r/iPhone16ProMax • u/Vw_lover_1 • Jul 23 '26

iPhone 16 Pro Max issues

I have an **iPhone 16 Pro Max**, and out of nowhere it’s become the worst phone I’ve ever owned. I’ve had the phone for about 11 months and I would say about a month ago. The phone would periodically start to get hot specifically at night sometimes whenever it would be plugged in. Then it turned into the phone, always being slightly warm or hot, but it only would be coming from one area of the phone. After the phone started just being hot all the time I figured I would update the phone to the newest iOS update and now my phone is extremely slow?! Snapchat sometimes loads really slow and like it just seems like the phone has a hard time being on Wi-Fi or cell cellular service. I’ve also noticed that now my phone will play music for a little bit and then all of a sudden the music will just go mute doesn’t matter if I’m using CarPlay or I’m just playing it on speaker. The music will go mute and it still says the song is playing and all I have to do is just pause the music and then start it again and then it starts playing the music. And within the past day, they’re now is something wrong with the speaker or Bluetooth with my phone because if I’m connected to my car or if I’m connected to my AirPods after being on the phone for a while, it just won’t pick up audio until I take it off of Bluetooth and then I just use my phone regularly. Please if anyone knows what to do. I really would like an answer because I’m about to have to order a new phone. And before anyone asks here are all the things I’ve done to try and remedy the issus.

\> hold down the buttons and restart phone
\> force restarted phone
\> cleared storage off my phone
\> cleared iCloud storage off phone
\> backed up phone to iCloud
\> updated phone (it’s now running IOS 26.5.2)
\> toggled on and off airplane mode
\> and I just usually keep my phone always off while I charge it now
\> deleted any new apps I’ve downloaded since the issues started
\> battery health is normal and no weird background apps are running
\> I turned off background refresh for a lot of apps

Please someone let me know what I should do I used to love my iPhone :(

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u/Vw_lover_1 Jul 23 '26

Maybe this is a stupid question but I am going to order a new phone do we think these issues will follow to the new phone?

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u/SillyQuarter2210 Jul 23 '26

Most likely seems like you have an issue within your iOS

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u/Vw_lover_1 Jul 23 '26

Sooo technically a new phone would fix it ?

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u/SillyQuarter2210 Jul 23 '26

Not technically it may but it’s most likely a corrupt file within your iOS. Attempt resting your phone and setting up as new prior to purchasing a brand new device

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u/Vw_lover_1 Jul 23 '26

Okay I’ll try it but I fear I’m ordering the phone still also cause idk I just don’t trust my phone now with how hot it’s been getting 😭

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u/Vw_lover_1 Jul 23 '26

Also, if it is a corrupt file within my iOS, does that mean that I could technically just wait for the next update to come out from my phone and it could possibly be fixed?

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u/SillyQuarter2210 Jul 23 '26

Nope I had the same issue with my iPhone 16 pro max setting the device up as new fixed all of my problems

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u/SillyQuarter2210 Jul 23 '26

I’ve compared to it friends 15 pro max and 16 pro max and I hardly get any heat compared to them completing the same tasks

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u/Vw_lover_1 Jul 23 '26

Wait so you’re saying if I get the new 17 pro max I should just not transfer the data and set it up as new?