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A weird glitch with Apple’s iPhone 5 has been uncovered, which sees touch input drop out when the phone’s display is continuously stimulated. It’s pretty niche and unlikely to break anything too seriously, but it might effect some gaming uses if left unchecked.
The glitch was first mentioned in a tweet from a developer, who noticed that if you get very, very bored and start aimlessly flinging the iPhone 5′s screen around rapidly, it will occasionally stop responding to touch input and abandon the order to scroll altogether.
The issue doesn’t occur on iPhone 4S units that have been upgraded to iOS 6, so would appear to be something particular to the hardware of iPhone 5 itself. If you’ve got one, see if you can replicate it. [Recombu]
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I couldn’t get my phone to do it. Although I do have a Nokia 3310.
Badum-Tish!
I though it was a goodum-tish!
Just tried this with my iPhone 5 now, I can confirm that they are right there is some sort of issue.
Yawn…
[Insert singletons only have the problem joke here]
It does it on my iPhone 5. But perhaps it’s a safety feature to stop people getting friction burn on the tips of their fingers.
Ah, so it’s not a fault it’s a feature? Do you work for Apple marketing by any chance? Maybe they’re just holding it wrong
It’s very hard to imply sarcasm in the written word I realise but even I am not that deluded to suggest this is a real ‘feature’.
I did find my eye scanning over the Nexus range earlier however.
It’s ok, I did realise you were being sarcastic/humorous. I was just playing along.
emmm, Could be software still, as they have different builds.
Not much of an issue, someone with an iPhone 5 try this with that Fruit Slash game, Fruit Ninga? see if it also stops reading your touch, it could be within the OS scrolling itself, and not a system wide issue.
Tested with Mail app – Cuts out
Tested with home screen – Cuts out
Tested with Fruit ninja – didn’t cut out
Haunted 3D rollercoaster – didn’t cut out
Geared – Cuts out
Software it is then.
I can confirm that I have scrolling issues with the god awful app store redesign on my iPhone 4
I’m unable to reproduce this on my iPhone 5…
so iPhone are shit…?
What’s new…?
Apple have now confirmed that this seems to be a fault with the human hand on not the iPhone 5, don’t worry there legal team is currently seeking a patient case.
Solution:
Don’t do that.