Touch Recognition Issue on iPhone 5, 5th Generation iPod Touch with Rapid Diagonal Swipes

Well crap people, it's reallyquicklyscrolldiagonallygate. Apple is ruined.

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Accidental Touch

What if it's the accidental touch feature activating when you touch the edges as you scroll up and down/diagonally?

Who the F ever scrolls like that anyhow?

I suppose this could be an issue in some games where you have to swipe really fast but even still. If it works properly on the 4, but not the 5 though they should definitely fix this up for the '5s'.

ok time to return my phone

Defective models? I've replicated his test on my iPhone 5, but had no issues at all.

TheRainKing said:

Some jokes will never get old.

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"you're scrolling it wrong," however, is not one of those.

Is this really a problem? I've never done this with any of my iPhones?

Wonder if the iPad mini has this issue.

Soooooo... When do you ever actually need to do this?

If Apple comes back and says 'you're scrolling it wrong', I'd actually support them on that.

This explains the swiping problems I've been having playing He-man #

GorgonPhone said:

does apple even bother to test its devices any more... i mean if you make a damn touch screen wont you touch it in every way possible before mass producing it?

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I don't think Apple has anyone whose wrists can swipe at mach 3 like the dude in the clip.

I wasn't able to recreate this on my iP5.

Just wildly diagonally scrolled on my email - had no issue. It wildly followed my finger back and forth.

It's probably a bug in the driver for the new InCell screen. Hardware issue seems unlikely. Is the screen building up static charges that need time to drain?

JoEw said:

Worst of all it's a hardware problem.

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Thats OK. They will 'update' it in 7 months just like the iPad.

Not an engineer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. Seems like a hardware issue. Since it takes several fast swipes to reproduce, it probably is a buffer input output problem due to the speed of the swipes.
Anyone have a more technical background that sheds light into touch screen input/output processing and buffering delays?

This is really silly.

Can't replicate it here on my iPhone 5 in mail or any other app for that matter.

MsQueen said:

What if it's the accidental touch feature activating when you touch the edges as you scroll up and down/diagonally?

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Very astute. I noticed it stopped responding the first time I tried, but every subsequent time it was able to follow my ridiculous swiping. I think I may have swiped too far (off the screen) and triggered the accidental touch - hadn't thought of that until you said it, but it makes perfect sense.

xgman said:

This is really silly.

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Maybe not so silly for a game that relies on this kind of input. If you're a developer you basically have to not develop that game.

MultiMediaWill said:

Typical, post Jobs, quality control issues.

EDIT: Tried it on my iPhone 5 and I have the same issue. Scrollgate

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Wow, you really are new to the Apple world, aren't you? QC issues have been present before Jobs' death. Things seemed to really start sliding with the move to Intel. Not that Intel itself is to blame, but it started around that time. So no, it is not "typical, post Jobs" at all.

Non-issue.

This is actually the new palm detection that everyone has been talking about for the iPad mini, but it's also in these devices as well. Since the screen is bigger, reaching the far edges with your thumb is difficult to do without your palm touching the screen.

The reason scrolling diagonally triggers it is because occassionally his finger gets close to the edge where palm touches will be ignored.

I've no issues too, it works well

jayducharme said:

Defective models? I've replicated his test on my iPhone 5, but had no issues at all.

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I can't say I've noticed, even after trying the technique in the video. If anything, the iPhone 5 touchscreen seems more sensitive to me.