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When your iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro is stuck on the lock screen and won’t respond to your inputs, that’s something serious, it can be a software glitch or a broken screen. While trying to unlock the iPhone using Passcode or Face ID, the screen remains unresponsive, is that what you’re facing? That time is long gone when we used to remove the battery in such cases.
Coming back to the problem, we have prepared several potential workarounds to deal with iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro stuck on lock screen. Ensure that your iPhone is fully charged.
Fix iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Stuck on Lock Screen
Press Power Button
If not yet, then press the Power button several times, that’s the simplest way to unfreeze the iPhone. When iPhone keeps lagging and freezing experts recommend restarting the device as it closes all the background running applications and restores the processors. All of these helps lifts up the load from iPhone and when there’s no load on the system, it will work smoothly.
Press and hold the Power button until the Power Off slider appears, and drag the slider to turn off the iPhone.
Force Reboot iPhone
When the normal restarts fail to fix the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro stuck on lock screen, it’s time to force restart the iPhone. With the slightly different methods and effective results, most of the time force rebooting the iPhone deals with major issues without wasting much time.
- Press and quickly release the Volume Up button.
- Press and quickly release the Volume Down button.
- Press and hold the Side button until Apple logo displays,
Let the iPhone boots completely, later you can check if the issue still persists or is gone.
Get Yourself a Call
You can ask someone to give you a call on your iPhone, for some folks, this trick has actually worked. Since, upon receiving any call, the iPhone screen wakes up and might respond to your touch. Try this once, or if it doesn’t work, jump to the next step.
Restore iPhone via Recovery Mode
If the above solutions didn’t work out for you and iPhone 14 Pro is stuck on lock screen, we cannot do anything but restore the iPhone to its factory settings. Keep note that doing this will delete all the data including your photos, videos, contacts, etc. If you have a backup then you can restore it to get back the data.
- Connect your iPhone to Mac/PC using a lightning cable.
- Tap Trust, if it pops up on your iPhone.
- Launch Finder (macOS Catalina or later) / iTunes (macOS Mojave or earlier).
- Press and quickly release the Volume Up button.
- Press and quickly release the Volume Down button.
- Press and hold Side button until the Recovery mode screen appears (a Computer + Cable).
- Choose the iPhone in the sidebar of Finder or on iTunes.
- Select Update, if this works to fix iPhone stuck on the lock screen then well and good otherwise, choose Restore.
TunesKit iOS System Recovery
Don’t have time to visit Apple Store or the iPhone is out of warranty? Try TunesKit iOS System Recovery Tool that comes at only $39.95/year for 5 iDevices/1PC, or if it is a short-term requirement, you can choose $29.95/mo for 5 iDevices/1PC.
No matter whether your iPhone is stuck in recovery mode, DFU mode, iPhone stuck on the Apple Logo, the black screen of death or anything, TunesKit iOS System Recovery is one solution to recover the iPhone from any software flaw and prevent data loss.
iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro Lock Screen Unresponsive
Force reboot iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro to close all the background running programs and apps which is affecting the performance and hence it is stuck on lock screen.
iPhone Stuck on Lock Screen and Won’t Turn Off
iPhone stuck on lock screen after update and won’t turn off? Sometimes bad updates cause such problems and the only solution to fix is to restore the iPhone.
Why is my iPhone showing locked?
For security reasons, your iPhone gets locked after the 5th incorrect password attempt consecutively. And if you didn’t input an incorrect password, then it might be a case where iPhone is frozen on the lock screen. Read the article thoroughly to fix the iPhone stuck on the lock screen.
Why is my iPhone frozen on the lock screen and won’t turn on?
iPhone stuck on the lock screen can happen if you have dropped an iPhone or firmware is continuously crashing in the background. To fix this, ask someone to call you, or Force restart iPhone and in the end, restore the iPhone in recovery mode.
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