Some iPhone 16 Professional customers have found a very annoying bug, the type that you simply wouldn’t wish to see on any premium machine, not to mention an iPhone. The handset can crash and restart out of the blue, with no repair in sight.
It’s the form of bug that solely Apple can repair, contemplating it’s impacting a number of customers. Fortunately, the approaching iOS 18.1 launch won’t deliver simply the primary Apple Intelligence options, it’ll additionally repair this difficulty.
What’s unusual, although, is that I’ve skilled the problem myself. It occurred on the iPhone 16 Plus that I purchased in late September. I’ve solely encountered the problem as soon as, however one thing bizarre occurred with the restart. The iPhone forgot some current information I had saved on it. Particularly, photographs I had snapped proper earlier than the restart had vanished.
Saturdays are often one of many days of the week once you choose up your racing package when you’re a long-distance runner. Since I’m coaching for marathons, I’ve scheduled half-marathons races earlier than the principle occasion to get within the zone.
There I used to be on a wet mid-October afternoon, juggling a few luggage, an umbrella, and the reasonably massive iPhone 16 Plus. After I picked up the package, I snapped a number of photographs of the map for the venue. It’s the identical info you’d discover on-line, nevertheless it regarded higher on the bigger panels.
Plus, I had one other probability to begin the digicam from the Digicam Management button after which faucet the show to take an image. That’s proper, I nonetheless take pics the old school method, however that’s a narrative for a distinct time.
Three photographs taken, iPhone 16 Plus is again in my pocket, and I’m on to my subsequent vacation spot. Gotta catch a prepare from a close-by station and avoid that pesky rain.
I’m in a distinct metropolis, so I take out the telephone to rapidly scan Google Maps to see if I’m on the correct path towards that prepare. That’s after I see an unfamiliar pop-up message telling me that the iPhone restarted due to an issue.
“Do I wish to ship a crash report back to Apple?” No, I don’t wish to do this proper now; I wish to rapidly test Google Maps whereas I’m additionally clumsily holding this umbrella to make sure I don’t miss my prepare as a result of I took a improper flip someplace.
I didn’t suppose to take a screenshot of the error message, that’s how irritated I used to be at the entire thing. I didn’t even suppose an excessive amount of of it on the time, seeing as I’m operating a beta model of iOS 18.1. Who is aware of what went improper, and I didn’t essentially wish to determine all of it out.
Keep in mind these three footage I snapped after choosing up my package? Just a few hours after the iPhone 16 Plus crash and restart expertise, I used to be in search of these footage to plan my Sunday morning. I wanted to know precisely the place the beginning and end had been and the right way to get there and again.
Think about my shock to appreciate not one of the three photographs had been saved. I didn’t delete any of them, they usually weren’t within the trash. I checked.
The iPhone 16 Plus someway deleted these photographs completely when it crashed and rebooted. I don’t know how quickly after I took the photographs, the telephone restarted by itself, nevertheless it will need to have been instantly after that. Lower than 5 minutes later, I used to be out on the street, in search of instructions.
Was it a digicam bug? I can’t say, and we’d by no means know. Regardless of the info loss, it wasn’t too large of a deal. I merely went on-line to the occasion’s web site to seek out the knowledge. Additionally, I blamed it on the iOS 18.1 beta.
This occurred a number of days earlier than experiences of iPhone 16 Professional crash and restart occasions appeared on-line. That’s after I related the dots. I haven’t encountered the bug earlier than or after that single time when the iPhone 16 Plus restarted.
The one proof I’ve is a niche of precisely three lacking pics within the Pictures app. All I’ve to do is take a look at the filenames, that are chronological, to see that three photographs are lacking. The identical hole within the numbering scheme would have appeared if I’d have deleted the three pics. However once more, that was not the case.
It wasn’t a giant deal within the grand scheme of issues, because the pics I misplaced are about as beneficial as screenshots. They weren’t photographs I’d have wished to avoid wasting. Nonetheless, seeing the iPhone unable to avoid wasting footage due to some error is deeply irritating. I can’t recall something like this having ever occurred to me.
Hopefully, the ultimate iOS 18.1 launch will repair any points. Although, once more, I used to be fortunate to solely expertise a single compelled restart as soon as on my iPhone 16 Plus.
