iPhone 5 Diagonal Swiping Bug? [Video]

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Posted November 10, 2012 at 2:33am by Shalom Levytam

CMA Megacorp, game developers, have reportedly spotted a diagonal swiping bug with the iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 5G.

iPhone 5 touch screen bug? Slide finger back and forth diagonally on screen, input events drop out or stop altogether.

Recombu put the bug to the test and found touch recognition was indeed affect by high speed scrolling.

Using the two iPhone 4Ss on the most recent versions of iOS and the same split on two iPhone 5s, we testing the theory that the diagonal scrolling input drops out on the newer handsets at high speed. The problem is exacerbated by scrolling diagonally and as you can see only occurs on the iPhone 5s.

Take a look at the video below...

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Tony - November 12, 2012 at 12:36am

I don't think this is a bug. It might be intended to stop rapid swiping like that.

D@rkos - November 13, 2012 at 3:56am

u need this thing in games and Fruit Ninja the easiest example !!

Andrew - November 11, 2012 at 9:34pm

I'm getting this issue on my iPT5 running iOS 6.0.

HJ - November 11, 2012 at 5:53am

Experienced this while playing temple run. Every few minutes the phone just won't respond to my swiping gestures, and then I just die (in the game). iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Marco - November 11, 2012 at 12:08am

I have an iphone 5 and it works very well .. I don't know what you are talking about ..

notabug - November 10, 2012 at 11:47pm

This is a software bug. I have an iPhone 5 and can repeat the bug in the Mail app. If it were a hardware fault it should also happen in other use situations. Try dragging the notification center down most of the way and start swiping up and down as fast as you can. It will not lock up.

Pierre - November 10, 2012 at 10:22pm

I manged to get the freeze on a 4s with 6.0

iMadi - November 10, 2012 at 8:32pm

I tested this extensively and nothing happened; it just works smoothly. If the concern is Fruit Ninja, it should be tested there instead of the Mail app. I don't think people would do this in real life.

Peter - November 10, 2012 at 8:19pm

I tried and tried and my phone doesn't lock up. I have A1429 64gig iPhone 5 firm-6.0.1.

Max - November 10, 2012 at 6:28pm

Same thing happens with my iPod touch 5G! iOS6.0

Lov3 - November 10, 2012 at 6:03pm

Omg, i cannot make high score on fruit ninja with my iphone 5 :(

iRritated - November 10, 2012 at 4:49pm

Happened on my i5 iOS 6.0. I hope it's software, I also hope we see a jailbreak soon -_-

iFlickr - November 10, 2012 at 3:24pm

I tried it my self nothing happen every thing is fine but , when ur finger tuch the blue area it will stop even in a iphone 4s tested also i tried 100 time , anyway thanks for the video

MIguel - November 10, 2012 at 2:04pm

Who will do it in real life???

Fontie - November 10, 2012 at 8:35am

Happening on my ip5 same as the video, would be interesting to see how this pans out. Software or hardware bug. I got my ip5 on release day so it a early batch.

6italia0 - November 10, 2012 at 8:24am

Nope not an issue for me, tried to replicate on my 5 on 6.0.1. Must've faulty digitizer a in an earlier batch of 5's from the factory

Sam - November 10, 2012 at 6:13am

Hmm I've been having weird stop lags durin infinity blade 2. I think this is the reason why now.

Simon - November 10, 2012 at 6:00am

It's a software glitch probably. I'm sure it will be taken care of in ios6.

iOS 6.1 I meant

Mike - November 10, 2012 at 4:59am

Ok I have a iPhone 4S running 5.1.1 and I was able to get to freeze as well, even as I changed my swiping to the vertical or horizontal swip it still stayed frozen until I stopped and everything worked fine, so it's not just the iPhone 5

odedoo1 - November 10, 2012 at 4:45am

it probably does it when the screen gets hot I don't I'm happy that I waited with getting the 5 I keep hearing of bugs but you guys that got an iPhone 5 try doing it while moving your finger from side to side so the touch screen won't get hot I wonder if that the problem

Jpf55 - November 10, 2012 at 3:21am

I have an iPhone 4 and I've had this since IOS 6.

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