iPhone 12 Pro Max New iPhone 12 Pro Max Interesting thing. It starts the phone, but flashes once the apple logo starts and then disappears

[Vegas33139]

Confirmed. The flashing logo on forced restart is fixed. I just installed 14.5 beta. The first thing I did after install was to do a force restart - all fixed.👍

Now - just waiting for a fix for this pesky Wi-Fi drop out on my 12 pro max. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[bmuellerleile]

Confirmed upgrading to 14.5 beta and then rolling back to 14.4 working without issues.

 

[sherifelzarkawy]

Any updates for this issue?

 

[bmuellerleile]

Any updates for this issue?

Update all above. Issue will be resolved in 14.5. Or update to 14.5 beta and roll back to 14.4.

 

[shahzaibmalik]

Update all above. Issue will be resolved in 14.5. Or update to 14.5 beta and roll back to 14.4.

How to Roll back to iOS 14.4. Me also having same issue

 

[jonbravo77]

Almost reminds me of doing a PRAM clear on my Mac how it would flash then load.

Glad there’s a fix in the 14.5 update.

 

[sherifelzarkawy]

Is this issue solved or still?

 

[huss1]

Thank you very much all, I just bought an IPhone 12 pro max 256 GB yesterday, and I faced the same issue.
I called apple support but with no luck also, after reading comments about ios 14.5, I downloaded it and I also can confirm that now the issue has been RESOLVED
Thank you very much for all your help all.

 

[Yaboze]

I can confirm, for those interested, that today's 14.4.1 update doesn't fix it, they must be saving it for 14.5.

 

[Somesayimhandsome]

mad i replaced a perfectly good phone because of this. 14.5 must update the bootloader. then downgrading back to 14.4 to old software and newer bootloader would be my guess. so this is a confirmed fix? i didnt try 14.5 yet

 

[TimePilot]

14.5, at least the beta, seems to work; I applied the beta to my phone, then rolled back to 14.4, so far it's been ok. For some reason Apple won't allow people to mention it though on their own support forums.

 

[Stewpot1969]

I have experienced this flashing of apple logo then going off again without using magnasafe charge. Only started happening a couple of days after setting up of phone. Only noticed as I rebooted phone after activating new 5G SIM card. Phone turns on after 4 goes of pressing and releasing power button.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I have the same issue. 12 Pro Max, on 14.4.1 currently. It's annoying and off-putting. Glad to hear 14.5 resolves it; I will report back once I update to the (public) version of 14.5 when it's released.

 

[SJBranfield]

Funny you mention this. I was about to create a post for this and saw your post. I have the exact same behavior on my new 12 Pro Max received yesterday. The Apple logo is blindingly bright upon boot up and then vanishes, and then the phone starts up as normal. Have you contacted Apple about this?

*Edit- called Apple support and they are not helpful. The explanation is that OLED gets close to max brightness on boot up. Told him every iPhone I've ever had since the 4 has not done this, including my regular 12 Pro. Either the rep is just dumb or refuses to listen, or a combination.

I tried doing a DFU restore and the issue still exists. I haven't really seen anyone mention this issue anywhere by Googling, etc., this is such a random thing. I hope that there isn't a power surge at boot up causing the brightness to be at max, which could damage the phone.

It seems there was a problem with the boot loader. I had the same problem until ios 14.5 was released and installed. No problem now.