Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down

MojoKid writes: Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus were two of the most highly anticipated smartphones to launch so far this year. The excitement surrounding Apple's new refresh cycle flagships was so great that Apple reported record first weekend sales, with 13 million devices finding their way to customers. However, it appears that some of those customers are having a puzzling issue with their brand new iPhones. Owners are reporting that their phones are turning off randomly when left alone — even when the smartphones have sufficient battery remaining. "New Phone 6s 128GB turned off for no reason the last two nights," wrote Joachim Frey in an Apple discussion thread. "In the morning you then have to push the power-on button for a long time to get it started."

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First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sent by my iPh

Not a bug, a feature

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not a bug... I think it is due to safety reasons... Apple wouldn't allow any device go out of the factory like this... They test them for this kind of things...

It has to do with some security feature... Probably some group of hackers is trying to exploit some vulnerability... which is bad from Apple... but still it is good to know that the devices power off themselves rather than silently hacked... Although I wonder what is happening to the other devices that are not powering off... Probably those have different firmware and are invulnerable to that? Anyone knows? Could Apple give different devices to different people to test something? You can never know what these guys are trying to do...

So no... I think this is not a bug, it is a feature that prevents the phone to be hacked... although there is no kernel panic as reported in macrumors...

Lack of Fondling

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Clearly the phone is just unhappy at not being fondled constantly, since most people can't put the fucking thing down for more than 2 minutes.

The phones detects that the owner, err, sorry- the "renter" isn't constantly touching, fondling, and using the device, and after 10 whole minutes goes into "Snit Fit" mode where it sulks.

10 minutes after that it goes into the "Why You Don't Love Me Anymore" mode, and after a final 10-minute grace period it decides that it's been abandoned for a newer, shinier wife, errr, I mean "phone", and shuts down in a fit of rage (but not before posting to Facebook that you smell, have a tiny dick, and hate your mother).

Re:Lack of Fondling

[willworkforbeer]

Clearly the phone is just unhappy at not being fondled constantly, since most people can't put the fucking thing down for more than 2 minutes.

Careful, you'e talking about my precious.

Re: First Pest!

[TheRealHocusLocus]

C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. Powered off I mean.
C: Look, matey, I if me mum canna call me at night the phone is deaad. I know a dead phone when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he turn 'imself off the moment I got 'im home?
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable display and feaatures idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The features don't enter into it. It goes dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's just off is all. Such a dimwit h'ta come in to the store to learn how ts turn a phone on? Gaaarsh.