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iphone 6 randomly shutting down - black screen with spinning wheel

as of this morning my iphone 6 has randomly started black screening with white spinning icon, every couple of minutes - i have reset with power / home button; reset network settings, turned into airplane mode and switched off - HELP.


Phone is tanking after every task

iPhone 6, iOS 11.1.2

Posted on Dec 1, 2017 3:10 PM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2017 6:38 PM

I have had the same issue since this morning Melbourne time. Visited the Apple Highpoint shop and they have had approx. 50 people come in with the same issue and have informed Apple. The engineers in the shop are unable to fix the issue. Told me to sit tight for a few days until Apple comes out with an update. I have followed the advice from the clay_easton post on here. I went into Settings- General- Date & Time- Set Automatically (turn off). I kept the location as Sydney which gives me Melbourne time but just put the date back by 2 weeks. I then turned my phone off then on. This has worked for the time being and my phone has not crashed, I am now able to see my alarms in the clock App. Hopefully Apple provides a long term solution soon.

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Dec 1, 2017 9:49 PM in response to BelleC27

I reset the date and time to the Cupertino zone, and it didn't help.


Then i turned off notifications of the health app and all other apps that i can live without receiving notifications from 😝. That solved the problem for me 😉 Now i reset the date and time back to the correct setting, and it's still working fine.

Dec 2, 2017 12:32 AM in response to BelleC27

my iphone 7 plus started shutting down every few minutes from today morning sydney time. screen will become black and there is a spinning wheel.

went to Apple store, and their only at-this-moment answer was to reset the date to pre December 2 date. That temporarily fixed the issued, but resetting date back has its own set of issues.

I found a twitter disc thread, that suggests to shut off all notifications (apparently can only be done each app by app). I tried that and it seems to have worked for now.

Waiting for Apple to release bug fix update.

Dec 2, 2017 8:50 AM in response to BelleC27

As cleverly described by LCM27 (Melbourne) below (thanks), I applied the same fix and so far it seems to be successful. I changed my active date to Nov 20.

The clue for us was that both my wife's iPhone 6S, and my own iPhone SE, started exhibiting this problem shortly after midnight Dec 2.

Gonna try setting back to auto-time on Dec 3 and we'll see what happens. Or, wait for an Apple fix.

Dec 9, 2017 1:04 PM in response to BelleC27

I’m having the same problem - phone screen goes black with spinning icon, shuts down in the middle of using my apps. Rebooting, shutting phone down to rest, I even tried deleting an app that seemed to have the most trouble (The Weather Channel app) and reinstalling but nothing work. APPLE SUPPORT - PLEASE HELP. Problem started 8 Dec, 9:00pm EST in USA.

iphone 6 randomly shutting down - black screen with spinning wheel

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