How to Fix Ghost Touches on iPhone

Is your iPhone screen randomly registering touches and making your controls go crazy while you are using an app or playing a game? There’s an Accessibility Setting called Ignore Repeat that can help with this.

The setting is buried deep inside the Touch Accommodations feature. This can be useful if you are dealing with accidental repeated touches or if a game is registering multiple taps when you only meant to tap once.

This works by preventing the iPhone from registering repeated touches within a short period of time. The touches in the selected duration are treated as a single touch while any subsequent touches are ignored for a specific time.

Fix Ghost Touches on iPhone

To enable Ignore Repeat setting, follow these steps.

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap on Accessibility.
3. Here tap on Touch Accommodations.
4. Turn on the toggle for Touch Accommodations.
5. Next tap on Settings option.
6. Now turn on Ignore Repeat.

After this setting has been enabled, if you tap the screen and your finger accidentally stays there or you quickly touch the same area again, the iPhone can ignore those additional touches instead of treating every single one as a separate input.

This can be useful when playing certain games where accidental repeated touches can mess up your controls or when you are experiencing ghost touches issues caused by rapid or repeated touch input.

You can test different Ignore Repeat durations by changing the Seconds setting beneath its toggle.

Quickly toggle Ignore Repeat on/off

While the Ignore Repeat setting can be helpful, it can also make using the iPhone and performing everday tasks like typing more difficult.

You can fix this by adding Ignore Repeat to AssistiveTouch menu, and only enabling this feature when you need it.

To add Ignore Repeat to AssistiveTouch follow these steps.

1. Open Settings and go to Accessibility.
2. Here, tap on Accessibility Shortcut.
3. From the list make sure to select Touch Accomodations.

So if you’re having problems with unwanted repeated touches on your iPhone, give Touch Accommodations and Ignore Repeat a try.