

DON'T RESTART OR RESET YET!!

First try using Siri (hold down the Home button then ask a question). This solved the problem for me too.

Activating Siri and asking her something then hanging up worked. Until....I use my voice to text next time.

This worked!

I remember that I mistakenly hit the dictation button today (when this started for me) and canceled it out without saying anything. That may have started it.

As at least one other person suggested in this thread, invoking Siri and asking her a question fixed it for me