The bad news for Apple’s flagship iPhone 16 Pro devices has been piling up over the last few days.
Just last week, reports surfaced about some iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro users experiencing excessive and unexplainable battery drain. Many of those complaints centred around the iOS 18 update which was reportedly depleting battery power.
In some cases, much of the battery drain happens in standby mode when the iPhone isn’t in use, suggesting a background activity could be causing problems for some users, according to MacRumours.
Now, further complaints about the iPhone 16 Pro are cropping up and this time they relate to the UI freezing and its camera app.
As Digital Trends has reported, its reporter has repeatedly run into a non-responsive screen issue with the iPhone 16 Pro.
Reddit and the official Apple Community discussion forums are filled with similar complaints about issues relating to overheating (apparently related to the battery drain) and random freezing, especially within the camera app.
One of the recurring issues is random restarts of the device, such as when it is being charged or even when the devices are being used.
Others are also reporting a general lag throughout the UI and buggy animations, something that isn’t remedied by a system restart. Also, sometimes pressing the Power + volume button is failing its restart protocol.
As for the camera app, multiple users have shared videos of the camera app freezing while zooming in, or while hunting for a focus lock. Some have even found that the app crashes while clicking a picture.
“I have found that when I try to take pictures with my iPhone 16 Pro Max, it won’t take pictures and the Camera app crashes,” mentions one of the users on the Apple forum.
Others have reported that while editing, especially Live Photos, the Photos app automatically closes midway through editing and also discards whatever changes were made. For others, capturing 4K videos has been the culprit, while some have reported that ultrawide videos are making things go awry on their iPhone 16 Pro, thereby showcasing a wide range of complaints that aren’t restricted to just a few functions of the device.
“So, I’m on my second iPhone 16 Pro within five days and still having the same issue — not being able to edit Live Photos if I change the key photo,” wrote one user on the Apple Community forum. A forced reset doesn’t rectify the issue too.
For a few users, even Siri, Settings, and other native apps are throwing up issues for them. Third-party apps including Amazon are also reported as being glitchy for some iPhone 16 Pro users.
“It has been crashing constantly. The settings app and the calendar app are the worst culprits. Calendar just freezes, you cannot drill down to the day. The settings app just turns black and then crashes. Multiple times the whole phone restarts,” says a user on the Apple forum.
Some users are also reporting lags with the built-in keyboard, and in some instances the keyboard just refuses to type in words, even though the keycaps have recorded the touch strokes.
Apple has yet to acknowledge the iPhone 16 Pro issues and release a fix for any of the latest issues that users are reporting.
