An rising variety of iPhone 16 Professional homeowners are reporting intermittent points with their telephone’s touchscreen responsiveness. Customers expertise faucets and swipes seemingly being ignored, which impacts varied interactions like scrolling, urgent buttons, and missed presses on keys on the digital keyboard.
Primarily based on our testing, reader stories, and a rising variety of on-line complaints, the difficulty seems to stem from a software program bug, fairly than a {hardware} fault. Particularly, iOS’s unintended contact rejection algorithm appears to be overly delicate, inflicting meant touches to be ignored.
It seems that customers are inadvertently triggering the system to reject touches by making unintentional contact with different components of the display.
Some customers report explicit points when their finger is resting close to the Digicam Management, on the right-hand of facet of the display, although the issue appears to have an effect on all 4 display edges equally.
When this occurs, the telephone’s software program usually ignores all new touches on the show for a short time frame. That is what causes the meant faucets and swipes to be missed. This habits is clearly demonstrated by Khaos Tian in a submit on Mastodon, though in observe, the finger resting on the display might be extra subtly positioned.
The problem could also be exacerbated by the iPhone 16 Professional’s thinner-than-ever display bezels, which makes it simpler for the person’s pores and skin to inadvertently contact the sides of the show. As you solely want a small sliver of pores and skin to the touch to set off contact rejection, it’s attainable to be on this state with out realizing why it’s occurring.
The problem can come up when a person naturally grips the telephone, with their fingers wrapping across the sides of the system. The problem is extra more likely to happen when the telephone is used and not using a case, as it’s simpler to unintentionally relaxation fingers over the slim display borders. With a case on, it’s more durable (however not unattainable) to do that.
The issue happens on iPhones operating each iOS 18 and the iOS 18.1 beta. We’re comparatively assured that Apple can handle the issue with a software program replace.
Notably, the issue doesn’t appear to happen when the system is sitting dormant on the lock display. It solely manifests when the telephone is unlocked, similar to when scrolling by way of apps or swiping between residence display pages. This additional means that the difficulty is software-related, not hardware-based.
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