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

UPDATE: After fixing the gravity sensor, my cellphone sent multiples of a message to someone. Then I got a few bizarre keystrokes again, not as crazy as before - so I went again to the Verizon store & got more help this time. I was told that imessage is often the problem for both issues. From "Settings" (on iphone 4) she turned off imessage so that I'm just using data to text. Apparently that's the real problem because now it seems to work OK even with the gravity sensor back on.

I Created an account to let everyone know that disabling imessage did work for me as I had the same problem as described in this thread. I also have iMessage enable as well and do not have the problem anymore. What I did was disable imessage as "franamo" stated above (problem still acurred). Let the phone sit for 10-15 minutes on sleep mode. I logged into my phone and enable iMessage, and the problem was gone. That's it. Hopefully this helps someone.

Ps: The problem accured after I did the update to my iPhone 6 plus. This was happening even if the phone was not plugged into the charger. But now it's fixed

Thanks franamo

This is really interesting. I recently moved my workshop into an old warehouse in Queens. Almost all of the electrical work had to be pulled out and redone (save for the panel). I noticed immediately after spending time in there that my iPhone6 would act VERY weird whenever plugged in. It would charge, but usually when I touched the screen it would act like it had it's own agenda. It didn't matter what charger, cord, whatever, AND OTHER SMART PHONES acted strange too (including a samsung). This happened even with new outlets installed.

Today we grounded the electrical panel to earth (this was done with an 8-foot-long grounding rod driven into the ground—which should have been in place already) and the problem seems to have disappeared.

So if you're having this problem, maybe you have a grounding issue! It could be the device itself, the charger, or the actual electrical supply!?

The other thing to mention is that this building is very close to a 50k watt AM radio station, and I wondered if the lack of ground in the electrical supply combined with residual (induced?) current from the station could have caused this erratic behavior.

Any electrical engineers out there wanna take a stab at this?

I've had the same problem since about the second week of owning the phone I noticed one until about one bar of reception it triggers this crazy possession not always know when it first happened to me I didn't have the phone plugged in I can have it happen in different locations in different cities that show me one bar of reception and somehow it triggers perhaps because it's struggling with cell connection not sure but when I put it in airplane mode the problem goes away when I turn it off airplane mode in that same location it comes right back. I've also had it happen when it was plugged in but that's not the only time. Because I do development as well I was able to submit a bug report to Apple which their engineers looked at all my video footage that I created and my logs and then they said your book report is closed maybe you should think about taking it to a service facility. I'm currently escalating the problem I'm working with an advisor I was able to duplicate the same problem on my father-in-law's iPhone 6 Plus

I Have the exact same problem. Gravity sensor and imessage fix dis not work for me. I have been using my charger for a few months since i bought the phone with no problem. Until recently. I thought it was just my phone. But then i had the same problem almost at the same time as my ipad air. Using the original charger as well, it wont respond properly when connected to it. Both my phone and ipad works fine with a third party charger! But bot with their original charger! Weird huh? I dont know if its because of the latest update. All i know is they we're working fine with these chargers until 2 days ago.

My iPhone 5s used to react as if more than one finger were administered on the screen while long pressing the screen (could be easily noticed while rearranging the icons in the homescreen). I had this problem while I was charging my phone (original charger) and was using a hard case for my 16 GB iPhone 5s. I tried charging the phone without the hard case and it worked perfectly. I then put on a silicon cover and now also it works perfectly.

Does anyone on here have an Otterbox phone cover? I've found that the touchscreen on my iPhone 6 is being randomly accessed because it's sensitivity is so high. When I removed my Otterbox everything works fine.

Same phone, same computer - and same issue just started.

I wonder if its the cable and/or the lightening port - as for the last 2 days I've been plugging the phone in either to the laptop, or to a wall charger and it's not necessarily started charging.

I Have been having the "ghost clicking" problem on 5 different iPhone 6s Plus iPhones in my house! I finally figured it out! We have a metal roof and the tempered glass screen protectors that I bought for my phone, my wife's phone and our 3 teenagers phones all had some type of metal edging so when we got into the car or near any metal buildings our iPhones went crazy! Calling People on thier own texting surfing the net ect! I Took my screen protector off and no more problems- I bet this also applies if you have any type of metal case! So glad it's fixed I was ready to throw a $500 iPhone out the car window!

I bought an ipad mini 2 years ago,and an Iphone 5s the next may of the same year. Because both cable and chargers looks the same, I keep the Iphone original cables and charger in its box "NEW" and never used.

Today, I connected the Iphone ,as same as always do, and started to see that acted really weird and odd but just when connected. So, i decided to Unpack the "NEW" cables that came with the Iphone and it worked flawless. I think the cable brass lighting flat pins are starting to worn out after two years of usage. The Ipad mini still works flawless with the old cable and I haven't see this problem.

I hope this helps to anyone who reads this thread. Cheers!

I'm not sure if this is the same issue or not.....

When my iPad Mini 2 is charging in the car, I have problems ONLY with the keyboard. And this happens ONLY when charging in the car - it doesn't happen if it's charging on my laptop.

1. Pressing and holding the "backspace" button to erase text will erase only a few characters and then suddenly start adding random letters.

2. Autocorrect stops working

3. Neighbouring keyboard keys will respond to my touches

No other problems like people are describing about opening apps and stuff.

I mean the on-screen keyboard. I thought it might be the charger, but then, why isn't this happening on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5c I also own and charge in the car while typing....

(Sorry, I should have mentioned those additional facts in my original post)

This happens with my 5s also. But only when connected to the iMac. It doesn't act weird when it's connected to the wall socket. It happens both on Apple original and non-Apple USB cables. I never had this problem on my 4s.

I am using iPhone 6 plus and I am also facing the same problem whether it's on charge or not.

It's doing random stuffs, clicking on the apps when I'm not doing anything. I am facing this problem for quite sometime.

It ll be nice if this issue could be solved.

aish72 wrote:

I am using iPhone 6 plus and I am also facing the same problem whether it's on charge or not.

It's doing random stuffs, clicking on the apps when I'm not doing anything. I am facing this problem for quite sometime.

Those are the symptoms of a failing digitizer. Take your phone into Apple for evaluation.