iOS 16 Touch Screen Problems

iOS 16.0.3 released. But I'm not touching this one until someone (with a lot of time) makes sure this fix the problem and doesn't make it worse (again).

My iPhone XS still crippled. Roughly every 2 days or when playing game the touchscreen suddenly unresponsive. I must force reset my phone. Movement with swipe gesture off feel lagging. But this condition a bit better than lagging swipe to home/multitasking I mention above.

we all here love to use an iphone and trust me when i say it's not an option for us to use any other phone for us. with that in mind apple should know that even when we use third party spare parts on their products we are using now later we are willing to upgrade to a better iphone. all am saying is they should fix this screen issue coz we r not going anywhere. i mean i just upgraded from an iphone 7 to 7+ to an x now in the space on now year.

iPhone X, bought 2nd hand, so I don't know if the screen it's original or 3rd party, iOs 16.0.3, but the problem it's the same, the screen stop responding, namely after making a call.

Have anyone tried to update to iOS 16.1 beta?

This appears to have fixed my wifes iPhone 8. When she typed it was really random, and when tapping an icon it would long-press, and all sorts of craziness.

I just went into;

Settings > Accessibility > Touch and then followed the steps above (they are slightly in the wrong order).

I have a 3rd party screen too on my iPhone XS. I have been using the above workaround and it works most of the time. If I make a call or receive a call of more than 3-4 minutes, the touchscreen stops working and I have to force restart the phone to make it usable. Imagine if I have to switch the app during a call, it can’t be done as the touchscreen is unresponsive unless I force reboot the phone. I have heard iOS 16.1 will be released this month in October 2022. If it fixes the issue well and good otherwise I’ll have to go down to 15.7 and no more updates further.

I tried the recovery mode option, and after several hours of the recovery, the problem persist. I did turn on touch accommodation in the accessibility section of settings, and that does seem to help a little. if you want to try this, go to settings – accessibility – touch – touch accommodation

Update: Today I tried the 16.1 version doing a full restore on my mac but the touch kept failing, then I did a DFU retore on a iTunes-Windows 11 pc and my phone works again yaaaaay. Hope everybody can get their devices back to work.

I am also facing the same issue after upadating to IOS 16 after a week my screen suddenly turned green and now its not working my display is showing the green flicker apple service centre says you need to change the display now which costs 30k inr 300+ $ what should i do?

nachiket210 wrote:

I am also facing the same issue after upadating to IOS 16 after a week my screen suddenly turned green and now its not working my display is showing the green flicker apple service centre says you need to change the display now which costs 30k inr 300+ $ what should i do?

Start saving your money for the repar.

Hello guys, iOS 16.1 works fine. My touchscreen problem is gone now. It is over the air update aka direct from the iPhone XS. Not using DFU. I already disable Touch Accomodation in Setting. So far so good.

Any news from Apple when are they going to release software fix for ghost touch issue?.

i have iPhoneX . As soon as I updated to ios16.1 from ios16 I started getting this ghost touch issue. Multiple application keeps on opening automatically without touching once unlocked or when on YouTube screen zooms , video moves ahead , another window opens.no This is irritating. Not expected from Apple who sell their phone so expensive and have this critical issue but no action taken or any news released they working on fix.

Hello Nitesh,

The issue you have reported after upgrading ti 16.1 has been reported by me and others after upgrading to iOS 16. Many have verified iOS16.1 solved this issue for them.

Mostly the devices for which screen had been replaced with a non Apple provided screen (off market) were affected. I too got my screen replaced at a 50% discount because my previous screen was still under warranty and this is a defect caused by software. I had this issue after upgrading to iOS 16 and got it fixed after getting screen replaced al most a week before iOS 16.1 came out. Now I am on iOS 16.1. The new screen wasn’t affected by upgrade to 16.1 from 16.0. I hope Apple doesn’t notices it 😜

IdrisSeabright wrote:

If the screen was replaced with a part that wasn't genuine, that is more likely to be the cause of your problem.

that's what apple absolutely loves.. blaming everyone and everything but themselves..

so you ignored all those comments and the over 600 people on this thread reporting the same problem and went for the "it's your fault for not paying apple more money for repairs and parts"..

just typical.

Shareef_h wrote:

that's what apple absolutely loves.. blaming everyone and everything but themselves..

so you ignored all those comments and the over 600 people on this thread reporting the same problem and went for the "it's your fault for not paying apple more money for repairs and parts"..

just typical.

What Apple does or does not do is not under my control.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

What Apple does or does not do is not under my control.

Yet somehow you still make it your duty to be the apologist they'd be proud of.

you can clearly see that it's a common issue and has nothing to do with the user but the buggy software..