Vertical lines on screen and poor picture quality

I have a 14 month old iphone 5 which is immaculate, never been dropped or damaged. Suddenly yesterday I started to get vertical white lines and squares on my display and screen quality and brightness had deterioted. Will Apple repair or replace for free? I have made an appointment at the Genius Bar for Tuesday but just wondered if anyone else had experienced a similar problem.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If you have the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video chip, you could be developing this problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
Do you get the same thing on an external display? If so, that would point to the video chip. If the external is OK, then there is a problem with the built-in display or its connections and/or cables.
Good luck!

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jzdcbland,
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Genius Bar reservation
http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
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Thanks
Bill Bennett
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:33:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using Premiere Pro CS3 When exporting as flash file poor picture quality
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