iPhone 16 Pro Max Screen Occasionally Displays Glitch Lines

I see too, on the bottom of my screen mostly. I think it glitches the whole screen out but it happens so fast that I never get a good look at the whole screen. Mine looks like a defect in the screen maybe. But it only does it when switching apps or on screen wake up. Its like white lines with tiny black green and red lines running vertically. It seems like a software thing but who knows? It seems like quite a few others are having similar issues. My touch screen is sometimes unresponsive but that doesn’t happen often at all.

Update: 18.1.1 is working ok, it is not happening to me since I’ve updated.

what I’m having troubles with is with apps freezing, like telegram, but it’s the only app I have that does that so it might be just that one. So I’ll wait for an update to come and find out.

other than that the screen glitches are gone for now, even with the always on display activated.

Same issue here! I bought new brand iPhone 16 pro max last week and I noticed this problem on the display when I unlock the phone and sometimes in some apps but it happens randomly. I noticed also a ,, animation when I switch from the widget page to the main page. It seems like the refresh rate is lower than 120 hz.

I am with iOS 18.2

I hope it could be a software bug and not hardware.

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I bought a one terabyte 16 Pro Max and transferred to green my data from my 14 Pro Max. The glitches started from the get-go. Would be totally random and very quick. But still very annoying. I messaged apple and they said to return the phone since the new update didn’t fix anything. I returned the phone transferred my new data and the glitches are still happening. Must be a software thing. I will try to turn off the always on display.

i checked on my wife’s iPhone 16 pro max 256 white and she doesn’t have this bug…

it seems like this is not a Software bug, but defective batch of screens… if it’ll be software, everyone would have faced with this issue

Mine is 256 pro max and i have same issue. For me it is happening while scrolling. I am going to request replacement as not all people reporting the issue and apple store is clueless saying they haven’t face this issue

Unfortunately, the same problem. Glitching lines appear for a second after unlocking iPhone using Always on display.

iphone 16 pro max, 256, iOS 18.2 (22C152)

What is annoying, that you even don’t understand, is that problem massive or not. And you don’t even have an idea, can you easily change your phone to a new one or not.

because it seems like changing the phone in stores doesn’t help.

and what is even more annoying, the fact that this problem is so old, but still exists and will exist in the future updates.

You buy the highest price iPhone and have the highest range of problems.

Very very sad.

However, I noticed that the bug appears only and exclusively when the always on display is activated with the “show background” option disabled.

Hoping for a bug fix. In the meantime I solved it by reactivating background option.

I tried AOD on and off, the issue is still there. I think issue is with refresh rate. It occurs based on content you are browsing. For me it comes frequently on x while scrolling through tweets and less in other apps

I'm experiencing the same problem here. My iPhone 16 Pro Max is randomly experiencing screen glitching sometimes, and I don't know what caused it. I bought this phone brand new and haven't dropped it since I first purchased it.

So should we all go and change our iphones? Because somebody wrote that replacement did not help and the new iphone was with the same problem. Did you show the problem when you were in the Apple Store? Does Apple know about this problem?

I am facing the exact same issue right out of the box, and I was in the Facebook Messenger app when I first noticed it. My brain straight away went to thinking this is a hardware issue. Later, I realised it could also be caused by bugs in the display driver. I had a chat with Apple support. They asked me a bunch of questions and told me you could take it to an Apple Authorised Repair Center where they could inspect it and maybe offer a replacement. I am not very keen on getting the display replaced on my brand-spanking new phone. It hurts my heart. If they are going to give me a brand-new replacement, I am okay with it. I was waiting for a software update to fix it. Yesterday, I completed the 18.2.1 update. While the phone software feels smoother, I have today noticed on two occasions random flashes of vertical lines. This time, white in colour. I have seen in the past all colour combos. Green white, mix, etc. I am still unable to pinpoint if it’s a hardware or a software issue. A software issue doesn’t bother me so much.

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Same problem here. I hope it's a software bug and Apple fixes it asap