Have you ever notice a time when your iPhone begins performing actions on its own? At- times the screen will react to nonexisting touches or apps will open without you clicking on them, such strange action is known as Ghost touch. Indeed it can be very annoying.
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Sometimes Ghost touch requires you to take your iPhone to apple, but before you do that you can try a number of quick fixes, this starts from cleaning the iPhone touch screen to performing a factory reset.
iPhone That Is Affected By Ghost Touch
it was discovered that the iPhone “Ghost touch” problem generally affects iPhone X. Happily in November 2018, Apple declared publicly to have found some issues affecting the iPhone X’s touch screen and promised to provide free repairs to the affected ones.
Lately, we also discovered that the “ghost touch” issues also affect other models, not only the iPhone X’s and XR but also the iPhone 8, iPhone 7. iPhone 6 and iPhone 5. If one should say that “Ghost touch” affects all iPhones, he or she shouldn’t be blamed at all. Now let’s look at easy and possible ways to tackle the issue.
Clean The Touch Screen
Looking at it normally, this action might be simple, but cleaning your iPhone touch screen can be a very effective defense against Ghost touch. Cleaning the touch screen is very important because by doing it, you clear away any dust, debris that can interfere with how the iPhone detects your touch.
On no account should you clean the touch screen leaving the iPhone on, or plugged either on light or connected cables, switch it off, unplugged any connected cable. Do not clean with anyhow cloth especially dirty ones, clean with a soft and clean cloth, like cloth used for cleaning lenses. You should slightly dampen this cloth with warm water then clean the touch screen gently but firmly from one end to the other.
Remove Your Screen Protection
Million and iPhone users make use of this screen protector, because it offers security to the screen of their phone but based on recent discovery; this screen protector sometimes disrupts how the touch screen operates. So you should try removing it since it helps to stop the Ghost touch problem.
While removing the iPhone protector, it should be done carefully and gently, don’t start at the middle, start at one corner, then gently peel the protector off the iPhone screen, if the protector is damaged, please, don’t try removing it your self to avoid more damages, take it to a quality repair shop or to Apple.
It’s the best advice to contact the manufacturers of the protective screen. They will be in a better place the recommend the best way of removing the protector
Take Off your iPhone Case
One of the causes of iPhone Ghost screen is a slightly twisted screen, if your iPhone has such twisted screen, to be able to solve that problem, you should try removing the attached hard case, at times it can be this hard case that twists the screen. So you should try removing it to see if it will change anything.
Restart Your Phone.
Is always the best idea to restart your iPhone anytime it has a problem, especially when experiencing the Ghost touch issues, to restart your iPhone follow this guideline.
- Hold the side button and either volume button firmly until the slide to power off slider shows
- Move the power off slider to the right.
- After shutdown hold the side button firmly until the Apple logo appears.
Other Guidelines On How To Tackle Ghost Touch Issues
- Force to restart your iPhone
- Update IOS
- Perform a factory reset
- Recover your iPhone
- Take your iPhone to apple
