iPhone 12 mini touchscreen issues

The flashlight and camera icons on the lockscreen require a tap and hold gesture to activate....not just a simple tap. This likely prevents someone from constantly and accidentally activating these features. I have had no lockscreen mentioned in this forum. Hope this helps.

Same problem here. Seems like palm detection problem with case and glass. I mean i suppose that there is an algorithm that detects like “n percent of screen is touched = there is a palm touch, ignore it “, and somehow case plus glass makes our thumb touch “bigger”, so either calibration failed on such small screen (screen is smaller but relative number of covered pixels stays same as in bigger phones) or some hardware issue making our thumb detective as “elephants”.

Im hoping for software fix (however offered exchange option, but fir what reason if every mini is bugged)

It seems strange but it is. It's funny but if I press the screen with my thumb the touch works intermittently, while with all the other fingers it works without problems... Even a friend has encountered this fact, very annoying in the notification center!

Not sure if this is any consolation, but supposedly the glass display on the iPhone 12 mini is a stronger, "ceramic" shield making the display more impact resistant. After experiencing the same issues everyone else is talking about, I found a couple of articles talking about the new ceramic glass on the iPhone 12 mini.

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-12-mini-drop-test-ceramic-shield-indestructible/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21509008/apple-iphone-12-pro-max-mini-displays-ceramic-hardened

For now, I'll just stick with the case and leave the screen protector off.

Amazing though now Apple won’t admit there’s a problem when I was talking to them this afternoon I told them to go check out there own forums then they’d find out I wasn’t the only one with the same problem they just tried to whitewash over it

I got my new IPhone 12 Mini Friday. Put on a Zagg screen protector and on Otterbox case. Was fine Saturday and Sunday started acting up Monday. I couldn’t unlock my phone. Took the case off and worked fine for abit then didn’t. I’ve been reading online. As long as you use a finger instead of your thumb works great. Called Apple and they said they hadn’t heard anything about this. It didn’t work in the Otterbox no matter what so I bought an Apple case and seems to be ok as long as I don’t use my thumb. Something is wrong with these phones. I’m hoping enough people contact Apple and bitch.

Iphone 12 pro max this issue is happening on all apps. But the min I touch the sides (metal parts of the phone) it works. It's very weird. Apple seems to know nothing about it. I hope they push an upgrade or something to corrext it

One point for the grounding related hypothesis. I have both a case and a screen protector. The case has a hole that shows the apple logo. If I touch the logo with my index finger and operate the screen with the thumb, all works fine.

One point against the same hypothesis: it happens only in the Lock Screen.

I actually first noticed it when I couldn’t swipe to answer a call (that’s right I was trying to use my phone as a phone) the workaround works for me but it’s annoying. I hope they can fix it with software.

Same issue with my iPhone 12 mini. Issue is sporadic but nevertheless there. Both camera and flashlight doesn’t work and swiping is also an issue. Hopefully apple pushes an update soon if it is indeed hardware related.

This had happen to me since I’ve been on iOS beta. This issue was never fixed.

what’s happening is the phone is trying to unlock Face ID. Well since were wearing face make it’s a little hard to do.

so the phone asks you to punch in ur pin code. Wait a second and punch it in at slow pace. It works every time.

I forget to slow my pace. My 3rd number never registers.

so much for the A14 chip and lightening speeds. When I have to slow my typing down. It’s been like this since iOS beta for me. On my iPhone XS and now today with my iPhone 12 mini.

Hmm not so sure about that. I am not using FaceID currently and still have the same issue. So I don’t think that’s quite right. But that’s crazy you’ve seen the issue in the Beta. Makes it seem it is software and not hardware related then.

I am facing the same issue. Initially I also thought it was the cover. I went back to the person I got the cover from but there when he tried it was working. And when. I tried it was working for me too. Strange that was.

But as soon as I got back in the car it wasn’t working. I cleaned my phone, and my hands. And the cover nicely and neatly and then tried, but the issue was bad.

Even while picking up the phone it was tough.

Later on I realised this was only happening ONLY on the Lock Screen and only with the thumb.

So I started wondering my my thumb(s) had an issue maybe. Googled and read about ‘Zombie fingers’, so I even moisturised my fingers ( what not for a new phone ! ). But it couldn’t be that fingers were dry ONLY for the Lock Screen.

So on the Lock Screen, with the thumb everything is unresponsive. Or rather, it ‘misbehaves ‘ , be it the camera or the torch buttons, the camera left swipe or the widget right swipe it just works according to its own mood. But only with the thumb(s).

An easy way to check if it’s working or not is try using assistive touch while the screen is locked.

hold it and make circular designs. If the additive touch is following up exactly the way your finger is going it’s fine, else it’s not.

So assistive touch too, is working properly with all fingers only if the screen is unlocked.

With a locked screen the thumbs don’t behave. Or rather the screen doesn’t behave with the thumb input.

HI All,

I faced the same issue when screen protector / tempered glass installed.

I can confirm that when i changed my screen protector to the thiner one Benks KR 0.15 or use foil protector - issue has gone.

So according to all comments i can confirm i have many silicon, plastic and leather covers and no issue with 0.15mm screen protector.

When i installed belkin or other manufacture (0.3mm) issue appeard again.

In my opinion of course Apple should take care and fix the sensifity / issue.(until that time Apple should stop selling Belkin Invisible in the store).

Mini has thiner frames around screen than normal 12 so that is why the problem not existing in 12 (normal)

But with ceramic shield the thinest tempered glass is also enough!

Just use thiner screen protector !

My case has a “hole” showing the apple logo. If I touch the apple logo with my index finger and touch the screen with my thumb, most of the times everything works fine. But not always... the only thing that actually works for me is to either remove the case (I haven’t removed the screen protector though) or plug in the charger.