iPhone proximity sensor problems

This fixed the issue for me:

Go to: Settings/Display and Brightness/View and change your view from zoomed to standard. This will also allow your home screen icons to change to landscape view which is pretty cool.

Either restart your iPhone or go to Settings -> Messages and turn off Raise to Listen. Problem solved. You can turn

it back on if you want.

I tried to link to the original post but this is from someone else and it worked for me.

The reboot is the only thing really mentioned here; but it has NOT resolved the issue on my iPhone 7Plus. The screen blacks out when you cover over the proxmity sensor and the voice message that you started to play stops playing. I've upgraded, rebooted (cold boot) and the same thing happens. My phone is on Verizon. The only way I can listen to voice messages is turning the speaker phone on. My commute associates don't like me doing that.

5S, same problem after desperate iOS update hoping for fix of ringtone/message tone silenced during day at work in another city. New problem. Accidentally updated later again and acquired the hypersensitive proximity detector problem (about 1.5”/38 mm).

Updated to 12 hoping for fix and prox.sens. prob is gone, but silent tones problem still present and now speaker phone repeatedly turns on for incoming calls, sometimes ignoring touch screen command to turn it off.

2 cans & a string or Android phone might be a solution. I want my phone to work without software repeatedly ‘breaking’ it with new things I don’t want or can’t disable.

Maybe I got old all of a sudden...but I’m not senile...I can make that can or Android choice. Verizon & Apple are ‘unaware’ of such problems according to Verizon rep on phone last night.

Hey, there’s always snail-mail, right?

I had this same problem after a iOS 11.3 update on My iPhone X. A force or soft reset seemed to fix it.

hard reset helped! hold home and power button untill restarts ! done

What is the solution to solve this getteing annoyed...😤

same problem hire 6s after update to11.3

Im also having the same issue after update ios 11.3

The answer to this has been posted more than once and several people (including myself) attest that it fixed the problem. Care to tell us whether or not it fixed it for you? 😤

Force restart your iPhone. Dude answered the post a few days before you.

This solution seemed to work for me. I restarted my iPhone 6 and it resolved the proximity sensor issue.

Glad it helped.

Giulio

I did update on my iPhone 11.3 today this morning it seem strange : too quick of an update didn’t not show apple line going across no apple symbols nothing like that..

Thanks it worked for me !!!