iPad Air 2 touch sensitivity problems

I can report that I'm noticing the same thing. Seems that if screen doesn't get any input for ~10+ seconds, the next tap isn't registered. That isn't always the case as I found myself going through a settings reset, and going to reapply my settings, and finding I had to double tap within a second or 2 of the last input.

So it somehow varies. There was another report http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1809995 - that may be a 8.1 OS issue. Not sure if that is the case or if its more noticeable on the Air 2.

You sir are a genius! Had this problem ages, went to apple, they could get to the bottom of it. Found your comment, and interestingly i realised it happens when I have my iPad plugged into a charger in the kitchen. Unplugged it and bam, stopped happening! Thank u I was going crazy!!!

I can definitely second this. I'm currently setting up an exhibition with various iPads and all iPad Air 2 that are plugged in with a third party usb power plug show touch sensivity problems like very unsmooth scrolling, missing touch inputs and such. As soon as we switched the USB power plugs to original 10 W USB Power Adapters from Apple, the touch input improved drastically.

Hi After 2 Days my New iPad Air Had a lot of problems so I Returned iPad for a Full refund When I played music on IPad Air the screen Viberates And the sound is not very good. I did a test played a track on new iPad Then played the same track on iPad 4 The new iPad was viberating even at low volume The iPad 4 sounded fine. Also when Typing I got a tingle through my fingers like static Also wifi a bit hit & miss kept dropping out I would NOT buy Another IPAD AIR 2 It's to flimsy I will buy a iPad Air 1 the model that cane out last Christmas We have one in the family and its a lot better than the New ipd Air 2 Cheers Brian

Update. I found the culprit of the problem I was facing.

I've had an iPad 2 for years and recently traded it in for $$ towards an Air 2.

I work from home and have an after-market Brookstone USB charger. Had my lightning cable plugged into it and the problem was noticeable shortly after reaching 100% charge.

As soon as I disconnected, problem went away.

So yesterday, I swapped it for the power charger that came with my iPad air 2, and saw no problems.

I tested again this morning with the Brookstone, and same issue came back. Swapped back to the Apple charger and problem gone.

I used the Brookstone all the time with my iPad 2 with no issues. So there something different in the charging.

I have another aftermarket USB charger, and I don't see any problems. Its an iXCC 2-port 4.2 Amp (20-watt) charger.

At any rate. Good luck.

I also have been experiencing this problem big time with my new iPad Air 2. Screen sensitivity is poor in all apps, and keyboard misses keystrokes about once out of every five key strikes...which is a lot. My most robust example of poor sensitivity is hitting the compose email button in the mail app. On average I have to hit it five times before I can compose an email. All other iPad models I've tried with iOS8.1 seem fine in terms of sensitivity. The other strange thing is the keys on the virtual keyboard don't highlight when struck. It makes it hard tell if they've registered a strike. Is this a new feature? I'm going to return the new ipad unless I can find a solution.

My iPad Air 2 is having the same problems lets hope apple fixe this for good and soon!!!

I am messing keystrokes when i use it on a 2. Part charger (EXIBEL 2.4 A)

I've got it too. It seems pretty random to me. It could be anywhere in the screen and it happens for taps and swipes.

I've pretty much decided to tough it out until iOS 8.1.1 or 8.2 and then if the problem still exists (which I suspect it will) I'll take it back. I'm dreading that though usually when I try to test it it behaves perfectly - then when I'm just using it normally it'll start playing up again.

Oh and FWIW, I've only been using the charger that came with it.

SSame here, touch sensitivity issues are very strange! Look at the misspelling in my first word. It's not me, it's the iPad air 2. It just repeats the mistake every time! And than the wifi problem So! (Look another mistyping, how nice) I will wait for iOS 8.1.1, if it doesn't sort the issues I will give it back.

bought two air 2 last week and both are having touch issues. Open browser and try to click on search results and nothing happens, but if I scroll the page up and down then touch the search link then it works. In other apps the touch is spuratic and doesn't respond until 10 to 20 seconds then it will work. Very disappointing! Also getting long delay on page refresh, and it's not an issue with my network, I'm getting +50mbps speed test results on my iPad.

Update: After performing a reset (erase all settings and content) twice, and reloading all apps from iCloud, the keyboard and touchscreen are now working as expected. Touch sensitivity seems fine. I now think there is no hardware problem (at least with mine), but that the software is unstable. My only remaining problem is the one Ragilpin mentions with Safari. Sometimes pages don't show up until you move the screen, and also, sometimes clicking on a link doesn't work until you move the screen up and down. I expect this a software bug that will be fixed soon.

When i bought my iPad Air last year i used it for long awful months till apple fixed the apps & safari crashes, Lets hope history doesn't repeat It self this time with iPad Air 2! I did a full reset and the problem is gone for now but this isn't a solution, Apple needs to fix this immediately, After these long years shame to see IOS less stable than android and windows phone.