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

I reported this on the day I got my iPhone 5, the week after release.

Try tapping the top corners with your thumb sideways. The noisier plastic screen requires you to press with a flat finger.

The space bar is often unresponsive. The 1 and 0 also don't respond at times. No need to scroll faster. It seems to be a screen edge issue, which someone referred to as an aspect ratio mapping issue, which does cause issues such as tap to top for some apps.

It is also over sensitive against clothes which causes multiple step presses against a shirt pocket.

No surprise the next iPhone will have a changed screen.

Ps. Genius Bar staff have no clue about this, and will simply do a flat thumb screen run row by row matrix.

Changing my unit made no improvement and the 2nd unit also had a loose home button which they tried to claim was normal and could be re-seated which is fine for 1 minute only. The 3rd unit if problematic has to be repaired and not replaced as was previous policy where the home button was unrepairable.

I tested it out in the browser and it doesnt happen there, but in contacts it does... I was swiping pretty dam fast in contacts ( faster then any game you would play ) and it happens like 10 seconds in.. At a good swiping diagnal pace in safari nothing happened

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Yumbo said:

I reported this on the day I got my iPhone 5, the week after release.

Try tapping the top corners with your thumb sideways. The noisier plastic screen requires you to press with a flat finger.

The space bar is often unresponsive. No need to scroll faster.

It is also over sensitive against clothes which causes multiple step presses against a shirt pocket.

No surprise the next iPhone will have a changed screen.

Ps. Genius Bar staff have no clue about this, and will simply do a flat thumb screen run row by row matrix.

Changing my unit made no improvement and the 2nd unit also had a loose home button which they tried to claim was normal and could be re-seated which is fine for 1 minute only. The 3rd unit if problematic has to be repaired and not replaced as was previous policy where the home button was unrepairable.

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That sucks hard.. Luckily i dont have these issues with my phone, maybe in the beginning the keyboard couldnt really catch up with my typing but iOS has to start over and learn your typing pattern and everything even with a restore and now it works perfectly fine

Simplicated said:

Where's the downvote button when you need it

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Where's irony when you need it? Oh, there it is: right in your comment.

Ugh. Now I can't scroll through my mail up and down quickly! No!

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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I took mine off the shelf and activated it, just to try and see if there was any truth to this rumor.

Sure enough, before three minutes had elapsed it hung. Scrollgate

Poor Apple just can't get a break... and people say this is the best iPhone... who are they kidding?

My iPhone 4S, the one that I put back into service after getting enough of my uninteresting, buggy, Google map-less iPhone 5, is so much better it's simply amazing.

The original iPhone was quite good, then next was better, the 3S was very good, then Antennagate happened with the iP4.

Sad Apple

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Yumbo said:

I reported this on the day I got my iPhone 5, the week after release.

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Apple is steeped in denial, unless you are someone famous, or otherwise properly qualified, Apple says there's nothing wrong.

I've experienced some dead spots at times at the top of the screen. Thought it was fat finger syndrome.

Apparently not

It appears to be software

I can easily see this problem on mobile version of cnn.com and can not cause it to happen in the standard version of cnn.com.

I think this is a issue with whatever code Apple has that shows tables & cells (like contact app, iPhone-style websites, etc).

Some developer should write a scrolling drawing app without all the fancy cocoa stuff to prove it is hardware vs software.

I have the same issue on my ip5. I noticed bad touch recognition as well.
I hope this is not a hardware issue and is fixed in the next release of iOS. Otherwise I'd be really disappointed. I always thought the great touch response was one of the most important advantages of the iPhone overnAndroid devices, which are very laggy.

KdParker said:

Why do you care? You don't even have an iPHONE 5, so if this is an issue for you, then don't upgrade.

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i care cause i am a consumer that wants to buy and iPhone 5 aND would appreciate if apple would stop being so damn cheap and actually test their stuff please..

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Krazy Bill said:

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

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lol yup i agree

well, time to sell my fruit ninja stock.
/s

I dont understand, some of you guys have serious issues with touch on your phone? am i like the only one with a magical iphone that doesnt have touch issues? pinch to zoom works perfect on my phone, scrolling is buttery smooth, fast and accurate, and touch input does not lag ?

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GorgonPhone said:

i care cause i am a consumer that wants to buy and iPhone 5 aND would appreciate if apple would stop being so damn cheap and actually test their stuff please..

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lol yup i agree

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you have to be trolling right now, if you bought a new iphone today the chance is very high that you wont encounter a problem with the phone

This is so trivial, it isn't even funny.

This is clearly a huge problem. What am I gonna do now when I have to rapidly swipe up and down diagonally when I read my texts or email.. damnit Apple

Mike84 said:

Interesting. I have noticed the same issue and feel the sensitivity on the touch screen has lower than it was on the iphone 4 and 4s. Sometimes the touchscreen doesn't read certain commands, e.g., swiping on an email to delete.

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I've noticed this problem too. Same with swiping to delete a voicemail. Really anything you can swipe to delete.

It's definitely software related. I can replicate it while looking at a list of my emails and scrolling there. If I open an email and try it within the email, it doesn't have any problems.

Suggest you forget about it because:
Typical, in this forum, always some dumb posts from dumb ass.

Simplicated said:

Where's the downvote button when you need it

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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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That's probably it - it's absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for that guy to replicate the issue on a scientific basis with his hands only, especially when you may be touching the screen with your palm or simply doing what is said above.

Unless this is demonstrated with a robot/machine doing it on EXACTLY the same distances, this is a non-issue.

Another possibility, if the problem is confirmed, is that it might be a buffer problem related to the new in-cell technology...a firmware update should be able to fix it, I presume.

I have to say this is a major problem and im glad the glitch was discovered.

Ive often felt commands weren't registering when using my iphone 5, and this is with normal scrolling with safari browser. Whenever it would happen, i kept putting it down to my error..and blaming the screen protector im using as a possible issue, however this video makes me think otherwise!

Oh apple.....

My wife reported (to me) touch input issues on her iPhone 5 very early on. She wasn't doing repeated scrolling like in the video, but at times the screen would be completely unresponsive to touch...as if it were frozen. It only happens occasionally so we haven't taken it in to have it replaced yet. Good to know, in a bad sort of way, that it's not just her experiencing this.

Something is off with the touchscreen i knew it

Thankfully this came out. I've been having touch response issues since day one but they are hard to reproduce until now. By the way, there are a bunch of *******s trolling this thread. ****!

Thats why you wait for the 5s.
Apples doing this Tick-Tock thing. You guys all got the Tick version
The best is always the tock version, iphone 3gs, 4s, and soon 5s.

I can't reproduce it on my iPhone 5. Have tried really hard, pre-loading lots and lots of mail from my gmail, scrolling just fine at really fast speeds. Fastar than the guy in the utube vid. Maybe there were some early shipments that were defective.

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Bahroo said:

I dont understand, some of you guys have serious issues with touch on your phone? am i like the only one with a magical iphone that doesnt have touch issues? pinch to zoom works perfect on my phone, scrolling is buttery smooth, fast and accurate, and touch input does not lag ?

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No. Mine works like a charm too. I ********ing love it

I cannot replicate this on my iPhone 5. I've tried several times, but it scrolls along normally with no dropping out or stopping at all. Could be hardware related to specific displays.

I can replicate this behavior in the mail app.

Strangely when I play fruit ninja where continuous swiping is actually needed, I don't get this behavior.