Having touch sensitivity issues on your iPhone 12 or iPhone 13? If you are experiencing slow or unresponsive touch screen issues on your iPhone 12 series, there are solutions you can try to fix the problem.
In this article, we’ll explain some effective tips to improve touch sensitivity on your iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 series. Read on.
Tips to improve touch sensitivity on iPhone 12/iPhone 13
If you have issues with using the touchscreen on your iPhone, you can change how your device responds to your touch by enabling or adjusting the following features.
1. Turn on Reachability
The iPhone’s Reachability feature allows you to bring the items on the top of your phone’s screen to the lower half of your phone’s screen so that you can easily access those items. To enable the feature, follow the steps below:
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Reachability and toggle it On
Now go back to a screen and from the bottom edge of the screen swipe down! That’s all.
2. Adjust Haptic Touch Sensitivity
Haptic touch is a feature that allows you to set how long before your press on the screen should trigger an action. To adjust the amount of time needed for the activation of Haptic Touch, here’s how to do that.
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Haptic Touch and select either Fast or Slow
3. Enable Touch Accommodations
Touch Accommodations allows you to adjust how the screen on your device reacts to your taps, swipes, and other gestures on the screen. If you want to enable this feature, you can do that with the following steps:
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Touch Accommodations
Here you can configure a lot of things which include:
- Hold Duration: Set how long to press on the screen before your touch is registered. Use the +/- buttons to adjust the time duration which is set to 0.10 seconds as default. So, if a touch lasts for 0.10 seconds, your phone will respond to it.
- Swipe Gestures: Adjust how the phone responds to your swiping gestures. For instance, you can determine the amount of movement needed for considering that as a swipe gesture. You can also tell the phone to activate the swipe gesture without waiting for the hold duration defined by you.
- Ignore Repeat: Turn on the option which reads Ignore Repeat. Now use the +/- buttons to adjust the amount of time that you want to allow between two consecutive touches to consider them as multiple touches. Multiple touches within that time will be considered as a single touch.
- Tap Assistance: Should your phone respond to the first place you touch or the last place you touch? Accordingly, either use the ‘Initial Touch Location’ or ‘Final Touch Location.’ If you use the Initial Touch Location, the phone will register the tap in the place where you first place your finger. If you select the other option, the touch will be registered when you lift your finger and your phone will respond only then.
4. Turn off Tap to Wake
With this feature, you can wake up your iPhone by just tapping on the screen. If you don’t want to wake up your phone by tapping the screen unintentionally. If you don’t want this behavior, you can turn it off.
Here’s how to turn the feature off.
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Tap to Wake and toggle it Off
5. Turn off Touch Vibrations
If you prefer not having touch vibration when tapping the keys or icons on the screen, you can turn it off. Here’s how to do that.
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Vibrations and toggle it Off
6. Shake to Undo
If you do not want your phone to undo a previous action when you accidentally shake your phone, you can turn off the action by turning off the Shake to Undo feature. To do that, follow the steps below:
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Shake to Undo and toggle it Off
7. Turn on Back Tap
You can use Back Tap feature to perform certain operations on your device. For instance, you can double-tap or triple-tap your iPhone’s back to scroll up or down, take screenshots, etc. To enable this feature, follow the steps below.
- Go to Settings
- Tap on Accessibility
- Tap on Touch
- Tap on Back Tap
- Choose Double Tap or Triple Tap, then choose an action
Conclusion
iOS 15 has a lot of features that allow you to fine-tune your iPhone’s touch sensitivity to your liking. Adjusting the touch sensitivity of your iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 series can help you achieve that and make your phone work as per your desires and commands.