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Reply to iOS 14 Beta 2 bricked my iPhone XS
I Am sorry to comment to this thread as my problem isn't quite the same to start with but symptoms are 100% match. Yesterday, out of the blue my phone shut itself down while on the move and started to eternally reboot right after the Apple logo splash is displayed. None of the restart hints helped, always same apple-logo-reboot-loop. IOS 14.7.1 and no clear idea when was this installed (automatic updates). No beta-ios or other tweaking, just normal iPhone usage. My father helped me to come to a point where: iPhone XS Max (256gb) was wiped (factory restore) via iTunes (IOS update didn't succeed) after the iTunes reset, the setup procedure required roughly 20 reboots like this: Hello screen, Wifi password given -> reboot Hello screen, Wifi password given, iCloud credentials given -> reboot Hello screen, Wifi password given, iCloud credentials given, iCloud backup chosen -> reboot and so on. So the setup could advance little by little after numerous reboots until restore from iCloud was completed. postponed Face id, Pay and Siri setups for this test phone appeared functional for minutes of active operation with screen on and open. I had an intermediate test where I shut the phone off gracefully after the setup was done --> resulted on apple logo reboot loop again. Went through above setup-reboots again. Now started testing what happens when screen is locked. Every wake up (power button press) resulted in a reboot and phone starting back to passcode query. I can log in and phone stays operational as long as I keep screen on and open. I did this ca. 20 times, every time same behavior. As Face ID was mentioned here, I enabled it. After it was successfully set up, I locked the phone and wake up resulted in reboot, but this time notorious eternal-apple-logo-reboot-loop style. Perkele. Square one again. What you think? Is it a hardware fault? To me it starts smell like one..
Aug ’21