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iPhone 14 Pro Max black screen of death issue overnight charging.
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I was having this issue on a 14P (created a thread about it).
It hasn't happened lately, I'm going to guess 16.1 fixed it?
It hasn't happened lately, I'm going to guess 16.1 fixed it?
My iPhone 14 pro max also had the black screen of death occur 2 weeks ago on a Monday morning causing me to be late for work and also left me unable to call into my work to report my tardiness.
I was running 16.1 so that hasn't fixed this issue. I had been using always on and the phone was not on a charger and was at 80% battery life. I have since turned off the always on display since i read elsewhere this could be related to the BSD. I've updated the iOS to 16.1.1 but still am uneasy using my iPhone as alarm clock to wake up by.
I was running 16.1 so that hasn't fixed this issue. I had been using always on and the phone was not on a charger and was at 80% battery life. I have since turned off the always on display since i read elsewhere this could be related to the BSD. I've updated the iOS to 16.1.1 but still am uneasy using my iPhone as alarm clock to wake up by.
Happened to me this morning. Followed these steps and the phone is revived.
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Woke up this morning and had same issue, searching online saw the hard reset fix. Woke back up. Called Apple - they said its a known issue, said it probably wont happen again, they opened a case and said if it does to call back. I've had almost every iPhone and never have had anything like this happen.
Me too . Once so far on a iPhone 11 max
Panic wasn’t the word . Makes you realise how dependent we are
Panic wasn’t the word . Makes you realise how dependent we are
Had this happen twice on my 14PM, first time it made me 1hr late for work because my alarm obviously didn't go off. Then happened again last night. I started an online chat with apple support when i woke up and this is what they said :
This happens sometimes, because of the bugs and force-restart refreshes the device and remove all the bugs.
This happens sometimes, because of the bugs and force-restart refreshes the device and remove all the bugs.
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It happened to my iPhone 14 pro max iOS 16.1.1 this morning for the first and, hopefully, last time. I connected the phone to an Apple MagSafe charging cable and Anker Nano 20W charger when I went to bed. I woke up to a completely unresponsive phone. Charging did not work. Connecting to my MacBook did not work. The force reboot worked and showed 77% charge level.
That's annoying. It hasn't happened to me in a while. For me at least, 16.2 or before had fixed it.
Since the black screen of death happened to me (while using PhoneOS beta), and I got a free replacement from the Apple Store, I haven't had any issues. I haven't been running any beta OS though.
Just had the exact same thing happen to me this morning. 14 Pro, iOS 16.3.1. Put on the corded charger (Apple cube, Apple USB-C to Lightning cable) at about 10pm. Around 1am it went black. At 8am this morning, did the VOL + > VOL - > Hold Sleep for about 20 seconds. Came back to life. As expected, 80% battery. This is the first time this has happened where it was the Black Screen of Death (semi-death). All times before that it would reboot. I'd say it's rebooted a couple times in the past month or so as I've had to enter my PIN code to unlock several mornings. Same charger every night.
Has to be a bug in the software somewhere. I wish Apple would acknowledge this.
Has to be a bug in the software somewhere. I wish Apple would acknowledge this.
I just had a phone replaced for this. New one still rebooting itself overnight. Managed to find the log for last nights event as I was unwell and awake and saw it happen. I cant make much sense of it tbh. It said it was a Jetsam event; Darwin Kernel version 22.3.0. Im very annoyed to have paid so much for a phone, had it replaced once and now its still doing the same thing. Bit ridiculous to have such a major bug.
Happened to me on my M1 12.9 iPad Pro, scared the hell out of me considering it was the first time I plugged it in with an MFI approved third party charger, but some key combination (either the vol up+down and then power) or some holding everything together suddenly made it work again.
March 30, 2023. Just happened to my iPhone 14 Pro Max running 16.3.1. Charging overnight. Did the Force Reboot and booted up to 100%. Looked at the Battery report and took a screen shot where it shows reaching 100% then a gap when it did a sudden shutdown 2:45 am to when I woke up and force reboot it. First time occurrence with the phone. Hope it doesn't keep happening because I use this for an alarm.
Mine is constantly rebooting itself every night. Most times it turns itself back on fine, but the odd time it doesnt. I now need to have a cheap alarm clock because my overpriced phone might turn itself off and make me late for work again. Its ridiculous.
Im on my 2nd 13 mini and both have had the issue. It’s clearly software related and between here and Reddit it seems that it’s pretty common
The i14PM has been a popular upgrade option in my circle. I'm going to ask around and see if this issue is common or not.