Spinning wheel next to WiFi on iPhone

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.

Actually, best fix was... new IOS release... I entered their beta program (it's free) and now I am using successfully IOS 11.2 beta 2 or 3... last one.

No more issues with spinning wheel at all... not even after opening apps...

i have this issue since yesterday . i am using ios 11.1.2 my iphone 6s constantly has the 'spinning wheel' issue after 1 or 2 mins i turned off internet data wifi. it didnt worked for me . i have reseted netwrork settings its didnt worked either. i have used hard reboot it didnt work using either home button n power button. i em fed up its a pain in my ***.. please resolve this issue or tell us how to resolve it.

Mine is iphone 6s, I had this issue since today morning ~ it kept black screen & spinning wheel & returning to "enter password" page! i couldn't even type a proper whatsapp message or view a internet page. it just constantly happens!

Actually i updated to ios11 2 weeks ago, & i updated to latest version of IOS 11 just now after i had this problem. But the problem still doesn't go away! i turned my iphone off now,since this problem really heats up the iphone itself.

Come on iphone! don't make me smash you onto the floor~ this bug is just so stupid!

And it really annoys me since i'm not a heavy smartphone user! i don't even use iphone to play games or listening music !!!

Hi my iphone 6s plus strated doing this exact same thing this morning. Read the forum tried everything others were saying to do. " FOUND A SOLUTION AND MY PHONE HAS NOT DONE IT SINCE"... go to SETTINGS, then GENERAL, then RESET, then ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS. It will only erase the phone settings etc not your personal things... hope it helps. It did for me

pesarek84, thanks to your contribution i believe i was able to resolve my issue - only after doing due diligence and trying what everyone else said, short of completely erasing and resetting back to factory settings.

this seemed to be a multi-prong issue for me -

1.

my iCloud was full, and i had put off upgrading my storage account. when i asked a friend about the blackscreen/spinning wheel issue, she said she heard it has to do with iCloud. so i went in and upgraded.

2a.

followed pesarek84's instructions, and attempted to backup before deleting, but it kept blackscreen/spinning wheeling so i wasn't able to clear it all out.

2b.

then, i wasn't sure if i had iOS 11 installed, thought maybe i was on 10. found that i did have 11.1, but also found the 11.2 upgrade. started the installation process for it, however i needed to backup my phone, and had trouble doing so since the blackscreen/spinning wheel thing kept happening, restarting the process.

except that this time, when it would 'shut off', i'd go back and try to install the iOS update, and luckily it seemed to pick up where it left off. once the download was complete, it rebooted itself and now seems to work fine, with no blackscreen/spinning wheel action.

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in the past, the sleep/volume down button seemed to have some cache clearing action, as it would make apps run faster but it didn't help at all with this issue.

hope that dl'ing iOS 11.2 works for those still affected!

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. ☺

Up until yesterday I had this problem. Resetting my phone would only fix it temporarely, along with turning it off and then back on. One of the options I read on here was restoring my phone, but I did not want to do that. I found a solution that did work though.

If you push the sleep/wake button as if turning it off, it will then when it gives you the option to swipe the top of the screen to turn it off. So instead of swiping, push and hold the home button. Keep doing that until it takes you to the home screen. At that point, it should be gone.

I’VE SOLVED IT! Not the actual bug but I’ve figured out the root cause. Try triggering Siri and then press the home button to just cancel. See if the wheel stops. It worked for me! I also have an issue with the weather widget not updating in Notification Center too and it seems to update the location as soon as I trigger Siri.

I just recently updated and noticed my battery wasn’t lasting my work day when before I had no issues. I read all the replies and this one about disabling dictation fixed my spinning wheel issue. Please fix as the talk to text feature can become mighty convenient.

Sorry this did nothing, holding down the volume down button and the right side button simultaneously. Did not shut it down. I have the 6S+ so maybe it’s a different sequence? The constantly spinning wheel is annoying and worrisome.

I tried this.... it goes off. But as soon as you open message again, it starts spinning and doesn't stop. I didn't even type a text, I just clicked on messages and it started spinning immediately and hasn't stopped. So I don't think it's the dictation feature because mine is off.

Not really WHY “this” fixes it but it did pronto! Go to settings, general. reset, reset NETWORK settings (you may lose wallpaper or a font or something.. I didn’t though) it closes and opens itself and voila! Totally gone and back to normal. Good luck!

Hi csmitty,

In your situation, it appears it fixed it as it was a networking issue- either cellular or WiFi. Resetting network settings resets ALL settings related specifically to your carrier and ISP.

Good job on isolating the issue and in turn, resolving your issue :)