Apple to fix iPhone 18 Pro Face ID bug
Home > Tech Apple to fix iPhone 18 Pro Face ID bug The issue is real, but Apple's working on it. By Stan Schroeder Stan Schroeder Senior Editor Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you.
- ▪Home > Tech Apple to fix iPhone 18 Pro Face ID bug The issue is real, but Apple's working on it.
- ▪By Stan Schroeder Stan Schroeder Senior Editor Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007.
- ▪He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 28 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ If Your iPhone 18 Pro Is Randomly Rebooting, There's a Fix Coming — Lifehacker
- ▪ Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Bug Fix Update is Coming Next Week — MacRumors
- ▪ iPhone 18 Pro Face ID rebooting bug to be fixed in iOS update — AppleInsider
- ▪ Apple says software update to fix iPhone 18 Pro rebooting bug is coming next week — 9to5Mac
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| Original publisher | Mashable |
| Canonical URL | https://mashable.com/tech/apple-iphone-18-fix |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:21:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T10:35:32.170Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T10:35:32.170Z |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Home > Tech Apple to fix iPhone 18 Pro Face ID bug The issue is real, but Apple's working on it. By Stan Schroeder Stan Schroeder Senior Editor Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything. Read Full Bio on September 25, 2026 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Is this causing your phone to freeze? Worry not, a fix is coming. Credit: Stan Schroeder/Mashable After some iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max owners started complaining about a weird bug that reboots their phone, Apple has acknowledged the issue, and a fix is coming.
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