iPhone 16 Pro Max Screen Unresponsive

I upgraded to 16pro max from 15pro max and noticed immediately how slow the screen was at responding to touch. Feels like you need to be more deliberate in your inputs for it to register.

I have a screen protector but as this is from a quality brand I can’t see that being the issue.

Hopefully a software issue rather than hardware. I have the same issue. Why apple didn’t fix with iOS 18.? I hope it will get fixed in the next software update.

Kshitij24 wrote:

You are the only person in this thread who is speaking otherwise, it is a genuine problem which apple is not able to figure out/apple support is not able to help. People who have gotten replacement units are still suffering from it.

Repeating the same thing over is not helping anyone.

No he's not. I have commented that I have absolutely no touch issues on either our 16 Pro or 16 Pro Max. There are several in my office with 16 Pro's and none of them are having any touch issues. I know several other people who own iPhone 16 Pro models and they have no touch issues.

That doesn't mean you don't have touch issues, but there are likely more who don't than who do. What is causing the touch issue, needs to be figured out, which we can't do as we are all users on this user to user only forum.

I think I figured out what’s causing it.

if your finger is at all on the new photo button, the phone isn’t sure whether you’re doing something with the photo button, which is touch sensitive or touching the screen so you have to make sure that your grip is not at all impeding the photo button and you should be better it’s still not completely healed for me, but it’s much much better when I make sure I’m not touching that Hope this helps.

I’ve been experiencing a frustrating issue with the keyboard. It’s very slow to respond—letters appear on the screen after I’ve already typed them. Sometimes, the keyboard freezes for about 3 seconds, during which nothing I type shows up. After the freeze, everything catches up all at once.

What’s worse is that if I press "Send" during the freeze, it only sends the text typed up to the freeze point, and the rest of what I typed during that period ends up in a new message.

This problem started when I upgraded to iOS 18.0.0. I didn’t have this issue with my iPhone 15 Pro Max before the update, but it has continued even after switching to the iPhone 16 Pro Max. Because of this, I think it’s a software issue.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Perhaps you could try some of the suggestions in this link --> Adjust how iPhone responds to your touch - Apple Support

Phone support is provided by Apple Support's personnel.

If you want in-store support, make a Genius Bar appointment.

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

Glad to see that it’s not just my iPhone lol. Hopefully Apple will be able to fix this with an update soon. 🤞🏼

No issues for me with mine - 16PM, 1 TB, picked up on launch day.

yep look mie does tha too

This is more likely to be the Instagram app rather than iOS.

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Hopefully they send you a brand new one and not a refurbished one. Carriers love to send out those refurbs for replacements.

I use speech to text ALOT and when I punch the mic button (hard) about 70% of the time it doesn’t start recording. It’s maddening.

I've never needed to use anything other than a light tap; perhaps try not pushing the button hard.