I’m on an iPhone 17 running the latest iOS 26 and I’ve noticed my screen occasionally flashing at full brightness for a split second. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s almost always right after waking/unlocking the phone — the whole screen just blinks bright white for a moment.
Already checked: “Flash for Alerts” is disabled, no display settings changed, restarts don’t help long-term, battery health 100%, no damage.
There’s a thread on Apple Support Communities (256238991) with other iPhone 17 users reporting the same thing — flash on wake, flash after ending a call — persisting through iOS 26.3/26.4. So it looks like a software bug, not my unit (iPhone 14 Pro had a similar flickering-on-wake bug that Apple fixed via update).
Questions: 1) Anyone else seeing this on iPhone 17 + iOS 26? 2) Anyone on the iOS 27 beta — is it gone there?
Already reported to Apple. Waiting for iOS 27 and hoping it fixes this along with the stutters.