Some iPhone 16 Pro owners report problems with the phone’s touch screen.
According to 9to5Maca number of people online have claimed that their new premium iPhone (whether it’s the regular Pro or Pro Max) isn’t properly registering every tap and swipe it should be registering. Obviously, this is problematic for a phone that almost completely lacks real buttons. Having this problem would make it difficult to perform even basic tasks on an iPhone 16 Pro or Pro Max.
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The good news is that there seems to be agreement on what is happening and how to fix it. The prevailing theory right now is that the problem is software-based, specifically that the accidental touch algorithm in iPhones (which is meant to turn off the screen from accidental presses and swipes) is too sensitive. With the very small bezels on the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, it can be a little too easy to accidentally have part of your hand on the screen without realizing it, which would disable taps and swipes on the rest of the screen.
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9to5Mac also pointed out that this doesn’t happen when the phone is locked, and is much harder to replicate if the phone is in a case. In other words, this is almost certainly a fixable software problem Appleend, and even before it happens, you can avoid it by putting your iPhone 16 Pro in a case or being more careful where you touch the screen.