iPhone 5 will not swipe to unlock but digitizer works?

Held the home button and power button at same time, apple appeared, released home and power button phone reset without having to power down to reset.

"Ok let me add this

I work for a repair shop and replaced my iPhone 5 screen 2 weeks ago already on 9.2 and it worked great for couple weeks then the touch started to move by itself and would take 10 secs to unlock so I couldn't answer calls

I cleaned and checked the cable was connected ok but nothing helped untill I removed the screen covered the touch connector with flux and did a solder reflow plus clean again

Now the touch works fine when using the phone untill it's left locked for more then 5mins then the swipe to unlock will fail the 1st try 2 sec delay but before repair it would take 10 secs to work so it's better and shows no fault in normal use

It's odd how a screen can work fine untill locked and not be software maybe it's both I did try the 9.2.1 beta it didn't help"

"I had an iPhone 5c with this problem. The phone responded to touch by surrounding the text on the screen with a box and speaking the word, or words, displayed. This is an accessibility feature named VoiceOver. There was no response to swiping the screen.

On Apple's support site I found a post by hayblacksupport, with this solution. Tap the home button three times rapidly. This is a shortcut for turning accessibility features on or off. This home button shortcut can be turned on or off in settings.

http://www.imore.com/how-set-triple-home..."

"Were you able to diagnose or fix this problem ?

I have the same problem. Have tried everything but no go.

Any ideas would be really helpful."

Experience this all the time... faulty digitizer, touch screen doesn't work in certain areas. it needs replacing.