This is a follow-up to my post last week after my iPhone 15 Pro began constantly rebooting. This happened after it had done an automatic update to the system software.

I surrendered the phone to the folks at the Apple Store’s “Genius Bar” around 6 pm on Thursday, December 28. Even with the long New Year’s weekend, the phone was ready for pick-up at the Kahala Apple Store on Friday…yesterday. I was able to pick it up this afternoon. The repair was covered under warranty, since the phone was less than three months old. It was returned with a new serial number, which I suppose means it’s internals have all been replaced.

I launched the process of restoring it from an iCloud backup, which so far is going smoothly. But it’s not fully automatic, since many log-in credentials have to be reentered or verified.

Apple had provided a loaner, and transferred by cell phone service to the loaner, and then shifted it back to my phone when I picked it up at the store. At least that went very smoothly. Back when phones were, well, just phones, that would have been the whole story. Now, not so much.