Apple Abandoning TLC NAND Flash in iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus due to Crashes

[Maura]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been reporting on the issues that many 64GB iPhone 6 users and 128 GB iPhone 6 Plus users have been having with their phones repeatedly crashing and boot looping.

Now, according to a story on MacRumors today, it seems that Apple has isolated the issue, and will be ditching the use of triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash and replacing it with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash in both phones.

The original source of the report, BusinessKorea, has heard from insiders that the flash memory provided by Anobit, a firm that Apple acquired back in 2011, is the cause of the problems, and so Apple has decided to switch it out in the 64GB iPhone 6 and 128GB iPhone 6 Plus. iOS 8.1.1 is also expected to have some sort of fix for the issue as well.

As MacRumors notes, Apple has previously used MLC NAND flash in earlier iPhones.

Source: MacRumors

 

[JoeyD74]

I hope this solves it, must have had ten crashes today.