Hi guys, David and David here from payetteforward.com and upphone.com, and in this video, we're
going to explain what to do when your iPhone screen is glitching.
There are a lot of different reasons why your iPhone screen might be doing this, so let's
start with the easiest one first, and that is to hard reset your iPhone.
If you have an iPhone 6s and older, it's the power button and the Home button.
Hold them simultaneously — hold them 15-20 seconds, until the Apple logo appears on the
screen, and then let go.
iPhone 7 is the volume down button and the power button — same thing.
Press and hold at the same time.
iPhone 8 and newer, press and release volume up, press and release volume down, press and
hold side until the Apple logo appears on the screen.
Just don't let go until that Apple over does reappear on the screen.
So step number two is to turn off auto-brightness.
We actually received some comments saying that this fix the problem also you might think
your screen is glitching because it's going you know, bright bright and dark dark bright
dark bright dark now iOS 12 actually moved auto-brightness.
So we're going to show you how to do that open the Settings app.
Scroll down and tap General.
Scroll down to Accessibility, tap Display Accommodations, and there is the auto-brightness
switch.
When it's green, that means auto-brightness is on.
You can just tap it — now auto-brightness is off.
Yep.
Try using your iPhone a little bit.
Yeah.
Maybe it's fixed.
Maybe it's not.
If it's not, we want to talk about the physical problems on the outside of the iPhone that
can cause this problem.
So the first thing to do is to take it out of the case, and also maybe you have a screen
protector on it.
Just taking it out of my own case right now.
Unless you do this, it's hard to know whether the case is actually causing the problem,
because the way the touchscreen works is it detects changes in the electrical current
that your finger makes when it touches the screen, because our bodies are conductive.
That's why it doesn't work with a glove.
Is what conductive because we're made of mostly water.
But mostly water, as they said the original Star Trek.
You are over 90% water surrounded by a flexible container.
So wipe it off to microfiber cloth.
Microfiber cloth is the best, you know.
Just try it outside of the case.
If you have a screen protector and it's stuck on there and it's really in bad shape, you
might want to get a new one or try taking it off.
And just for the record, these phones are really resilient to scratches.
They used to be pretty vulnerable to that, but I don't know.
Screens now, they've got the oleophobic coating on it.
Right, which has to do with the fingerprints, not the screen scratching.
But it's totally the same thing.
Yeah.
So next up.
So next up is the — is it glitching in a specific app?
Because sometimes you might have downloaded a bad app, and every time you open it your
screen kind of goes crazy.
If that's happening, close the app, open it again, and see if that fixes the problem.
Otherwise, you might just want to delete the app.
I will show you how to do that real quick.
Yeah.
I got an app I want to delete.
How about Ghost Radar?
Lightly press and hold the app icon until the Xs appear.
Tap the X, tap delete, and now the app is gone.
If you press and hold too hard, you will activate 3D touch, so just be careful about that.
Let me — my iPhone screen is just glitching out just now.
Wow.
Yeah, so I gotta wipe it off.
I took it out of the case and stop working.
Well anyway, like David said delete the app.
Yeah, delete.
Yeah.
Pretty different — find an alternative.
I mean, they're usually — the App Store's pretty good about filtering, and obviously,
bad apps are occasionally going to get through.
Yeah, I guess what we're talking about is, is this a problem that specific to an app,
as you said, or is it happening all the time when you use your phone?
Yeah, if your screen is actually flickering, it could be a hardware problem.
Not necessarily, but the worse off it is, the more deep we have to go with the fixes.
So the next one is the deepest type of software fix.
That is — that is the DFU restore.
DFU stands for device firmware update.
Firmware is the software for the hardware.
It lives in between the software, which is like the operating system and the apps, and
the actual hardware on your phone.
And if the firmware gets screwed up, all sorts of bad things can happen.
So, the screen has firmware.
To DFU restore your phone, check our link in a card above and description section below.
We'll walk through the whole process.
Pretty simple to do.
If the DFU restore doesn't fix your iPhone, it's almost certainly a hardware problem.
Right.
There is a little bit of a fix that we haven't — I wasn't going to talk about it.
Let's go for it.
But sometimes you can fix these types of problems, like, let's say you dropped your phone and
all of a sudden it started to glitch, but maybe there's no damage on the outside of
your phone.
There are little connections inside of your iPhone where the screen connects to the logic
board.
If those connections become loose, your screen can start to flicker or glitch out — either
the touch screen part or the display part or both.
So a lot of those connections sort of live up in here, in this part, and you can apply
some pressure in here sometimes and just press down.
Be careful because if you press too hard, you can crack the screen — crack an iPhone.
And it is in different places on different phone modest.
Correct, it is, but they're generally all up in here.
Okay, but I would check ifixit.com.
Yes, especially for an older phone it might be in a different spot, but I actually was
able to fix some of these problems.
I was in an AT&T store once and these people walked in, and I walked up to them and I was
like, I'll make it — try this, Magic Touch.
Yeah.
So if the MacGyver solution, as it's called in the article, it would be — if the DFU
restore doesn't work, it's probably a hardware problem.
Great repair option, Apple Store if you have AppleCare+.
Also, this might be a good time to consider getting a new phone if the display is broken
and you got an old phone and it cost a lot to fix.
Yeah.
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Correct.
Yeah.
So that's what to do when your iPhone screen is glitching.
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