iPhone Apps and Icons Flickering

I faced a very similar issue, but not only in "charging time" but also during standard use. I bought an IPhone 7 Plus, only 4 days ago but I had this issue since the start up.

Images and icons softly disappear and long grey/ Blue/red lines cancel all what on the screen.

You need to wait 5-6 minutes and telephone starts working again. Absolutely a NOT Acceptable mess in a smartphone that cost 950 € .

My iPhone 7 Is new and total memory available is still about 90%.

I hope Apple will fix this soon. I never had similar problems with all my previous Android phones.

be careful to consider IPhone 7 Plus as the best smartphone: my actual opinion is much different and I will not recommend anybody to purchase it.

Kindly everybody that faced this issue should share his point of view about.

Greetings, Iyagawa.

Welcome back to Apple! I see that applications icons are flickering when you connect your iPhone 7 Plus to charge. I'm happy to help you with this.

If an app you installed unexpectedly quits, stops responding, or won’t open -- Even though the applications work, there are a few steps in this article to make sure they're working correctly. Test the issue after each step.
1.

Restart your device

Turn your device off and back on.

2.

Check for iOS and app updates

1. Make sure that you're using latest version of iOS.
2. Open the App Store and tap Updates.
3. If updates are available, tap Update All.
4. If asked, enter your Apple ID password.

You might need a Wi-Fi connection to update some apps.

3.

Delete and reinstall the app

1. Tap and hold the app until it jiggles.
2. Tap the on the app.
   
3. Press the Home button.
4. Go to the App Store and download the app again.
5. Wait for the app to download, then open it from the Home screen.

Let me know how that goes and take care!

Remember that there is also "cleaning" of temporary files from ios applications. iOS 5 and beyond all have this feature..

You Application Icon or icons on your Home Screen may dim briefly (looks like you tap them) then comes back to normal. During this time, your phone is deleting temporary files.

If the deleting process takes long, there will also be a message under that application icon saying "cleaning..."

If the cleaning process is short, the icon dims/blinks for a second and goes back to normal once the TEMP files are deleted.

This is a different issue and may be serious. I would take it to Apple and have them look at it.

I have a iPhone 7 Plus special red additions 256 gig Git in April as you rotate the phone icon on the docking port on the phone will flicker to Apple they could not explain they gave me a new one and the new one does the same thing have not seen this issue with any other color

I also have that with my iPhone 7, Matt Balck 128GB. I noticed that just few weeks ago and I changed my charger. Problem still remains unsolved. Its just my home screen so for instance if I play a game or watch a movie it's doesn't show up. Weird...

Hello :)

I know exactly what you mean. This is just one of those bugs, do not worry. I had the same bug with 5S 64GB, 6 Plus 128GB, and now with 7 Plus 256GB.

You should be a very observant person, otherwise you would not notice it. Very few people do.

It happens random, so it is not easy to re-create the bug whenever you want.

What happens is that some of the the Home Menu Application Icons may flick one after another, once you plug the phone to a charger. This happens very quickly. The flickering happens only once, and fast. So it does not bother me.

Also rarely, when you are returning back to Home Menu, an application icon or two may flick once.

Again these happen randomly.

What I do is that, I do not plug the iPhone to a charger, when the Home Screen is on. I put the phone in to sleep (not shutdown, just sleep) and then plug my charger. That way I don't see the flickering :)

May be static electricty, big screen is on, suddenly current entering the phone all combined may be causing it.

The important thing for you is that this is just a bug, I have seen it with many other iPhones. This bug does not affect the use of the phone in anyway. So don't worry about it.

It is not so good to have eagle eyes on computers :) Many people don't even see these thngs, and they will even argue with you that it never happens to their phones. Believe me, it does. They just don't so carefully observe the way the phone behaves like we do.

Just another bug. :)

These solutions won't help. This is a just a bug. Otherwise the applications, everyhing on iphone is working just fine.

The flickering does not happen all the time. Everthing happens in a second and that's it.

Uninstalling, re-installing you will just waste your time.

Hi,

I have the same Problem of icon Flickering on My IPhone 7.

You said that apps should be updated, but actually my Safari Browser app is also flickering when i put my iPhone on charge.

And Safari app is not like other apps to update.

It might be the Problem of Charger or Battery.

I am using original charger given by Apple.

Please reply !

Reason Is,

After hooking the iPhones, IP to Kali, and sniffing the secure traffic, we noticed that, after this flicker is done.

it was not random, it goes to all the incons you pressed in the specific order, so they can :

Track User Experience.
Statistics

Use AI, and push new updates that will force you to do stuff.

Basically - they are having access to you while you dont allow it, and proof is through the moment you update something, it sends this back to apple servers.

Hi Yaghawa,

Today I received a new IPhone 7 Plus directly at the Apple store where my issue could not be solved differently.

Thanks Apple for prompt solution even in troubles

Cristian

As you said if the application works, how do you know that it is working correctly?

When it works means it works.

I guess this is not the reason of the flickering.

I think it relates to the charger.

Have had the same issue for a long time on iPhone 6s. However, it doesn't bother me and looks funny.

Is this software related or hardware cz this is happening to my second 7 plus new from Apple

Apple please fix icons that flicker on home screen when people plug in pho