Whereas some individuals are absolutely loving their new iPhone 16, many customers have been troubled since their launch final month by a severe bug inflicting their telephones to freeze, ignore contact inputs, after which randomly restart. Nevertheless it seems like the top is lastly in sight, with the rollout of a serious software program replace which is known to comprise a repair.
As Macworld reported in September, quite a few iPhone 16 house owners have complained of show “useless spots” which, if touched, trigger the whole display to grow to be unresponsive to faucets and swipes, and the telephone to restart. Not each unit is affected, however there have been sufficient studies to get Apple’s consideration: on Reddit, on MacRumors’ boards, and on Apple’s personal Neighborhood pages.
For a worryingly very long time, Apple didn’t seem to have observed or was unable to unravel the issue. iOS 18.01 arrived on October 3 with out affected house owners noting any enchancment (certainly I can verify that my iPhone 16 Plus, which at present runs iOS 18.01, had the issue this morning), whereas as of its seventh beta, iOS 18.1 didn’t appear to comprise a repair both. Nevertheless it has now been confirmed (by way of MacRumors) that the general public launch of iOS 18.1 will patch the difficulty. That is formally talked about within the replace’s launch notes, which emerged yesterday alongside the discharge candidate.
Why did it take so lengthy for such a severe bug to get mounted? Possibly Apple’s software program division has simply been busy as a result of this has been one thing of a cursed replace cycle. Solely final month iPadOS 18 needed to be pulled after bricking the M4 iPad Professional, whereas the Apple Watch confronted a mirror picture of the iPhone 16’s drawback when customers reported “ghost touches” earlier this 12 months.
iOS 18.1 is predicted to roll out on Monday, October 28. It’s simple to replace your iPhone; merely open the Settings app, go to Software program Replace, and observe the prompts. The replace accommodates different patches and fixes, in addition to new Apple Intelligence options for the iPhone 16, so it’s properly value putting in at your earliest comfort.