It wasn't long ago that the iPhone 16 Pro became accessible and available in the market, but it already facing several complaints from its users. During the first setup, many observed that the phone froze and they have to start over again while simultaneously dreading the possibilities of lost data or a booting nightmare.
In some cases, there are also complaints about how they run into a non-responsive screen issue, prompting them to hit the lock button and start again following an unlock protocol. These stutters plagued many, especially from the camera app to the Mail app, despite switching from the beta to the stable iOS 18 channel.
Digital Trends also observed these setbacks and they were able to comb through dozens of pages on the official Apple Community discussions forums and a trove of posts on Reddit. What is becoming obvious is the repeating pattern of two major issues — overheating (apparently related to battery drain) and random freezing, especially in the camera app.
For some users, the core problem is unpredictable restarts, which raise their head out of the blue. In some cases, the phone reboots while charging without any warning, while others report that it just happens while they are using the phone. "In the process of using it, it suddenly went black," writes one user on the Apple Discussions forum.
It appears that the random restarts don’t have anything to do with running half-baked public or developer beta software. On the contrary, folks running the stable version of iOS 18 are encountering the problem. Notably, in an overwhelming number of cases, the random restarts happen multiple times on a daily basis.
Another recurring theme is just general lag throughout the UI and buggy animations, something that won’t go away with a regular system restart. But as this report suggests, the hardware shortcut of Power + volume button is also failing its restart protocol in some instances.
"Once, if not multiple times, a day — and it seems like every time I wake up, it does it overnight, and not until I unlock my phone will it push my notifications I got," says another user complaint on the Apple Discussions page. The screen going totally black is an issue that frequently appears in user reports.
But the more serious problem appears to be the camera app. Multiple users have shared videos recreating the weird behavior where the camera app freezes while dialing up the zoom level, or simply while hunting for focus lock. For a few people, the app crashes even during the basic chore of clicking a picture without any fancy tools applied.
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