iOS 11 Lock screen bug

I believe I found a workaround solution to this bug (and yes I have tried the recommended “fixes” but it would still happen after a few hours).

Workaround Solution: Clear out all notifications. In the lock screen or notifications view press and hold the little x which will give you the option to clear all of the notifications for that day.

I did this 4 days ago and I have had no issues with my lock screen or notifications screen as of yet. It seems that’s iOS can’t handle a certain amount of notifications (I must have closed out over 200+ notifications). Starting with today I’m only leaving notifications for the current day and the day before (clearing out any older notifications).

Hope this helps you guys and also hoping for iOS 11.3 to have a fix for this.

UPDATE NOV 5: My issues below have been resolved since I've updated to 11.1. If you haven't done so, I HIGHLY recommend you do.

ISSUE REPORTED in LATE OCTOBER:

Same issue here. iPhone 7 Plus. Upgraded to the latest iOS (11.03). Now I need to reset it 10 times a day. Turned off Apple Pay. What I’ve noticed is that if I hit the power button to lock my screen, the phone goes into a deep-freeze.

If I locked the screen and try to revive it seconds late, IMPOSSIBLE. I have to reset it. If i don’t lock it physically and let it auto-lock on its own, it doesn’t become unresponsive.

But I’ve now missed SO MANY pictures because I pull out my phone, swipe it and... Nothing. Black screen. Click screen. Nothing. Click home button. Haptic response. But black screen stays. Aaaaargh Apple, hard reset once again.

Not cool and not funny, Apple!!!

This issue was happening on my iPhone 7 and then on my iPhone X.

I found a solution on my side:

1. I change the wallpaper from perspective to still.

2. I removed the last widget called “Fandango”.

No more issues since the 2 changes. I think removing the widget made the difference. You might want to remove all non-Apple widget to check if the issue is still here and then add non-Apple widget one by one to identify which one is causing the issue.

I just switched to update after using Amdroid for years - IPhone X on latest version of iOS

Lockscreen goes blank - no way out other than reboot. I've found A workaround, but feel it's ridiculous Apple hasn't fixed this

To fix it, simply remove your widgets. I have not had a crash in over month since doing this. I tried adding them back in one by one, no luck I have a $1k phone with a blank widget screen. It beats trying to get out into the phone only to have to reboot it though

It’s something with the widgets and. Originations and attached to iCloud accounts I believe. I say this because it is affecting my iPad as well. Using little to no widgets will stop it but it will not stop

The fidgeting animations when going into and out of apps. I tried to DFU restore the phone ( Device firmware update) and not only did it not work, it almost bricked my phone when I restarted it. Thank goodness a second restart brought the phone back. So once again reduce your widget count or remove them and this blank lock screen, widgets, and notifications bug though still

There will stop wreaking havoc on your phone.

I was having the same issue on my up to date iPhone X. I’d look at my lock screen and the time/notifications/now-playing wouldn’t be displayed for no particular reason. I’d still be able to press where the now-playing buttons would have been and the music would respond, so it’s like the functions were still there - I just couldn’t see them. I was about to restart my phone for the third time today and I read about changing the widgets. I unlocked the phone, removed three widgets (stocks, weather, and a banking app), locked it and the lock screen fixed itself.

Update: settings reset does not work either. The best solution is to turn off the widgets. When I did that before, it did help with the lock screen. I really hope Apple fixes this.

Those are the basic.

Try and test

Restore from backup

Restore as new

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201252

I also still have the issue. Don’t know when apple will recognize this problem and rectify it. There are videos on YouTube about it now. Though after the update the glitch isn’t as frequent but still frustrating. I am tryout g something else in the meantime to see if it will Finally kill the bug. I have reseted all settings to see if it will be a fix. Apparently some people have done it and it worked for them.

If you are having the blank lock screen and sometimes frozen widgets on the lock screen and unable to access the camera from the lock screen as well

As overall jittery laggy performance of the phone, what I am doing so far is I have reset my settings. I am giving it a week to see how it works out.

I had the exact same issue in 11.1 as well. This is how I resolved and post that I disabled the banner style popping notification...

1. Just single press of Volume Up

2. Press Volume Down

3. Press and hold Power Button until you see apple logo

And you are done, restarted and started working peacefully! Thanks Apple for documenting this in the pages.

It'd not exclusive to ios 11. You could've avoided upgraded and it still. Could've happened. It happened to me on ios 10.3 and someone I know had it happen on ios 10.2. I tried updating to ios 11 and it didn't fix the problem. Neither upgrading worked. Recently I am now using widgets except 2 widgets that seem to be causing the lock screen to go blank and now the widgets and clock and access to the camera from the lock screen are retaining. Only problem that persists is when there are too many notifications, the notifications start to hide behind the other and the music controls in the notification shade would abnormally appear when it is supposed to already be there. Lastly choppy app animations still exist when switching from app to home screen and from home screen to apps as well as switching between apps or when going g from lock screen to home screen. As if the bug is trying to worse to the phone.

I have the same problem on my 8 Plus. I updated the phone to iOS 11.1 and it still happens but a little less. What I am trying right now to see if the issue will go away is I have reset my settings. I am giving it a week to see how the phone behaves.

I removed my widgets and so far so good. It’s so nice to see my clock on the lock screen! I had no idea how much i even used it until a few weeks ago when this frustration happened. Thanks for the advise!

Same here. This was the updates that was supposed to fix it but it didn’t at all. It still

Happens. So what I am doing that works for one of the issues the bug is causing is I reduce my widget count to keep the lock screen stable. As for the jittery animations, jumbled notifications and the one cent in a blue screen flicker, no solution.