ios9 update -> now touchscreen problems

Ever since I updated to ios 9, my iphone 5s touchscreen is acting crazy. The accuracy of where I touch or slide vs. what the iphone thinks I did is completely off. The phone seems to have a mind of its own too, it starts opening apps and stuff when I'm not even touching it. Then other times it freezes completely for 5-10 minutes. It is nearly impossible to shut it off because it won't swipe when I initiate the turn off screen. The home button works fine. Every once in a while the phone will act normal for like 15 minutes and then it goes crazy again!! Anyone else?? This just started a couple days ago after I did the ios 9 update.

iPhone 5s, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 21, 2015 9:02 AM

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Oct 21, 2015 12:19 PM in response to TheGlobeSeries

It actually doesn't say anything about this problem at all.


Apple's full release notes are below:

  • Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos will automatically not record these movements
  • Over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis
  • Improved stability including CarPlay, Music, Photos, Safari, and Search
  • Improved performance while in Multitasking UI
  • Fixes an issue that could cause Calendar to become unresponsive in Month view
  • Fixes an issue that prevented Game Center from launching for some users
  • Resolves an issue that zoomed the content of some apps
  • Resolves an issue that could cause an incorrect unread mail count for POP mail accounts
  • Fixes an issue that prevented users from removing recent contacts from new mail or messages
  • Fixes an issue that caused some messages to not appear in Mail search results
  • Resolves an issue that left a gray bar in the body of an Audio Message
  • Fixes an issue that caused activation errors on some carriers
  • Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from updating from the App Store

Oct 21, 2015 3:29 PM in response to jumpmantnb

I swear - until i read your message - mine was working fine! 😉


Now its back to square one - right hand side of keyboard not working correctly - and huge delays in typing, or in general typing its own thing! Soo Frustrating!

I have turned TouchID back off - and done a hard reset of phone - hopefully it will at least get it back to were it was at least a little manageable.

Oct 22, 2015 2:18 AM in response to beecccca

Now my phone is bad. Touch screen make own things or freezing all the time. If I write to message, phone would open some other program to screen or cursor going somewhere else. If I can, I want to downgrade my phone back to ios 8. I hope that Apple can do something about this problem. Phone change is not a option, because problem is really ios 9.

Oct 22, 2015 12:11 PM in response to beecccca

The same problem happens to my iPhone 6 plus.The phone opens Apps,settings,putting passwords,write messages even making calls.

I contacted apple and was told to restore to iOS 9.0.2 as i was using iOS 9.1 beta 4,but did not solve anything!

When I was using iOS 9 beta before official release to public everything was fine.Now I hate my phone and blame apple too!

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