My wife’s iPhone 16 Pro is not turning on. Several times I have had to push the top volume, bottom volume and then hold the right power button until the Apple came on. And it took much longer than 10 seconds and instead of it coming on by itself, the Apple would show only after I held and released the power button. Did she get a lemon or are others having this problem? She gets a new phone every year so this is not an operator error.
iPhone 16 Pro
Bought two new iPhone 16 Plus. Did update to iOS 18.0.1. When one phone was turned off and charged overnight, it would not turn on this morning. So far I am trying the force restart multiple times and I have plugged it into a different charger no beeps. Also I plugged it into my MacBook and no beep and not showing up on Finder. This is bad. This has never happened with multiple iPhones over the last several years. Phone $1000 and it does not work after a few days. Ugh. Afraid to shut down the other phone and fear that it will also not be able to be turned down.
hold it for longer than 10 seconds and it must work hope apple can fix this
As soon as I clicked into iTunes, it went on.
If the phone won’t turn on, how did you get to iTunes?
After trying all the different suggestions, this one did the trick.Thanks.
The Force Reset posted several times will ALWAYS work unless the device has a hardware problem.
My daughters IPhone 16 is the same takes a few attempts to get it back on
I wish I’d never have gotten rid of my old phone. It worked perfectly. The iPhone 16 sucks. I never turn mine off anymore cause you can never turn it back on. What a shame. 😥
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I did the up/down button and restart and it finally worked and I will not leave it on charged all night!!!
My iPhone will not turn on; it’s less than a year old.
Thank you so much. This worked for me. I also tried all the tricks before this which didn't work. Mine is brand new so I hope this doesn't happen again. Thanks again!
This is the best solution and worked on the first go. Careful and follow exactly as he say
I have had my new 16 pro max for a week and I have had the same problem after turning in off for charging last night. I have had an I phone for over 15 years and never had this problem before.
iPhone 16 pro Max here. This happened to me this morning. I usually switch it off and charge at night. Took me about 10 minutes in frustration to finally get it switched on. Had to force start 3 times.
I’m really hoping this is a bug and will be fixed in the next software update and not my phone. These things ain’t cheap 😅
Same here. The only thing tech support told me is to reduce the battery charging to 80% and therefore not able to use optimized battery charging. Also to only use the supplied USB-C cable NOT the Apple MagSafe I have used for years and try that….either way it’s not good! As you say these are expensive phones.
looks like you have the opposite problem to me. Mine charges on both but if I use the wireless I have to do the vol up/down reset…and at that very slow to start. Also can’t charge to 100% or I also need to do reset start. Hopefully Apple is reading these posts and working on a fix….seems like a spreading problem!
iPhone 16 Pro not turning on
