Is your iPhone 6 suffering from 'touch disease'?

Just two weeks before the launch of iPhone 7, Apple looks in for a trouble, which might affect the sales of the much awaited September launch.

iFixit's- a repair firm - report, is confirming rounds of complaints about failing touchscreens for the iPhone 6. The post has labeled the error as "touch disease", which occurs when users notice a flickering gray bar at the top of the screen and find the touchscreen becoming unresponsive.

Though there are temporary fixes, but the disease will come back and attack your iPhone 6 vigorously making the touchscreen functionality to die altogether.

The post from iFixit quotes a number of repair specialists who’ve encountered the problem, including Jason Villmer, owner of STS Telecom—a board repair shop in Missouri who says “This issue is widespread enough that I feel like almost every iPhone 6/6+ has a touch of the disease and are like ticking bombs just waiting to act up.” He sees phones like this several times a week.

Santa Clara, CA, who went to Apple store to rectify the issue was told, "Apple doesn’t recognize it (touch disease) as an issue, and so there is not much we can do.”

According to Engadget report, the problem resides with the Touch IC chips inside the phone. It separates from the logic board in a manner similar to the one that caused Microsoft's Xbox 360 death. "Apple's in-store Geniuses are not equipped to do that kind of soldering work”.

Micro soldering specialist Jessa Jones tells iFixit that a metal shield soldered over the sticker shield on iPhones seems to fix the issue indefinitely, offering an "internal reinforcement," a "future proof shield.”

However, as mentioned above, these kinds of fixes or issues aren't approved by Apple. Due to which Jessa, and her colleagues have actually been banned from posting on Apple Support threads for posting their advice.

This kind of approach from Apple might leave millions of owners of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus question whether they should move on to the next iPhone.