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Anyone notice the touch response is not as good as past models?
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I was actually going to start a thread about how much the response has IMPROVED. I think the in-cell tech is really awesome. I find the 5 to be super sensitive.
Maybe its your phone.
I was worried about this happening when I heard they we're changing the type of display but mine responds just as good as the 4/4S
Was thinking the same. Sometimes it feels my phone reacts before I touch it. Very sensitive.
Sometimes I notice on my 4 that if my fingers are very dry or cold, it doesn't register as well. Breath on your finger tips to add a little moisture for resistance and see if that helps.
Yep and there's a scientific reason for that:
To a capacitive screen, we're the rough electrical equivalent of a six foot diameter bag of water.
That's because our blood vessels are close to the surface of our skin, and blood plasma and electrolytes are very conductive.
When we're cold, those capillaries are closed off, we become less of a conductor, and the screen will have a harder time detecting us.
A couple of decades ago we did a lot of capacitive screens for casinos, and got experience with thousands of users. There was a small percentage of people who just never registered well on the screens. Some wore lots of lotion, some had callouses and perhaps some just didn't have good bloodflow to their fingers.
A very sound explanation.
I have very poor peripheral circulation due to medication mishap and touch does not work well.
I use a stylus.
Some on here have said this before. I myself have yet to notice it during the day with personal use
This 'ere. I play guitar a lot, and my fret hand fingertips aren't nearly as responsive as my left hand (I play lefty
). If I moisten 'em and rub it in a bit then they work better.I wanted to chime in so I could subscribe to this thread. I noticed this the first minute I got my 5. I seem to be getting used to it but I have a piece of dust in the middle of my screen so I am taking it in anyway. I am going over the replacement with a fine tooth comb (I feel I paid $500 for the device, it should be near perfect) and will report back my findings on the new phone tonight.
Adderall...
Can reduce Circulation, Causing fingers to get colder than normal, makes the touch screen less responsive sometimes
Yea, same here. I tried to slide it, but nothing happened. I had to tap it. This happened a few times making think something was wrong like the OP. But it only happened in setting when I tried to toggle something on/off.
Nope, but I've noticed my muscle memory has me hitting wrong spots sometimes. Especially for apps that haven't updated yet. Seems the bottom of the keyboard starts a little higher up.
No difference here, but there are reports of iPhone 5 with unresponsive touchscreens indicating they're defective and should be swapped out.
You tell em Internet man.
I've found that the App Store buttons, particularly the update/buy/install are oddly hard to press, and hard to tell when they've been pressed.
Okay well this thread was made out to be a hardware issue, not a software issue. That is clearly a software issue.