Sleep mode settings crash

Further to Focus settings crash! - Apple Community which is yet to be resolved… I am and have been experiencing this same issue for the past 6 months. After a number of IOS updates (currently 17.4.1) this has still been an ongoing issue on my iPhone.

Accessing any focus mode in settings apart from “Sleep” is fine and works as expected. However when clicking Settings > Focus > Sleep, you are immediately faced with a black screen with a small whirling icon in the middle. This screen can last ranging from 1 second to 2 minutes. After eventually disappearing you are no longer able to access the settings app at all without the same black screen reappearing. Even a restart of the iPhone doesn’t fix this. The only way I have found to regain access to the settings app, is by attempting multiple times to long press the settings app on the home screen and use one of the 4 shortcut options.

Using my iPad to remove the sleep focus completely and then reset up on my iPhone still doesn’t fix the issue. The reason I require this function to work, and the reason I am unable to get around this by setting up the focus on the iPad is an app that I’d like to bypass the sleep focus and still notify me isn’t available on the iPad and therefore not an option to be selected in the app exclusion list.

This is becoming evermore frustrating each time this happens and not something I feel someone spending over £1,000 on a phone should have to be faced with for such an extended period of time where multiple updates have been done to supposedly fix bugs like this.

Any help towards getting this resolved would be greatly appreciated.