A new iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max bug has been spotted by users on multiple forums (via MacRumors), in which various numbers of green and yellow horizontal lines appear on the screen as the phones wake up.
According to the users' accounts (mostly centered on this r/iPhone Reddit thread), this problem has been occurring at least since the arrival of iOS 16.2, but there are some reports on older versions, too.
Resetting the phone doesn't appear to make a difference either, although the problem is inconsistent, not happening with every pick-up and showing a different number of lines each time. In one instance, the user claims it happens more regularly after watching video just before locking the phone.
We tried to replicate the bug on an iPhone 14 Pro Max (running iOS 16.2 (20C65)), but ours behaved normally. We also tried it with the iPhone 14 Pro always-on display turned off, but that didn't change anything.
iOS 16.3 is currently in beta, but that likely won't be released publicly until spring. Ideally, Apple will patch the problem faster than that, even if this problem doesn't seem to carry any risk to the phone from what can be seen.
Check out our full iPhone 14 Pro review and iPhone 14 Pro Max review, as well as our list of the best phones of the year based on our testing.
