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iPhone 12 Mini Users Report Lock Screen Touch Sensitivity Issues
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the display should be operating fine without issues once you get pass the lock screen/notification screen. the problem only persist on those two screens.
Haha. Yah. I’ve gone back to try and duplicate the issue with trash can button. It now seems to be working as normal. I must have been doing something odd. Oh well. So yes, as now it’s only on the Lock Screen. Thanks for the reply.
The problem only happens when you have a case and also a screen protector applied to your phone. If you have either one on your phone but not both, you won’t experience the issue
Thats crazy. When i have to wear a mask and face id won‘t work, i can‘t type in the pin code by one hand. I have to use both, because one doesn‘t get completely recognized.
Out of Lockscreeen everything else works fine.
So it is 100% a bug?!
Out of Lockscreeen everything else works fine.
So it is 100% a bug?!
Why is it that my 12 mini works completely fine after I unlock the phone? The only time I have issues is when I am on the lockscreen and trying to get into the phone. Both the swipe up AND the keypad don't work very well. I can log in pretty decently on the keypad when I use my finger nail to punch in the passcode.
I use my finger nail to log in and it works. I also touch the bottom to swipe up for a second and then swipe up and that seems to help
That's not something I am willing to do... I'm going to protect my expensive phone. Apple will need to get this figured out. I'm not using my phone without a screen protector or case
I haven't tested without a case/glass, but here's a guess: There's a palm rejection algorithm at work in the lock screen and notification center (shared functionality, shared code) and it's calibrated incorrectly for the Mini. Or it could be any part of the code that works with touch/gestures in those screens. Impossible to say.
If that's at least approximately true, they need to ship a supplemental software update to fix this. I cannot imagine a mechanism that would make this a hardware problem, since it works flawlessly in every other screen. Luckily it's still mostly usable in the lock screen too.
I called Apple Support. They didn't know about this or pretended not to know, but promised to write an incident report. I would suggest people give them a call and ask to do the same. They will suggest a reboot, full reset etc. but no need to follow those orders, unless you want to. Just make sure they'll report this, so the engineers get the memo. It's also a good idea to use the feedback form. The more noise people make, the faster a fix arrives. https://www.apple.com/feedback/
I put in a Feedback form on the apple website. Hopefully everyone else on this forum does the same thing.
I think by now Apple know about this bug... We should be expecting an update any day now.
I could buy that's it's a grounding issue... over the past 40+ years of Apple products not doing grounding right has been the #1 issue on their products (with until recently #2 being using a poor capacitor).
It's like there's an old-timer somewhere @ Apple they can't get rid of that partied too much the weekend before they covered grounding in EE university.
/s
It's like there's an old-timer somewhere @ Apple they can't get rid of that partied too much the weekend before they covered grounding in EE university.
/s
Hey, they could then fix it with ... a bumper? Like the last time we had square phones.
More seriously though: could you please cite a source for grounding being a #1 issue over 40 years? I do remember getting an occasional jolt from my 2008 Mac Pro back in the day, at the time plugged into a not-too-well-grounded wall socket. Using a grounded socket fixed that. But those were the days, and this is a wireless device.
Specifically: if it's a grounding issue (hardware and physics), how come it goes away when the phone is unlocked by its software (= computation and code)? What's the reasoning behind that?
I haven't built an Apple 1 and couldn't fix an old TV at gunpoint ... but it doesn't sit well in my mind, how a grounding issue would not affect all apps.
I'm betting my 1 cent towards a 14.2.1 supplemental update rather than a total recall of all phones due to a hardware problem.
Well I was meaning the comment as more tongue-in-cheek than statistical fact (why i bolded the /s at the bottom)...Hey, they could then fix it with ... a bumper? Like the last time we had square phones.
More seriously though: could you please cite a source for grounding being a #1 issue over 40 years? I do remember getting an occasional jolt from my 2008 Mac Pro back in the day, at the time plugged into a not-too-well-grounded wall socket. Using a grounded socket fixed that. But those were the days, and this is a wireless device.
Specifically: if it's a grounding issue (hardware and physics), how come it goes away when the phone is unlocked by its software (= computation and code)? What's the reasoning behind that?
I haven't built an Apple 1 and couldn't fix an old TV at gunpoint ... but it doesn't sit well in my mind, how a grounding issue would not affect all apps.
I'm betting my 1 cent towards a 14.2.1 supplemental update rather than a total recall of all phones due to a hardware problem.
By the way a simple example of poor grounding from moons ago is the design of the "in-adapter" plug on the MB/P power supplies vs. the corded... A OCD engineer would have carried out the ground.
How to properly ground a MacBook Pro
I have a MacBook Pro 4.1. In the past - from time to time - you could feel a bit of electricity close to the aluminium case when working in AC mode, but now things are getting worse. I can feel the
On the capacitor side the clearest example was the original AirPort base station... man they really used a el-cheapo cap on that one (which when it finally popped was replaceable by those who could unsolder/solder).
When it comes to layout, parts, signal traces, etc I'm very OCD and tend to really exceed the need... but I don't have to worry about every penny of costs and designing for the absolute least volume/lowest cost to mfg. device.
Anyway, they've certainly upped their game, but no one is perfect and if you push it too far you can get a kick in the butt... physics will always win and those electrons can be rascally.
How would an old timer have partied any harder than a younger person especially today with heavy pill popping counts?! I went to parties some in the 90’s but started being the old guy (barely) in late 2000’s and the difference is night & day. 90’s ppl would pop 1 at a time, maybe 2 an entire night if you had a dud. These days kids pop like it’s Pez or PacMan on a power pill binge! They also sound like MashMouth from afar Albert too! Me I’d rather just dance to the music always have.
So what’s the consensus? If it’s a hardware issue I’d rather return this iPhone and wait for them to potentially release a revised version. Signed up to an expensive plan and don’t want a phone that potentially has a hardware issue.
