An iPhone or any smartphone is more or less useless without a working touchscreen. If it fails to respond to your touch, it is a problem you need to solve immediately.
Many factors can cause your iPhone’s touchscreen to stop working or become unresponsive. It may be because of the phone’s software or hardware components.
Unless there is a fatal hardware problem that can only be fixed at a service center, users might be able to resolve the issue with some troubleshooting tips.
A few troubleshooting tips to fix your iPhone touchscreen:
– Restart your device:
If the touchscreen of your iPhone is not working properly, the first thing you can do is restart your device. However, with an unresponsive screen, you will have to restart your phone by pressing some combination of power and volume buttons.
Restarting an iPhone can wipe out temporary glitches in memory, which might restore an unresponsive screen.
– Properly clean the screen:
Dirt, moisture or dampness can affect the way your screen works. The iPhone uses a capacitive touchscreen that senses your fingertips using electrical conductance.
Thoroughly clean and dry your iPhone’s screen and then try using it again.
– Disconnect any accessories from the Lightning port:
In some instances, something plugged into the Lightning port of your phone – like a charger or power bank – could interfere with the proper functioning of your touchscreen.
Unplug any such accessory. If the issue gets resolved, then that particular accessory or cable might be incompatible with the iPhone.
– Remove phone cover and screen guard:
The touchscreen of an iPhone can stop working properly if you use a screen guard that is too thick, making it impossible for the screen to sense the electrical capacitance in your fingers.
Try removing anything on or around the screen, including the phone case. If the screen starts working properly, get a different case and use a thinner screen guard.
– Try Factory reset:
If your iPhone has recently stopped responding to your touch and nothing else has worked so far, you might want to ‘Factory Reset’ your phone. This will reset the phone back to the state it was in when you first bought it.
All your installed apps, software updates and personal data will be wiped off, so maintain a proper backup of your data.
Without the ability to use the iPhone’s touchscreen, …….
