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Some iPhone 13 Users Reporting Intermittent Touch Issues, Older Models Also Affected After Updating to iOS 15
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Maybe working from home isn’t the best way to write complex software requiring integration of different teams.
My 13 ProMax is getting worse, more and more I have to use side button to wake screen up. Also intermittently unresponsive at other times. Glad it’s software and not hardware.
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This seems like an iOS 15 issue to me. My iPhone XS has been terrible. Pinch to zoom sometimes works. Pulling out of zoom in safari NEVER works. Screen goes unresponsive at times. Just a mess
Coming to think of it, I wonder if Apple were aware of iOS 15 shortcomings and this is what prompted them to almost actively discourage people from updating to it by giving it a special separate update line at the bottom of the update screen? 🤷🏻♂️ iOS 14.8 was running so smooth, but I got tempted by all the little eye candy tweaks. Eh… At least I managed to stay off betas this time, so there is hope. 😋
Bugs are normal with every product, usually they are fixed in one or two minor updates. Jiggly screen is another general paranoia, well explained even by
Anyway it is always better to send feedback or use Feedback assistant if you are on beta, whining is useless.
I just wanna know whether it is a software issue.
Have a trip to Android and Windows land after a "major" update, then you will accepts these little bugs that will be fixed in few weeks/days.
I haven't had any of these issues on my 13 Pro Max and iOS15 has been fantastic.
The days of me jumping on a .0 release stopped around version 12. I wait until WWDC before I upgrade any of my devices.
You can type to me on Slack while sitting next to me in a office or at home, the end result is the same. Programmers are not physically interacting with each other in the office, the software goes through the same QA process, and the deadlines are the same. I don’t know what agenda people have when they are against developers being more productive working from home. Are you one of those middle managers that taps on a developers shoulder to ask a question, delaying their work for a hour, because you are so impatient that you can’t wait five minutes for a answer on the group channel?
I have same issue since iOS 15 in my iPhone 12 Pro Max. It is incremental. First fails some touches, then more, and more. Solution: restart the phone.
This has been the buggiest iPhone/iOS update for me in years. Widgets randomly disappear, I have problems with touch responsiveness, I’m having to force close apps after they freeze, watch issues (Apple has acknowledged), etc. Hopefully these issues are taken care of soon.
Haven't really noticed it on my iPhone 12 Pro but have been getting some odd touch issues on my iPad Air 3 since the iPadOS 15 release. Both devices were running the developer betas from beta 1 and I don't remember getting any issues on any of those so it seems like a release version issue somewhere.
It will be fixed in an iOS update. Life goes on. The Earth will continue to rotate into the Sun's rays. At least where I live. Apparently not in all locales, though. So much hyperventilating.
Having issues with YouTube. The first video does not respond to touch intially. Takes a few times to make it work, very annoying!
Yeah, can imagine it not problem free there either. But is it "propertionally worse" so to speak? Maybe – I'm not using Android often and Windows 10 only for gaming.
I've worked in environments before where a small "annoyance" type of bug didn't impact one team but then brought another team to a halt. Being in an office together where "water cooler talk" happens often and some insider knowledge of what other teams are experiencing can help.
It doesn't take a "middle manager" to know that sometimes working together in house can bring different benefits than the benefits you see from WFH. And I have zero agenda here, as I also WFH and have for many many years. Sometimes I miss the camaraderie and the little things in passing.
Just my $0.02 - we might see these types of nagging quality issues across many companies and industries where collaboration and problem solving was compromised by remote work.
Now, before some of you jump all over the "remote part" of this post, this is not a referendum of whether remote work is good or bad. It's simply a premise about how it's more difficult to collaborate on the many details that go into modern production when you're relegated to being remote.
Now, before some of you jump all over the "remote part" of this post, this is not a referendum of whether remote work is good or bad. It's simply a premise about how it's more difficult to collaborate on the many details that go into modern production when you're relegated to being remote.
I'm having a bunch of touch-related issues in Safari on an iPhone X running iOS 15. The following come to mind:
- Safari often doesn't pinch-to-zoom, but I see the hidden bottom tab bar jiggling around, so it's doing something.
- Sometimes the bottom half of the screen doesn't react to scrolling gestures, but the top half does.
- Safari often doesn't pinch-to-zoom, but I see the hidden bottom tab bar jiggling around, so it's doing something.
- Sometimes the bottom half of the screen doesn't react to scrolling gestures, but the top half does.