iPhone acts odd, crazy, touch screen, random behavior, while charging

douglasfrompalma de mallorca wrote:

No ifs no buts this will be my last iPhone.

You should always chose the tool that best meets your needs.

Best of luck.

What if I'm using an Apple Charger and Apple USB cable? lol

I'm getting something similar to what you're describing. I've noticed that when my phone does move on its own, it is as if the screen is being pressed in the same spot repeatedly.

I've switched positions of the icons and the position seemed to be the culprit. Today it was a different position. The new position is at the phone icon in the lower left corner. The icon was selected then the contact in that position was called.

Couple of things to note:

• First and second occurrence the USB was connected to my laptop. Third occurrence (this morning) phone was connected to a surge protector with the apple adapter and cable.
• My phone is an iPhone 6 128
• I have my phone in an Otterbox Defender case, which has a screen protector built in.

Hope this helps.

Hi

did you get amy answer on it?

unfortunately also my Iphone 5 started to have this random behaviour suddenly and independently by any charging

Quite worrying also because the random pattern looks not so random

After doing quite a lot of research on this issue -it happened suddenly just 2 days ago but spent quite lot of time to research and trying to solve it for safety reasons-i see there are not serious answers except a bit generic and more fanatics ones that are really inappropriate when an issue like this is becoming more common

tried to reset, restore, delete software, etc, : nothing happens, still same "random" behaviour

Really worrying, i have five Apple devices all connected and hope it does t spread to all of them

Who could seriously help?

(Going to try Apple genius shop but feeling it ll be just time lost as it happened to read about others with same issue)

With the next iphone 6 launch, shouldn't this issue taken more seriusly?

I tried to find out if it is happening on a charger that is not genuine Apple charger but I cannot tell. The charger for the iPhone 5S looks like a real Apple Charger.

The problem only happens after the phone reaches Full Charge and pulling the cable out stops the spurious keyboard activity

I have looked at YouTube videos showing how to tell if a charger is not genuine but that did not help. I think it is a real UK Apple charger

I have a similar issue:

- iPhone 6 Plus. iOS 8.1.

- original Lightning cable

- connected to Mac book Pro Retina 13, late 2013.

-> when the phone is connected to the mac, the screen registers touches around the area where I am actually touching. Sometimes this only results in quirky scrolling, sometimes the phone is rendered unsuable (can't touch anywhere, or phone registers touches where I didn't).

--> I can pull the cable and the screen is responsive again. Once I connect it, the phone behaves the same. A reboot did not help.

Anyone with similar issues? This sounds like a hardware bug to me.. :/

Best

Hendrik

i just got a brand new iPhone 6 it has been 3 days only since i bought it as a gift for my mom, it started to act crazy last night and today i can't even slide the **** thing to open the phone 😟 i'm going back to the store and returning the **** thing ! i am an Apple huge fan but now i'm starting to doubt their products

same here! no help, just suspect b-s like non-apple chargers etc. I had problems with my iphone 5 from the start, was told to erase and restore, did not help. thought os8 would help. nope! last night I watched helplessly as my own phone deleted an important email I was waiting for, unbelievable!

I've had this on an ipad and I'm 99% sure it's a faulty digitizer.

Sometimes links wouldn't work, sometimes apps would open and do things by themselves.

After some careful observation however, for me it was apps in a line across the middle, and spinning the ipad around I could see it was differnet apps but in the same places on the screen.

Similarly, links that didn't work or letters that seemed to be stuck, spinning it round they would work or it would be different letter.

I replaced the digitizer and fixed the problem. The home button was replaced too so I can't discount that it might have had something to do with it as it felt unresponsive.

I can't possibly say if you have the same thing of course, but that was my experience.

Regards

Finally! Others having the same issue as me. When I got my 6 Plus 128 it started doing what you describe. I even managed to do a screen recording via an app on my PC. AT&T exchanged my unit after a senior Apple rep referred me to them (I live in Puerto Rico and there are no Apple stores).

This unit just started to do the same randomly. I did notice, however, that the anomaly occurred while connected to the cable. This makes me conclude the lightning socket may be interferring with the screen or touch sensor/digitizer.

If anyone is interested in the short video I managed to record, let me know. I could email it.

I'm experiencing the same behavior with my iPhone 6 Plus--with an Apple iPhone 5 charger designed in CA and made in China--that I just used with the iPhone 5, an iPad Air II, and my iPhone 6. Once I read this thread and unplugged the charging cable, the erratic behavior stopped. The behavior was such that it seemed that someone else had remote access and control of the device.

Ok this has been happening to me since I first set up the phone, and it happens when its plugged in OR not plugged in, doesnt matter.

It started by always randomly switching apps, mostly opening the appstore. Now it types on its own, switching in and out of text conversations, and deletes text after I type it. I cant do anything without this thing deciding what actions its going to take on its own.

After reading this I move a few apps around on the home screen to see if it was the location of the appstore app, well see but I think I am going to get this thing replaced. So much for QA Apple.

I'm seeing the same thing.

My iPhone 5S is kept in a Mophie charger, which I charge via Micro USB. Hooking it up to my MB Pro Retina 15" and touching the iPhone screen while charging makes the phone go crazy. It's funny to see that when you open a new note, it will start to type random characters and do all sorts of things in the note.

This must be some current flow or something that makes the screen interpret things differently.

I may have charged my Iphone 6 plus on a non std charger.

Next day called my brother. Heard my brother's voice message so left a message.

He did not recieve the message.

Someone else got the message. They returned a call based on that message which left a message on my brother's phone and not my phone.

This just started happening to my 5S 64. Charging was/is not involved. The descriptions of it being like someone else is using the phone remotely are apt. That's exactly what it's like. I've determined that if I ever-so-slightly "flex" the phone by grabbing it at the ands and twisting (just a tiny amount) I can exacerbate the problem. I have babied this phone. It's never been dropped and spends its days in my breast picket in a BookBook leather case and its nights on my nightstand.

I've done a full backup and restore to no avail.

Weird.