iPhone 16 Pro Max - Touch Screen Sensitivity Issues

It doesn’t work.

The only workaround is the new update wich will really fix issue , or a new phone wich wont have defect , since we dont know is this issue software or hardware

and now apple guys will delete my sentence :)

***update***

So the haptic response everyone thinks is a work around doesn’t actually affect the touch sensitivity of the screen. It just decreases the time it takes for the long press to partially open another window or select a different character on the keyboard.

I also wanted to see if since it’s a software issue, maybe installing the screen protector while the phone was off then booting it back up would make a difference - it didn’t. (The idea being that if the screen uses an electromagnetic field to determine pressure and touch, maybe the settings during initialization would respond to an extra layer of screen being present, whereas the palm protection is being engaged due to the screen protector being placed on while the phone was on and that was causing the issue)

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I changed the haptic touch to fast but definitely there is an issue still there. What I sense is that now I need strong touches, like the screen does not have sensibility. I still do not believe that this is entirely a software issue, like them prettend us to believe.

Anyone is considering to returm it back?

I’m quite dissapointed with this issue, and even more because I cannot return the used phone case, screen protector and camera protectors :-/

@NeonBlonde: under settings search for haptic touch and change from standard to fast. That should help 😊

First thing I did was change the Haptic Touch to fast. It’s better but still no where near as response as the 13 PM. It still requires more downward force on keystrokes to get them to work.

I am running iOS 18.0.1 and do have screen protector. After the workaround I have posted, it seems that there is no touch delay any more. My phone was made in august.

To me , at least for now , your thing is giving some improvement. It is better.

What is your build , when is your apple made , and do you use screen protector???

I used this workaround and it works fine for me.

Just go to your settings and search for „haptic touch“, then change from „standard“ to „fast“. This should solve the problem for now 😊.

Same issue here.

iPhone 16 Pro Max. LOT of touches not registered, and a clear laggy keyboard.

I’ve directly started with 18.0.1 so I don’t know how it was before. I’m quite surprised to read that it was even worst than now.

If this is not solved in the next 10 days, I’ll return the device, which is a pain for me because I already wasted 1 day to re-organize my personal and work phones.

PS: I’ve had to edit this message two times because after reading it I realized that there were missed characters.

So true. It makes me frustrated to even want to type or search something without using voice text. Which I’ve never used before.

same here same here. Now I use voice to text. And that now is also lagging. It took me forever to type this.

After the new update 18.01 . I’ve been using voice text and now the voice text is lagging too and the keyboard sensitivity.. it’s still slow. Does anyone have any info of another update about? It is gonna come out or Apple knows about it that is still going on.? I swap from iPhone 13 to the new one and I wish I had kept my old phone.

Definitely experiencing sensitivity issues.

Really didn’t have them without a screen protector but now after having installed different ones, the keyboard sensitivity is terrible.

Seems like a software issue since all the outlier keys including return and space bar are extremely laggy and force you to press way too hard while typing.

I did notice an improvement without the protector but this needs to be addressed by apple.

Night and day between my 13 pro max and 16 pro max.

Super annoying especially since I use my phone a lot for work.

Apple needs to run an update that fixes this issue and maybe add a sensitivity setting for the keyboard.

spending way too much money for this phone not to work exactly how they promised it would.