Patrick, that is exactly what my Mother's problem was. I saw your post after I made my comment, and had my mother go back in and edit the text back to the standard, and that completely fixed her problem. She had edited the text size to a larger size so that she can see the screen without her reading glasses. As soon as she put it back, it worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
Apple, this is an issue that needs to be fixed. Not everyone has perfect vision, and older people need to adjust the text sizes to help them see. My mother has an iPhone 6+ which is a little easier to see, but my father is still using an iPhone 4.
Patrick, that is exactly what my Mother's problem was. I saw your post after I made my comment, and had my mother go back in and edit the text back to the standard, and that completely fixed her problem. She had edited the text size to a larger size so that she can see the screen without her reading glasses. As soon as she put it back, it worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
Apple, this is an issue that needs to be fixed. Not everyone has perfect vision, and older people need to adjust the text sizes to help them see. My mother has an iPhone 6+ which is a little easier to see, but my father is still using an iPhone 4.
Ok, I found a solution that worked for me. If you go to Setting>General>Reset>Reset All Settings it will reset to default and then reboot. During the reboot it actually reinstalled or repaired iOS 11.1. So there is a possibility that my original upgrade had a problem but it let me operate anyway. All back functions now work and performance is back to normal.
Hope this works for others.
Alan
One last thing. Since you mentioned you have an 8, go to settings > display & brightness > display zoom (its towards the bottom of that page) does it say standard or zoom?
Also do you have any font accomidarions enabled like bigger text size or bold text?
If it continues to be an issue I would try reducing the text size by one notch and see if that helps? Or set the screen to standard instead of zoomed. I suspect the screen size is too small for the larger text on the screen which is why it may be a problem. I hope that helps you a little bit and thanks for replying!
Hi. It could be your messages data updating after a software update. Close the app and reopen it or rebooting the phone will help.
My 6s started this back button bs with the first 11 upgrade. Back then i tried the soft reset and it didn’t do anything other than i had to spend a week tweaking my phone to get it back to normal. Very frustrating to say the least. One thing that works for me is swiping the back arrow instead of just pressing it.
Hi. Try rebooting your phone first.
I'm having the exact same problem since downloading the new iOS update for my iPhone 6+. Shutting the phone down and restarting it is the only way to get to the home page of the message ap. The back arrow just pretty much never works anymore.
Jeff
I have the same issue on iPhone SE iOS 10.3.3. Thanks for the comforting thought that this is not a hardware failure from a defective device. I bought the iPhone SE yesterday, and I installed a drawing app to make sure touchscreen worked, and it did perfectly. I also could reproduce the same failure on my work-phone, which is an iPhone 5s iOS 10.3.2.
My guess is the 'mapping problem' (difference between touchscreen and LCD) is a software bug that could come from apps being developed mainly for the larger screens nowadays, and then converted back to 4.7 inch. This was a thought I had when choosing this smaller sized iPhone SE: in future more and more apps will be designed mainly for large screens.
Since I downloaded the latest IOS on most apps have to press the back arrow a few times. Facebook doesn’t let me like anything unless I press it a few times and can’t use the “new”back to another app button until I hit it a few times.
Not a big deal but annoying.
iPhone 6 with iOS 11.1. Not only is the back arrow not responsive it will also bring up a cancel or edit dialog. There is something really wrong here.
I regret updating to 11.1. Mail and other apps are also really slow.
Yes! Very frustrating. The back button does not work. I have to swipe completely out of iMessage and go back in to send an iMessage to another person.
Not just in SE. happens on iphone6s after the latest update.
Same problem here on iPhone SE. I thought it was due to the size of the "<" button not recognizing finger touches, because when there are unread messages (and therefore a larger area button) it does not seem to have this problem. Other apps though use the same "<" button, in the same location, without issue.
Me too on an iPhone 6+
Come’on Apple... this appears to be an issue affecting many users... and a problem that should not be hard for Apple to fix. You had it working before.
Here’s a little more info (as if you really need it before you decide to fix the problem or not)... When tapping the back button in a text message conversation the iPhone behaves somewhat like the “edit” button does on the screen listing text message conversations. On my phone I am even able to catch the phone displaying a pop up window that momentarily displays the word “edit” when I tap the back button when in a text message conversation window, yet leaves me (the window/app) still in the context of the text conversation.
Is this another instance where Apple will neglect their existing products to adversely impact their customers in an effort to drive revenue and new product adoption?
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