Technology | iPhone 4 Careful How You Hold the iPhone—It Can Lose Reception Users complain of weird tech glitch if you touch antenna By sean brady Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT Promoted on Newser Jun 24, 2010 12:46 PM CDT Copied Piotr Kubiak of Oakland, Ill., shows off his new Apple iPhone 4. (AP) When you hold the iPhone in your hands and touch the outside antenna band in two spots, it can drop reception (or at least lose bars). Put the phone down and your bars return. Gizmodo has the details of this odd glitch along with reader-submitted videos of the problem. (A rubber case seems to solve it.) Read the full article. More info at Wired. Read These Next CBS News boss pulls 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump policy. Kansas City Chiefs moving across state line. Feds strike another blow in war on wind turbines. Trump makes a new move on Greenland, and Denmark isn't happy. Report an error