iPhone won’t boot up and Apple logo remains on screen? That’s a boat run!
Your iPhone won’t boot up and the Apple logo is stuck on the screen? We at ThePhoneLab have recently been seeing more and more of this problem and are happy to help you solve it.
What is a bootloop?
If your iPhone boots up and it gets stuck continuously on the Apple logo, this is called a “bootloop. Booting up an iPhone is called the “boot” in technical terms, and because it tries to do this over and over again, it is called a loop. A bootloop occurs when there are problems with your iPhone. No matter what you do, the Apple logo remains continuously on the screen. You can try doing a reboot yourself. If your iPhone still doesn’t boot properly, you have a bootloop.
When does a bootloop occur?
A bootloop usually occurs when there is a hardware problem in an iPhone. Consider, for example, water damage or a battery that is broken. There is often no option but to repair this before an iPhone can boot normally again. Lately, we’ve seen a bootloop pop up more and more out of nowhere. By this we mean: your iPhone was working fine the day before and the next day it’s suddenly in a bootloop.
Did your iPhone spontaneously go into a bootloop?
If your iPhone spontaneously went into a bootloop and you’re sure you haven’t done anything crazy to your iPhone (think dropping it or water damage), chances are there’s something wrong with the software. The software is corrupted, preventing your iPhone from booting and shooting into a bootloop.
How to handle a spontaneous boat run?
With a spontaneous bootloop, we recently assume a software error first, rather than a hardware error. At ThePhoneLab, we have software tools to repair the software on your iPhone. We have two ways to fix a software error.
- First, we always try to repair a corruption of your software WITH preservation of data. This option works in many cases if there is indeed only a bug in your software AND there is enough space on your iPhone. Read below why this option is not always possible.
- If the above option does not work, we need to wipe the entire iPhone to write new software on it. With this option, the data can NOT be retained. This option is often necessary if there is a persistent software bug in your iPhone OR your iPhone storage is full.
We encourage you to stop by one of our stores so we can get right to work on getting your iPhone out of the bootloop. Make an appointment directly below or stop by!
Your iPhone won’t boot and the apple logo stays on the screen: is there a connection to a full iPhone storage?
Based on the information we have gathered recently, our answer to this is “Yes!” In almost all iPhones that spontaneously shoot into a bootloop, the iPhone storage appears to be full. That is, with a full iPhone storage, the notification has appeared several times. A bootloop when the iPhone is full is also well explained. An iPhone runs on software called iOS. Your iPhone is constantly writing away data to run properly. If the storage is full, the iPhone can no longer write data so it will no longer function.
Why is a software recovery with data retention not always possible?
A software recovery with data retention requires sufficient space on the iPhone to be free. This is necessary because the entire software must first be transferred to the iPhone before it can be installed. If the iPhone storage is too full, the software cannot be fully transferred to the iPhone. It is then impossible to do a recovery with data retention. Deleting the iPhone completely so that there is enough space is the only option.
OPINION!
The urgent advice from us is to be wary of full iPhone storage at all times. Very simply, avoid it by always having 20% of the total capacity available. A full iPhone storage can cause problems within a very short period of time with, at worst, loss of all your data. Backing up all your data is also definitely recommended! Click here to back up your iPhone.
