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Comment by mikelyons | Hacker News Reader

You might try flattening and reinstalling the iOS cause I have iOS 11 and have experienced none of your issues.

Are you German? I only ask because I've never heard an English native speaker saying "flatten" when they mean to reformat, but I've often heard Germans say "platt machen" when referring to reinstallation.

If you're not German, it's very interesting to me as it highlights my lack of exposure.

I'm a native (British) English speaker who has used "flatten" to mean re-format.

I thought about that. I really don’t want to lose my text history, but if I have to I will go that route.

My android friends always complain about bugs on their google android phones and I used to just smile. Now I have similar problems.

Make a full backup. (If you use WhatsApp or some other app that has its own backup system, use the app to create the app-specific backup. For WhatsApp it is to back up to iCloud, I think). Reset your phone but don’t restore it from backup. Test it if it still shows the same problems. If not, great, you at least have a working phone again. Then reset and restore from backup, test again. Maybe you get lucky and it shows no problems with the restored data. If it shows problems, you can decide between a working phone without your data and a non-working phone with your data. Not the best choice but it is worth a try to narrow down the problem. Sucks that you have to do it in the first place.

I got an iPhone 8 when it came out and ive seen all the problems listed above.

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