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Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. It also represents yet another chapter in the long history of Apple and Google borrowing from each other, and in this case it’s an entirely sensible imitation. But it’s still a major improvement over the old routine of invoking iOS’s recent-apps list with a double-tap of the home button, then selecting the previous app from that list. That button is so tiny it’s easily missed, a point the Nielsen Norman Group makes it in its critique of the feature. Tap it, and the Mail app replaces Safari on the screen.

One feature in Apple’s iOS 9 that I’ve been using increasingly often doesn’t even appear in Apple’s list of new iOS features: a small “Back to.” button that appears at the top left corner of the screen when a link or function in one app sends you to another app.įor example, if I tap a link in an e-mail message and that page opens in Safari, you’ll see a “Back to Mail” button in that corner. If the digitizer on an old phone starts to lose its mind, you’re better off cutting your losses and getting a new phone. And as Wiens said, if the repair isn’t done right you can still wind up with a degraded digitizer.

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That’s a task that either requires professional help or serious technical skills, as you can see in iFixit’s screen-replacement guides for the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S5. Should this issue resurface, you might as well try a factory reset here’s Apple’s advice and here’s Google’s on that procedure.īut if that, too, fails, you will probably have to replace the digitizer - which usually means replacing the entire screen, since the digitizer and the LCD are generally built as an integrated assembly. The problem may go away, in which case you should immediately do as complete of a backup as is possible. If, however, your first sign of trouble is the phone going haywire, shut it down before the hyperactive digitizer can start calling or texting friends on your behalf.

Or, if you’ve enabled the Settings app’s hidden Developer Options menu, you can activate a 'Pointer Location' option there that draws a thin line everywhere the screen senses your touch.

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In Android, you can also check its accuracy with apps like the free Screen Touch Test. You may get some advance warning of this condition in the form of certain parts of your screen no longer responding to a tap.

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A little searching quickly located reports of these touchscreen-freakout symptoms on an iPhone and an iPad Android phones from Motorola, HTC and Sony and a Nokia Windows Phone. No touchscreen gadget seems immune to this malfunction. I saw this happen on my own phone (I verified that this Android device hadn’t been hacked by doing a complete reset), and I can attest firsthand that a failing digitizer can make for a completely unusable phone. He added that a digitizer can start to go bad if a phone isn’t put together correctly, either at the factory or after repair. It’s a common result of water or moisture getting into a display, said iFixit founder Kyle Wiens in an e-mail. If that layer of circuitry starts to go bad, spooky if not outright alarming behavior can result. When you see a smartphone or tablet go berserk like this, bouncing from app to app faster than you could hope to accomplish, it’s easy to think some sort of malware is at fault.īut the problem is this case probably lies in the device’s hardware - specifically, the digitizer under the screen that registers the taps and swipes of your fingers. My phone started opening apps and switching among them all by itself.

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