Iphone 6 touchscreen/keyboard issues

I had a similar problem where my phones display would not be responsive at evenings and weekends I spent much time of day and night looking into this issue, turning this on, turning that off... in the end I figured; the mail settings were crashing the phone, I deleted the mail app from my desktop and replaced it with a similar client and my phone is absolutely fantastic now!

I too, had a challenge with my keyboard lagging. After restoring several times I was given a replacement phone. I set the phone up as new but when it did a back up the problem returned. I have two Apple ID accounts. One account does not have any back ups and so I used it as a primary instead of the other account. I have not had a challenge with the keyboard since doing this.

I have the same issue, but as far as I can tell, only in landscape mode (on an iPhone 6 Plus). At times, it's completely fine, at other times, it makes the phone completely unusable. i think it is the same problem you described, i.e. the screen becomes completely unresponsive for a couple of seconds. But the device is not "hanging", it is really just the screen not registering inputs.

I tried to write this post in landscape mode, but it's completely impossible. Can't scroll on the page, can't get a single letter out of the keyboard. Zero screen response.

I believe this is an iOS 8 bug, and therefore not a hardware malfunction luckily. After updating my iPad 4th Generation to iOS 8, my keystrokes and everything were extremely laggy. How I fixed this issue, I am unsure, as I believe it fixed it self after not long. Try restarting your device (turn off device completely, do not do a fresh restart).

Also check your new phones available storage. Apple devices require about 2 GB free to function properly.

Well, I restarted, and for now it seems fine. But I feel that the issue popped up after longer use. I would have noticed it otherwise in my first frantic usage tests. 😁

Note that it is not lag though. The screen is completely unresponsive. Nothing works. Not just the keyboard. Nothing. Sometimes it recovers after seconds, sometimes it doesn' recover at all.

I had this problem. Did a hard reset which has solved it. Hard reset = hold sleep and home button together until screen goes black and apple logo comes on (don't let buttons go until you see the logo).

Unfortunately, hard resets don't fix the screen unresponsiveness issue for me. It seems it's a hardware issue. Oftentimes, taps are not registered. It's more frustrating when typing on the keyboard when not all letters registers so you always have to hit backspace which itself doesn't always register ARGH! I have a genius appointment on Monday :-(

I was seeing this problem too. I turned-off Reachability and that appears to have "fixed" it: General > Accessibility > Reachability

For me, a restart fixed the issue. I am typing this on my 6 Plus in landscape mode, which was completely impossible before the restart. Would be nice if you could post the results of your genius appointment though.

I am having an issue with the keyboard as well on my iPhone 6. Only in landscape mode, the keyboard is completely unresponsive in iMessage. Other apps it works fine, ie email and such, it will work fine in landscape mode. This tells me it is a software bug - but I guess I will have to wait for the update which, historically, should be rolling out in a couple of weeks.

Check that - the entire screen is unresponsive - nothing at all works.

Jackiepanpan you're spot on. Disabling reachability sorted it, and means I no longer hate my new phone. Thankyou

i noticed it started messing up after the restore so I just restored all settings and I was good

Hello all,

Yes - this is just what I am having too! The bottom left and right and top right of the screen is totally unreliable and about 2/3 of the time is unresponsive. I have to tap 3 or 4 times just to get it to work. There is no lag - just doesn't work. Arg!!!

Anyone who can post help that would be great!