iPhone 16 Pro Max Screen Occasionally Displays Glitch Lines

I have experienced this issue before 2 or 3 times very occasionally 2 weeks ago and never noticed it again until last night when I was in an indoors concert which it did it around 5 times in the span of an hour roughly… it was always when waking up the screen from “always on display” or when pressing the camera control button.

my phone was fairly hot because I had it on my hand while taking raw photos and recording in 4K. That’s what leads me to think it happened that often during that time?

Since then I’ve kept locking and unlocking my phone and the lines are not coming back…

but for the looks of it if it’s only happening when using “always on display” and in the scenario for all of us so I really hope it is a software issue that gets fixed soon and not hardware related

I see too, on the bottom of my screen mostly. I think it glitches the whole screen out but it happens so fast that I never get a good look at the whole screen. Mine looks like a defect in the screen maybe. But it only does it when switching apps or on screen wake up. Its like white lines with tiny black green and red lines running vertically. It seems like a software thing but who knows? It seems like quite a few others are having similar issues. My touch screen is sometimes unresponsive but that doesn’t happen often at all.

As I had just bought the IPhone 16 pro max 265gb it to has had some screen glitches with lines and randomly plays YouTube whenever it connects to a Bluetooth item like my car even when I don’t have YouTube in the background or pulled up I went and switched it out for the same Verizon or phone but this one is also doing it but worse than my first one!

This happens to me since the iphone 16 pro max delivery, kept waiting for updates but 18.2 still does not resolve it. Went to the apple store and of course did not happen there and they said not even a recording would work for them, they need to see it happen. Any suggestions on making it reproduce at the apple store?

I tried AOD on and off, the issue is still there. I think issue is with refresh rate. It occurs based on content you are browsing. For me it comes frequently on x while scrolling through tweets and less in other apps

I bought my iPhone 16 Pro Max 512 Gb last October. Once the glitching with vertical lines started I went to see the Apple Store Genius Bar staff. The phone settings were restored and I was asked to monitor it. The glitching started again and I was advised to replace the display screen. The glitching recurred and this time the Apple technical staff replaced the logic board mid-system. The glitching problem happened again and I was given a brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max as replacement. The new replacement also glitched with vertical lines very soon thereafter. 

The glitching with vertical lines happens intermittently and randomly on the screen. Each occurrence happens only for a split second which makes taking a screenshot impossible.

Can anyone please advise on what I should do next?

In iOS 18.3.2 the problem persists. I thought I was the only one with this problem, but it turned out to be an obvious problem. I just bought an iPhone 16 pro max and started to worry because I didn't drop or repair the phone. as it turns out this is a really big Apple problem

This happened to me too, I thought that when I got the replacement for my iPhone 16 pro max i would stop dealing with the glitching but it happened again. I am glad that I’m not alone with this problem.

When I went to the apple Genius Bar they literally told me that they didn’t know what was happening and that I should wait for an update. This never happened to me before and it is so infuriating because I didn’t pay for a phone that glitches, if I knew this before I wouldn’t have bought a new iPhone and I would have stayed with my old one.

the worse is that apple hasn’t even said anything about this problem and it is affecting a lot of users.

I received my replacement phone about three weeks ago (Apple support is always top-notch). I can say that my new iPhone still has this issue — it’s less noticeable, but definitely it’s still there. That’s why I still believe it’s a software bug, or something that Apple just hasn’t been able to fix.

I just bought the regular 16 pro max 256 gb a month ago and these issues just started occurring for me around a week ago. I went through the whole rigamarole by taking it to apple to see what is up. I had the 13 pro max and it was actually the perfect iPhone. Peak iPhone in my opinion that never gave me any software issues or hardware problems besides me physically damaging the unit. I just think apple is too big of a company to be having these problems and inconveniences on these $1200 devices. My device should work properly out of the box. I reset my iPhone and I’m still having these issues. It just sucks because it started occurring after the 2 week grace period for refunds.

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I replaced mine and the new one came with the same problem. I hope they fix it with an iOS update.

I have this glitching lines both with the show background and not show background. The main parameter of this bug is the inclusion of the Always on display mode

I've been without this problem for a while, I haven't done anything different except keeping everything updated. IP16 PM, 512GB, Black, iOS 18.3.1

I have the same problem with iphone 16 pro Max 256g , I didn’t send it to the service yet , but I tried everything still same , it is DEFECT OLED LIGHTS ghostings light pixel .

Looks like 18.5 fixed it. Haven't seen those lines since then. Can anyone confirm?