This update better come soon. I'm holding out on getting one for my niece until it's actually proven to be fixed by software. And I hate last minute x-mas shopping.
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Apple Working on Fix for Bug Causing iPhone X Display to Become Temporarily Unresponsive in Cold Weather
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No its not. Its a new technology on "APPLE" phones.
Easy.
They will use your phone's location to work out where you are, look up the current weather conditions for that location, and if it's under a certain temperature will kick off a CPU intensive routine on your phone to warm it up. Once you move to a cooler area, that will be detected and the routine will be stopped before your phone explodes.
If your phone stops working in the cold, or explodes in the warm, then it's not Apple's fault but the weather forecaster's.
I have had OLED screens on my phones for the last 7 years and I have never had this issue.
It is not a new technology, it is new to Apple customers.
(Having worked in Apple QA..) secrecy is a big issue. If you can only test devices in warm, air-conditioned (keypad/swipe-card locked) labs, you likely won't find issues like this.
There are (or at least, were) also times that most of the testing team don't get the latest hardware, for fear of leaks. I can remember at least one time - many years ago - when a Mac shipped with a DVD tray that kept snagging and re-opening. We didn't catch it in testing because we saw the finished enclosure only when it was announced.
Why do you need elaborate QA when customers ready pay a fortune, report defects and patiently wait for updates!!
Love global warming, its 5 degrees above average here at the moment and the iphone X works just fine 
You could buy a little electric sweater for it or maybe carry it around in an electric ice fishing sock...
All the cone heads in Apple are now thinking of doing that and making a billion or two more.
In the manual it will say... in order for phone to perform faster in cold weather, please buy our optional fast warmer jacket at £50.
That is hardly analogous to what is going on here. Should they have done more testing in a colder climate? Probably. But everything has bugs. And this is hardly a show stopper. It will be fixed in a week or two.
Yes, I would and have.
Electronics with software will have bugs and unforeseen things. This is one of those things. It's going to be fixed so what's the big deal?
**** happens. $25-$100,000,000 - doesn't matter what you pay. There will always be something. Nothing is perfect. Cars, TV's, Computers, Phones, everything electronic.
Today it’s already -11°C. I think Apple needs to do more testing outside of California. Their battery remaining calculation in cold weather isn’t great either. I’ve had my phone go from 30% battery right to off/plug-in more than once.
Came outside to this temp today, used my phone on the way to and from the car without issue.
Looking like I have a device that continues to be okay in these Minnesota temperatures.
Hoping Apple has a fix for those having issues. Having had touchscreen issues in the past, it is terrible to live with.
I think it is reasonable. Samsung releases such updates for their devices from time to time. I think the most recent one had to do with Palm rejection issues on the S7 causing unresponsive screens on those devices. More recently in IOS, there was a software update to resolve unresponsive screens in iPhone 6s models that had problems after updating to iOS 11.
Or they can adjust thresholds like other brands did for their issues.
Apple phones will never come with a stylus but it now sounds like a small space heater may become an option .
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And China is also a pretty temperate country, especially since main testing probably was done robustly about six months ago during the Spring. So you can see how this could fall through the cracks if it is an issue that only impacts 1 out 10 phones or something like that.
If it is every phone, then it better just be a software bug that wasn't caught.
I think chances are you won't be able to get an iPhone at the last minute before Christmas this year. I'd order one for her now with the wait currently at 3-4 weeks. You can always cancel it if this cold weather malfunction develops into something more serious--but I doubt that will happen. Apple has said they have a fix in the works and they can be generally counted on.
It's definitely software, because locking and unlocking the device fixes the issue when it's occuring, just tested it out this morning.
You probably can for the iPhone too;
I have an Android app that does that on the s7 edge so yes. Also gives barometer reading, compass reading, gyro, gps and glonass info etc.
Amazing really.
