Touch Disease 6 plus
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Quick google suggests there is a repair program.
I managed to 'fix' my wife's 6 Plus with this by taking it apart and putting a thick thermal pad on top of the affected chip on the PCB. The theory being that the pressure put on the chip would help the broken solder balls contact again. This was back in August last year if I remember rightly and it's still going strong. I figured even if it only lasted a couple of months it would be better than nothing but here's hoping it'll last at least until the next iPhone since the 6S and 7 have been a waste of time.
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yeah at a cost of £150 to me that seems like a design flaw by Apple
Seemed to indicate free if its the proven design flaw.
do you have a link please . everything I've read said there are court cases against Apple in the USA and Canada in progress at the moment but could take years
Fair play , i had a look at the home fix ' looks far beyond my capability's
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I had this problem. I just complained HARD to EE and eventually they decided it was just easier to give me a new phone.
Touch disease sucks.
Touch disease sucks.
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Yeah I had that stuff, ended up buying a screen off zon for £35 quid(was out of warranty when it happened ironically 
), didn't really fix it though, think I bent the metal piece and can hear what sounds like one of the chips in the top corner rattling around, so in the end I managed to get an identical model(well less storage) from my mum who upgraded, other than cracking the screen last night, this one doesn't have the disease.
There's so many different variations for the cause, think for me with the sound of a rattling chip, that phone needs a new logic board, but people are selling decent 6/6 plus from £140 so I wouldn't pay more than £40 for a screen etc.
), didn't really fix it though, think I bent the metal piece and can hear what sounds like one of the chips in the top corner rattling around, so in the end I managed to get an identical model(well less storage) from my mum who upgraded, other than cracking the screen last night, this one doesn't have the disease.There's so many different variations for the cause, think for me with the sound of a rattling chip, that phone needs a new logic board, but people are selling decent 6/6 plus from £140 so I wouldn't pay more than £40 for a screen etc.
I am currently with EE and within the last 2 weeks it has got worse and worse and the top quarter of the screen just will not register any touch at all, very annoying.
Not sure what EE are like in terms of sending away to get fixed but I am on contract with an iPhone 6S Plus which I got in November 2016 so wondering if they would replace it or repair it? Guessing they will "Try" and repair first so save money, just hoping they have a loan phone in I can use.
Not sure what EE are like in terms of sending away to get fixed but I am on contract with an iPhone 6S Plus which I got in November 2016 so wondering if they would replace it or repair it? Guessing they will "Try" and repair first so save money, just hoping they have a loan phone in I can use.
what was the outcome ?
Quoting myself here, I had a fully working phone at the time!
The phone has quite recently developed this touch disease problem. It doesn't happen all of the time but often enough to be annoying. I can make it work again by twisting the phone slightly, but I'd rather not keep doing that.
It's a shame as I was hoping to sell the phone on, or possibly see how much Apple would give me for it now I have an X on order.
Has anyone managed to get this repaired without having to pay the £150 Apple want for it?
I had considered trying to repair it myself using the thermal pad suggestion earlier in the thread, but I suppose Apple would notice this during their evaluation of the phone.