Help with my Paranoia

[dasx]

Hi! I'm writing this in the hope that someone experienced something similar:

Yesterday, my iPhone 14 Pro Max went full black screen. No nothing, didn't react to anything.
I tried holding down power button, volume + power, nothing. (Didn't know safe boot was volume up + down + hold power).

I knew my phone was above (at least) 40% battery, but connected it anyways just to say I tried it.
I started googleing with my laptop, and after 5-10 minutes phone was fine. Everything back to normal like if nothing had happened.
It didn't ask for either the SIM's code or the phone's... so I'm guessing there wasn't a reboot of any kind.

Worth noting that I think I saw a notification saying that there was a new update (16.6.1) in the morning but it hadn't been able to update the phone (I don't plug it in during the night). Can't tell 100% though.

After the "incident", iOS 16.6.1 was installed... or so it says...
And as far as I know, after an update, phone reboots so it should've asked for both the SIM code and the phone's.

My paranoia is my phone is somehow compromised, specially after seeing what the update was trying to address... (spyware and such).
Has anyone ever experienced something like this?

Thanks.

 

[mollyc]

My phone (also 14PM) did that one morning when I woke up. I was traveling as well, with just my son, and I freaked out because it meant I had no easy way of contacting my husband/daughter back home. It worked fine the night before, I charged it overnight, and it was just blank/black when I woke up.

Luckily my son's phone was perfectly fine and he googled the safe boot and got it restarted for me and I haven't had any issues since.

I think it was just a random glitch. I've never been asked for a SIM code after a reboot and wouldn't even know how to find that.

 

[dasx]

Thanks for the reply, Molly!

The thing is i didn’t get to do a safe boot, it suddenly was working fine again.
Even Face ID was working! So weird.

As for the PIN, maybe you have it disabled? My phone does ask for it when booting up, I also tend to -almost- forget it though.

Also worth adding to the first post, that when this happened, I wasn’t plugged into the wall and didn’t have wifi, that’s why I find it hard to believe it was the update (specially since it didn’t reboot).

 

[Splitrail]

My phone updated automatically to 16.6.1 after ample notification, screen went black, booted back up on its own after a short time. I have passcode & Face ID turned off.
Updates don't need to be done while charging.
All sounds well with your phone.

 

[dasx]

My phone updated automatically to 16.6.1 after ample notification, screen went black, booted back up on its own after a short time. I have passcode & Face ID turned off.
Updates don't need to be done while charging.
All sounds well with your phone.

What is an ample notification?
Thanks for your input, paranoia decreasing!

 

[Splitrail]

What is an ample notification?
Thanks for your input, paranoia decreasing!

Badge on settings icon for a couple of days, then a notification on the lock screen that it would automatically update in the evening, giving me a chance to do it on my own.
Just to see what would happen, I didn't, and it did!

 

[eyoungren]

I updated to 16.6.1 intentionally yesterday. My screen went black and at that point I got up to get a cup of coffee. So, I cannot say if the 'normal' procedure of a reboot with the progress bar happened because I didn't see it. The screen was still black when I got back with my coffee and later on the lockscreen popped up. I don't recall being asked for my PIN but I think that's because another issue made that fall out of my head.

For me, the last two updates (16.6 and 16.6.1) have caused a loss of connectivity for cellular data. I spent some time futzing with it and after two reboots it finally came back (after switching off WiFi). Annoying.

So, I suppose the update could have rebooted the phone, I just don't recall having to re-enter my PIN. This has also happened with my iPad - sometimes it will update on it's own when I'm not even there.

I don't believe you should be worried.

PS, for the record, my phone is the 11 Pro Max.

 

[dasx]

Thanks for the info guys. This was a first for me and got a little worried!