Warning about Direct Touch before you update to iOS 16

Came across this post about 10 minutes too late. MBraille is affected by this, at least on my IPhone 10 R. I very rarely update on the first day, but did today. Very much regretting the choice, as MBraille is a pretty big productivity booster for me.

hello all,

I don't know why a subject of 'warning' is needed here. this does not affect everybody: direct touch works for me, and that is as of iOS 16 Developer beta 1. yeah, it affects some, and you point that out, but posting the subject you did is misleading, as most people don't use direct touch anyway. as for MBraille, it's a waist of money, braille screen input is built-in, and just as good. I have an iPhone SE, Second Generation for reference, 256 GB, Product Red. this is most likely model specific.

Your subject is not misleading in the least. In fact I will not update because of your post, as I don’t want to find out if my device will be affected from the direct Touch issue or not.
Thanks a lot for the warning.

With direct-touch so badly broken it of course broke Blindfold games. What I didn't expect was that once you tried to use it nothing else worked well anywhere else. None of the buttons under settings worked until I did a full shutdown and restart. Also the typing keyboard refused to appear when I tried to turn off "find my iphone". It indicated I could type but no keyboard appeared. I had to use a bluetooth keyboard instead. Touch screen on my 12pro is sluggish from power on and seems to get worse over time. I'm trying to revert to IOS 15.7 as I write this. I have never seen so many problems with a new IOS and I go back to the days of the original iPad and iPhone 4s.
Adding to earlier post the final blow was when I found IOS 16.0 direct-touch or not also broke Heytel. When you enter Heytel it starts recording a message to the last person you received one from When you exit the app it then sends what it recorded. I use the app constantly and have for probably 10 years. I can't remember when it was released but it is my main link to my partner and family. It became completely unusable. Word of warning, do your back-up before you upgrade! I usual do but forgot. End result, complete wipe of phone with loss of everything. Had to download the ipw for IOS 15.6.1 and start from scratch.

I’m not opening any direct touch apps until this bug is fixed

Hi! I installed IOS 15 on my iPhone SE 2020 yesterday afternoon. After reading this thread today, I tested two games which use Direct Touch, Blindfold Tile Puzzle and FEER, and both are working properly, as they did for me in IOS 15. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, but I'm sorry to hear that others have not been able to use apps which need Direct Touch since they updated their i-devices.

I haven't tried any of the Blindfold games yet so can't speak for those. Maybe I'm also one of the lucky ones, but I sure hope they fix this ASAP.

Direct touch is working for me. Does anyone know what is causing the bug?

I'd be curious to know which devices people are using that have direct touch working? On my 10 R I'm having no luck. If there was someone with the same phone having success I may try things like resetting to factory settings. Just don't want to go through the hassle if it's unlikely to fix the problem.

I sure hope you won't have to reset your phone.

I have a iphone 12 and its working fine. Could the bug be caused by something like the app switcher bug, that invert colors triggers it?

My app switcher is working fine. Have never used invert colors. But I do have poorly performing direct touch, and the strange behavior with voiceover not being able to activate things in the settings app and editing the home screen for no reason after launching apps with direct touch.

now that I think about it, the subject is not misleading at all. direct touch works fine for me, I have an iPhone SE, Second generation for reference. direct touch worked fine for me since iOS 16 developer beta 1.

You can also go into a direct touch app, and use your rotor and turn off direct touch. Yes, that takes patience, but I feel more comfortable doing that than restarting my phone, and possibly losing speech. Because I keep my brightness at zero, and my screen curtain on, and sighted help wouldn't be able to help. So, pick your poison basically.

I am using an SE 2020 and since I updated to IOS 16 I too, can not play Blindfold Solotaire. I spend a lot of time with this app and this is pretty bad. Is there some sort of fix for the Direct Touch problem?

Don't get me wrong, reporting this is crucial, but until we find out what's the cause behind direct touch not working, what is causing it ,to trigger... reporting it will only do so much without ideas as to what causes the problem. I mean, there has to be a reason why this is affecting some users, but not others; this is not random, there must be a specific configuration or something that is causing this behavior.

Hi Daniel Angus MacDonald!

I am glad that braille screen input is working for you, but for others MBraille is a much better tool than just a keyboard.

I have used it for years, and where the productivity works is for me when composing longer texts in different languages and how fast I can edit and spellcheck my work. For me the braille screen input is by far slower than using MBraille and especially editing and spellchecking can get a little slow, at least for me.

I have seen this on different devices, and I have seen a message from the MBraille developer saying that the issue is in iOS itself. He linked to an article that explains this issue, and that big games are affected as well.

I guess we will see a fix from Apple very soon, since this issue is for a huge customer base.

This is great news. MBraille seems to be functional again. I actually had to remove it from my dock in 16.0 because of the number of times I was opening it by reflex. Happy for this fix.

Hi,
I have an iPhone SE 2020 as my gaming device for Bitlife, among other games that require direct touch. I'm still on iOS 15, is it safe to update? Quite frankly, I'm afraid to take the plunge, seeing how I play bitlife pretty much every night before going to sleep.

I tried a game yesterday, Blindfold Color Crush, and Direct Touch was still acting weird. I'm on the beta, so I'm guessing the fix hasn't made it here.

Hi, after updating to iOS 16.0.2 on my iPhone 13, direct touch seems to be working fine now. It's great to be enjoying Blindfold Color Crush once again! Well done Apple for fixing this so quickly.

Anyone still use MBraille for a third party keyboard? I love typing with it, but usually just open the app and type from within the app. However, tonight I thought I'd try and switch to MBraille in the messages app. It works fine for my first message, but after I dismiss the keyboard and send the message, if I tap to enable it again, all it says is "direct touch enabled". I am running the latest update of iOS. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh, I did find that turning Voiceover on and off fixed the problem, but only for the next message. Thanks for any help.