I returned my iphone due to a crazy bad screen quality, I got LG with huge green tint. Will order a new one next week so will check if the touch issues are still there. but overall conclusion is that probalby due to thinner bezels, Apple had to change the touch rejection algorithm and that messed up the touch and it will take months to repair that if even is possible (we are 2 months into the 16s and only biggest touch problems were corrected) bc if you loosen up the touch rejection, it can probably result with crazy amount of unintended touches (same as with samsung phones where any small touch of the bezel results often with hitting a button by accident etc.). There is teh chance Apple will recalibrate things bc for example I can understand that using new iphones without a case demands a much stronger touch rejection but at the same time it kinda does not take into if you are using the case (so like with the case I actually probably am not touching accidentaly the screen at all, but the iOS behave like on a phone without a case)
"does it break the user experience for you on a daily basis?"
I am coming from android phone so two things were for me crazy annoying:
1. the fact you have to wait until the animation resolves or the touch will not register (but it is an iOS bug probably) you can check it by going to messages and entering a chat and quickly hitting the back button and rinse and repeat. Probably I'm a bit faster then most or just was used to android phone but like I had to push myself to use my phone a small bit slower bc if I go my normal speed I would have touch issues (like my fingers are that 10ms too fast). But if you don't have this problem on your current iphone I think you would not have this problem on the 16 neither.
2. here and there you have to tap for a second or third time for whatever reason (like on the video). And it is crazy bc sometimes you even can see the animation for the button you just hit so the tap was registered but for some reason ios decides to cancel it (probably due to a more aggressive palm rejection) and I was using the apple silicon case so was not touching other parts of the phone while trying to tap the buttons. IT happens like 5-10 times a day so not often but it is crazy annoying if ti happens like you have the impression you have to tap the screen harder to register etc.
3. I didn't have any keyboard lags or smth like that, overall typing was much much better then on android phone and funny enough for the first time I stopped looking at the keyboard at all (on android I was always looking at the keys I hit) and without auto correction like I was hitting 95% of taps correctly writing blindly just looking at the text. so overall typing experience was very good or even crazy good for me.
If you have an iphone 13 pro and you are happy with it I would probably wait a bit, borrow 16 pro from a friend for couple of hours to check, bc like it is nice to have thin bezels but the overall touch experience is crazy annoying due to that small change. For me (I'm in love with iphone and it was my first iphone ever) I will order a new one and just live with those touch issues, bc if I focus to use my phone a bit slower most of the touch problems disappear and again keyboard was working crazy good for me and I could abuse it just like on my android phone, but it was much much much more accurate. So in reality the touch problems are happenign only in some settings menus and after I set up everything it will be no biggie to tap something twice here and there. What's importatn here I had never to hit again a keayboard key, like if you are using a keyboard, everything is working great (probably bc ios knows you are typing the palm rejection is not messing things up anymore)
PS. I was not using a screen protector.
PS2. 16 PM with a silicon case, moft wallet and I still would have to add a screen protector is really a brick (I don't minde but like it is a brick)
PS3. IN a week or two I will have a new 16 pro max so if you can wait a bit I can tell you if it works any better or not
