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Why is the top left of my iPhone screen blurry?

Hey guys I woke up today and a part of my screen was blurred, when i lock the phone it goes away, when I unlock it it’s there again,

anyone had this problem?

I’m using iOS 14.0.1


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iPhone XR, iOS 14

Posted on Oct 6, 2020 11:08 AM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2020 1:51 PM

My wife’s iPhone 12 had the same issue. Just toggle the zoom display in settings and it will go away.

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Oct 12, 2020 9:51 AM in response to soss96

Greetings, soss96!


Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities! It sounds like you have an issue with the screen on your device being blurry in the top corner. Let's start by following the steps in this article to Restart your iPhone and then see if the issue is still going on.


  • Is the screen blurred when you open apps as well?
  • Does the blur happen on all the home screens?
  • Does it happen when you change the wallpaper as well?


We look forward to hearing back from you and hope you have a great day!

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Dec 29, 2020 10:02 AM in response to Helperhelper12

Not sure how to replicate it, but I encountered the same issue. A potentially easier secondary way to fix it (without going into settings) is as follows:

Turn your phone so it’s oriented in landscape mode. Then pull down from the top to open notification center, then swipe from left to right to open the widget page of notification center. And that’s all there is to it lol


Because that’s what fixes it, I suspect it’s a bug having to do with the landscape widget page in notification center.


For any Apple devs, I’m using iOS 14.3 lol

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Dec 8, 2020 9:38 PM in response to Brian_P7

I had the same issue and when I restarted my phone my sound went out I can’t listen to music or play YouTube videos because my sound is not working I have my volume set to the max and have my ringer on and I tried restarting my phone again but I still couldn’t get any sound

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Jan 1, 2021 10:06 AM in response to soss96

Started getting a similar screen a couple of days ago. Blurriness seems to be Home Screen related. Used the BOLD Letters solution mentioned earlier to get rid of the blurriness, but the fix lasted until the screen was rotated to landscape.

To remove the blurriness for good (or at least until the next apple update), I removed all of the widgets on the Home Screen. No more blurred screen, even after rotating to landscape.

However, when screen is rotated to landscape, I see the Home Screen Search. I can live with that for now.

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Jan 8, 2021 1:50 PM in response to Brian_P7

JUST started happening this morning.

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14.3

Tried the Display & Brightness, Light/Dark fix and that works until phone is turned to landscape mode, then the blur comes back.

Restarted and for a few minutes, it hasn't come back.



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Why is the top left of my iPhone screen blurry?

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