(released) ios16 broke my phone

I had the same problem with ios16 (third party screen in my iPhone XR).

I returned to iOS 15.6.1 following these instructions

Now, my Xr is ok running IOS15.7.

(Be careful you have the proper backup and follow the step by step instructions)

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This is what worked for me:

After updating your phone to iOS16, getting to the home screen and accessing Settings without being able to swipe might be challenging, as you have to somehow skip the "Welcome" screen - try Apple's hard reset by clicking volume up, volume down and pressing the side (power) button until the phone turns off and you see the Apple logo. If it didn't help, connect the phone to your laptop (cable connection) and try again. Try turning off and on 2-3 times with or without cable.

If you were able to skip the "Welcome" screen, the next step is to unlock the screen - since swipe up isn't working, pretend you are turning your phone off by pressing the volume up + side (power) button at the same time. When you see the turn off option, click "cancel" and you should see the PIN screen now. After providing your PIN number you should be able to access your phone.

Go to Settings/Accessibility/Touch/Touch Accommodations - Turn "Touch Accommodations" on. "Tap Assistance" is Off - select "Use Initial Touch Location". Turn "Swipe Gestures" on. Required movement "2x" (try other options 4x, 6x, 8x or standard - 2x works best w my phone).

Your phone should start reacting to swipe. It might be not as smooth as with default iOS15 settings, but should be pretty close, and now you can play around with other settings. Also you might need to restart from time to time. Let's hope this gets fixed with the new update release. Let me know what works best for you.

Same thing happened to me but this fixed it:

Go to settings on Iphone, press “accessibility”, then “touch”, then “touch accommodations”, turn to “on”, press “use initial touch location”, scroll down to “swipe gestures”, turn to “on” and choose “standard”.

Hope this helps for you too!

Hi, I factory reset mine and had the same issue, in the end I had to plug it into my laptop and restore it that way and it worked then used Siri to get around but the iOS 16.1 has now fixed the issue

Same here. Swipe up is gone. Couldn’t unlock my phone.

Contacted chat support, ran diagnostics-nothing wrong, instructed to restore factory setting-no luck did not fix issue. Went to local Apple store (Castle Hill, Australia), hoping it could be fixed. They suspected screen is not genuine part and placed improperly, hence, could be causing problem. They want me to pay $500 to replace screen.

Spewing! Why do i need to pay $500 for a phone that was working perfectly before the ios update?!? I don’t get it, really!

iOS 16.1 is available and that has fixed the swipe issue on my iPhone X. I can finally use my phone again!

Did you backup before updating? If so, I'd suggest a factory reset and restore from backup.

Word of advise, ALWAYS BACKUP BEFORE PERFORMING AN UPDATE!

ALWAYS, no exceptions!

Same issue here. Phone has ghost touch and is impossible to use. Tried restart/reset settings and full wipe and reload but nothing has worked. Also have a 3rd party screen, maybe part of the issue. Only option is to try going back to IOS 15 as per Marcos1972 above. Apple please release a new patch quick!!

I just upgraded to the new 16.1 patch and the screen response is even worse now. I can’t swipe up at all! The workaround with Accessibility was disabled and I had to work ~15 mins to get Siri to open up my phone and get to the settings again to activate them.

Now I’m back into my phone, obviously, but still having the same problems and they are worse after the patch!

Tes, this is exactly what happened to me (XR). I have found a soft reset (volume up tap, volume down tap, hold power button until Apple logo) at least allows me to turn it off and on again and sometimes all is well for a bit but then upward swipe goes again. No choice but to switch to an old Android and thinking about selling my Apple Watch. It’s madness!

I’m still not 100% sure all the issues I had are fixed with 16.1. The screen is definitely responding better now but earlier today the touchscreen swipe up locked after I made an outgoing call and that was also the case in every version released after 15.7.

ISO 16 update made my son’s i-phone X non-functional! Touch screen does not work. You can’t restart the phone. Ghost touch present. Non- responsive, non-functional touch screen.

I thought that too but eventually I was able to do it using Siri voice control

I've been having this issue since Monday 3rd October, and I even updated it to 16.0.2 I factory reset my phone nothing fixes the issue but for them to fix the bug