Troubleshooting Guides to Fix iPhone Ghost Touch

 iPhone ghost touch means that the iPhone pops up being touched by itself as if it is operated automatically or by other people we cannot see. This may seem a little scary yet it can be fixed by many easy methods. So just check out this article.

First, why does the iPhone appear ghost touch? many models including iPhone XR, iPhone 8,7, and etc showing ghost touch may be attributed to a wrong display, injured screen factors, software glitches and errors, defective digital manufacturing, and the like. 

The Best Way

Now let's look at the best way to solve the iPhone ghost touch. That is using TunesKit iOS System Recovery. It is a relatively popular program to bring your iOS system back to normal with almost every problem solved. It fixes all iOS and tvOS system issues including iPhone recovery mode, white Apple logo, black screen, Apple TV issues, etc. Besides, there is no data loss after the reparation with standard mode. Moreover, it supports diverse devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV, and all iOS versions, including the latest iOS 13. Finally, it has a simple interface that is easily understood and operated by customers.

To repair the iPhone ghost touch screen issue, you just follow three steps.

Step 1: Firstly, open TunesKit iOS System Recovery for Windows on your computer. Then you have to connect your iPhone till it's detected. Next, click the "Start" button. Next, choose the "Standard Mode" and "Next". You have to select which device you've connected. Then follow the instructions from the interface and let your device is into DFU mode. After that, click the "Next" button.

Step 2: The application will download the firmware package matched to your device after finishing the first step. Before that, you have to make sure the device info is correct, including the model version, iOS version, etc. You can correct it if there's anything wrong. If all information is correct, click the "Download" and it will start downloading and verifying the firmware.

Step 3: When the firmware has been downloaded successfully, you just click the "Repair" button and the program will automatically begin to fix your iPhone. Don’t disconnect your device until the process is completed. Otherwise, the device might become bricked.

Other Methods

1. Clean the Touchscreen of Your iPhone

You may wonder why cleaning iPhone touchscreen works. It is because some dust and particles on your iPhone may make the device act on its own, especially when the dust is accumulated after a quite long time. It is simple for you to clean the iPhone touchscreen. Before starting, you have to switch the iPhone off and unplug all connected cables. Then you are supposed to get a clean and uncouth cloth or tissue paper with some water. Lastly, you can begin wiping your device’s screen from the top to the end in a gentle manner.

2. Remove Your iPhone Screen Protector

Although the screen protector is usually employed by users to keep the iPhone from scratch, it may sometimes cause some issues about operations like ghost touch. Under such circumstances, you have to take off your iPhone’s screen protector to get the problem solved. Take it from one corner and then step by step, slowly remove it completely.

3. Take off Your iPhone’s Case

Similar to the screen protectors, iPhone’s case also leads to ghost touch problems. When you find that your device’s screen is slightly twisted, you can take away the case of your iPhone. As the hard case may occasionally twist your iPhone’s screen. The iPhone ghost touch screen problem may be fixed after removing the case.

4. Restart Your Device

Whenever the iPhone gets wrong, most people always let their iPhone power off and restart them first. You can also have a try to restart your iPhone after having used above quick fixes which cannot solve the problem as expected.

If you use iPhone X and later, press the slide and volume button. When the slide to power off signal shows, slide it to the right.

If your device is the iPhone 8 and earlier, press the top button and you will see a power-off sign, then swipe it to the right.

5.  Recover iPhone by Putting it into Recovery Mode

If restarting iPhone doesn’t help you, to put your iPhone into recovery mode may also do the trick. But recovering iPhone might cause some data loss. So you are suggested to do data backup before putting the iPhone into recovery mode.

Please follow these steps to get the iPhone into recovery mode.

Step 1: Click iTunes on your computer and connect your device.

Step 2: Hold and release the volume up and down button respectively.

Step 3: Press the side button and enter the recovery mode.

Step 4: Finally click update or restore.

6. Factory Reset Your iPhone

A factory reset usually can fix the problem of ghost touch on the iPhone, because it can remove some settings that cause the problem. But this method will remove all data of your iPhone. So you are suggested to backup data before you try the following steps.

To factory reset your iPhone, go to Settings, then the General, next to the Reset, and finally Erase all Contents and Settings. Enter the device's passcode when prompted and then click on "Erase iPhone" to complete the process.

7. Restore Your iPhone via iTunes

If the above methods don’t work, then you are suggested to try to restore your iPhone in iTunes. If you don’t mind the data loss, you can follow the following steps:

Step 1: Open the iTunes and connect your iPhone to the computer.

Step 2: Click the iPhone icon when the iPhone appears in iTunes successfully.

Step 3: Click “Restore iPhone” in the column of Summary.

Step 4: Click “Restore” again to make sure the process works well and then iTunes will restore the device connected to the factory settings.

8. Contact Apple

If you got this far, it might mean the problem is not solved yet. Then the final try should be bringing your iPhone to the Apple store. The store will provide free and authorized service to make the ghost touch on your iPhone fixed. But first, you have to make sure you have got data backups by iTunes and iCloud.

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