Some iPhone 13 Users Reporting Intermittent Touch Issues, Older Models Also Affected After Updating to iOS 15

Some new iPhone 13 users are reporting intermittent touch issues on their new devices, a phenomenon where the ‌iPhone‌ does not respond to touch inputs by the user, sometimes requiring an entire device force restart to solve, or in other cases, repeated taps to trigger the system to react.

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Posts on Reddit, the MacRumors Forums, Twitter, and Apple Support include reports of ‌iPhone‌ 13 customers having touch sensitivity issues on their new phones. Users report problems with tap to wake, where the ‌iPhone‌ doesn't respond after a tap on the screen to wake, and other instances of system-wide and in-app touch inputs not responding.

Isolated cases of touch screen sensitivity issues on the ‌iPhone‌ 13 would narrow it down to possible hardware malfunctions for some models of the new ‌iPhone‌; however, reports of touch issues occurring on older devices after updating to iOS 15 suggest it's likely a software bug instead.

Since its release slightly over a week ago, iOS 15 has been tormented with problems, including bugs related to the ‌iPhone‌ 13 and the Apple Watch, device storage, Apple Music, and widgets, on top of possible security vulnerabilities. Apple has promised to release a software update to address various issues currently impacting iOS and iPadOS 15 devices. Apple may release iOS 15.0.1 sooner rather than later to address the issues, though it may alternatively decide to just release iOS 15.1 instead when it completes beta testing later next month.

YouTuber and Apple beta specialist Zollotech noted in his latest video recapping the changes in the newest iOS 15.1 beta that the issue seems to be fixed, according to his limited time with the latest software build.

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