Chinese on screen immediately after the auto restart after installing an update

Yes, this just happened to me with my iPhone 13 iOS 17.1.1 update. Left phone on charge and updating. Came back a couple hours later and odd cloudy animation on screen center no characters yet. Swiped up to get rid of whatever it was and Chinese characters started scrolling across bottom of this odd screen display. I swiped to get out of it and got normal message phone had been updated. I wish now I had grabbed my boyfriend’s phone and videoed this Chinese display before getting rid of it. Concerned it may be spyware.

I’m new to the community and can only see questions about other people’s IPhone showing Chinese after latest update. How do I view an answer please ???

Rusty-Buckets wrote:

I just installed update 16.4.1 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. At the end of the auto restart before I could log in Chinese or Korean or similar characters started auto writing on my screen. Why is this?

It's entirely normal. This is just the 'Hello' screen- after you turn on a new iPhone or install a new update, it displays the word "hello" in various languages regardless of your device language.

Is this some glitch in the software or an app trying to do something or have I been infected with intruder software of some sort?

Nothing of the sort. Your phone is secure and you can continue using it as normal.

Rusty-Buckets wrote:

I have NO foreign languages installed

All iphones have a lot of languages installed automatically.

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