Let E and F be two Banach spaces. Let \(g: E\rightarrow F\) be an \(\varepsilon \) -phase isometry for some \(\varepsilon \ge 0\) (i.e., for all \(u,v\in E\) \(|\; |\Vert g(u)+g(v)\Vert \pm \Vert g(u)-g(v)\Vert |-|\Vert u+v\Vert \pm \Vert u-v\Vert |\;|\le \varepsilon ).\) In particular, g is said a phase isometry if \(\varepsilon =0\) . Then we study the relationship between \(\varepsilon \) -phase isometry and phase isometry from E to F. Finally, we study a Hyers–Ulam type problem for \(\varepsilon \) -phase isometries.