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iPhone X not very happy in the Cold

  • by Mark Townsend
  • 15 Nov, 2017

OLED Touchscreen becomes unresponsive in cold weather

With winter on its way it seems there is an issue with the iPhone X when you head outside after being in a warm environment. Within a couple of seconds the OLED Touchscreen becomes unresponsive and finger swipes are ignored. The Register added the humorous line "you're colding it wrong" with reference to Apple's comment that customers were holding the phone wrong when Face Recognition stopped working. 

Apple have acknowledged the problem and are planning to resolve it with an upcoming ios Firmware update although updating Firmware isn't what you would normally expect to fix this type of issue. Read the full story here:

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/iphone_x_cold/
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