The bane of most flagship smartphones nowadays is its touchscreen – be it an Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry and others mobile operating system. So when your touchscreen stops working on your iPhone (be it your iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus) or your iPod touch it becomes a problem.
So what can cause touchscreen unusual issues or un-responsiveness – it could be as a result of constant usage which sometimes result in some unusual actions like sudden crashing of app(s) and thus the touchscreen goes unresponsive.
There might be legitimate reasons for such unusual events, after all, it’s just a man made device. Complain no more and follow the below guide to see what you can do when your iPhone screen becomes unresponsive.
How To Resolve Your iPhone TouchScreen issues
Alternative One: Restart The iPhone
One of the easiest and fastest means of resolving unusual event on your phone is by powering down your mobile phone and restarting it after a while. Switch of your iPhone; wait for a while and then restart it. Hopefully, the touch screen will start functioning properly
Alternative Two: Resetting the iPhone
Follow this step carefully, if the simple switching off your phone option didn’t do what you needed.
• Switch and restart your iPhone.
• Delete or Refresh all the recent apps from the task manager.
• Do the hard reset option on your iPhone by pressing the power and home button together until your device reboots.
• After rebooting, manually do a factory reset.
• Go-to Settings – General – Reset – Reset All Settings.
• Change your device wallpaper
• Finally, restart your phone again and be rest assured of a working perfectly touchscreen response
N.B: Reduce the high heavy constant use and always remember to refresh your task manager and avoid using live wallpapers also.
Alternative Three: Seeking Professional Help
Now this is the part most people dread so much; after coughing so much for an iPhone the last thing they would be thinking about is visiting a repair house.
This step should only be considered after one has tried the two alternatives above and the iPhone touchscreen is still unresponsive. If you have warranty on your device you should try and exercise your right by going back to where you got the device.
Getting a professional to do the job for you will save you so much stress and would cost you a few bucks.
That’s all for resolving iPhone touchscreen issues; have you ever had issues with your touchscreen on iPhone? How did you go about resolving the issue, let us know using the below comment box.
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