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Green streaks and killed iPhone 13 after iOS 26 update?

iOS 26 Update killed my phone in the spring, no troubleshooting at all works!

when I updated my phone, I set up a Home Screen, and after about a week it was constantly HOT to the point I felt like I would get literally physically burnt, and would turn it off. It became extremely laggy and when I restarted it, green striped appeared. At first it was a few, and I changed my Home Screen from the green pic I had up, and it got worse quickly. The green streaks quickly took over my whole screen, slowed my phone way down to loading even a typed word took about ten seconds.

i tried one more time to restart it in march, and it died and would not come back at all, fully dead with no charge indicator or buzzing or anything. It’s been cold ever since.

I have had an android and now I’m on an iPhone 7plus trying to recover what I can, but no computer registers the 13, and I cannot pull photos of my since passed dog, or almost three years of my life.

I am extremely disappointed in this :/

Posted on Sep 21, 2026 4:41 PM

4 replies

MadreMonster Author

Level 1 (4 points)

Sep 22, 2026 9:05 AM in response to lobsterghost1

Absolutely not, my battery consistently ran at 89% capacity, and was purchased brand new but not at time or release. The phone was used for like two years tops. Obviously a phone purchased and run for five years would have a dead battery. My battery had zero issues, this is a known issue I’ve seen now with many searches, that the “liquid glass” and enhanced optics are run on a new chip on the latest phone when ios26.0 released, and it being backward compatible is actually killi mg the display you by running at double capacity. If you took a moment to read what I said fully, you would tell that it is not my battery, (I now know it is in fact very healthy but no longer connected to the rest of the phone according to my friends Mac!)

lobsterghost1

Level 10 (233,174 points)

Sep 21, 2026 4:56 PM in response to MadreMonster

What you've described is the result of a failing battery in your iPhone, which would pretty expected in a 5 year old phone with the original battery. Had you looked in settings, you'd surely have seen a notification that battery service was needed. If you didn't act on that, your phone eventually will fail. That's unfortunately on you. And if you can't save photos after a phone fails, it means you weren't backing up your iPhone, which is also unfortunately on you. There's no magic wand for data recovery after something goes wrong if the data wasn't being backed up.

I'm sorry you're disappointed, but this was all completely avoidable.

lobsterghost1

Level 10 (233,174 points)

Sep 22, 2026 9:11 AM in response to MadreMonster

MadreMonster wrote:

Also, the data was being backed up, to my cloud, but apparently the password I’ve been using ten years of my life for Lock Screen isn’t correct and it fully locked me out of my iPhone 13 information.

I'm confused, if you had the right passcode, could you use the phone? I got the impression from your first post your phone died? If it died, it's either have the phone fixed or get a new phone. As long as you were backing up to iCloud, you can restore your data to either your fixed phone or new phone when you get it.

MadreMonster Author

Level 1 (4 points)

Sep 22, 2026 9:06 AM in response to lobsterghost1

Also, the data was being backed up, to my cloud, but apparently the password I’ve been using ten years of my life for Lock Screen isn’t correct and it fully locked me out of my iPhone 13 information.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256362273