Comments on: Is The iPhone Home Button Not Working? Here’s How To Fix It

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:16:23 +0000

Great Tip, it is more responsive than earlier.

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:24:31 +0000

Wow, this worked!!!!!! I thought something was physically wrong, but recalibrating it did the trick. Amazing, thank you!!!!! What a funny way to make that work!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:29:52 +0000

The first fix (“recalibrating”) worked wonders, thank you sooo much!!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:32:28 +0000

Thank you so much, home button on my almost new replacement iPad was not responding right away and decided to try this before taking it into the apple store and it seems this did the trick! Thanks!!

By: Yaara Lancet

Yaara Lancet — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:07:12 +0000

Interesting way to clean the home button, I’m amazed it works!

By: Maura

Maura — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:11:04 +0000

I tried the first option using the power & the home button. It took 3 attempts but on the 3rd try both the “slide to power off” screen and Notes closed for me. I reopened it and it closed fine. I also tried it with Calendar and it worked too. Thank you for posting this tip.

By: Unizombie

Unizombie — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:41:12 +0000

You are a goddess, for some reason my phones home button hadn’t been working and assistive touch didn’t either. I’ve been hitting the home button then holding the power button down which may or may not work for closing an app, and after closing it turns off (to home screen) the force quit worked, thanks. I don’t know how I would live without being able to quickly transfer between apps. ;*

By: jowie

jowie — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:28:35 +0000

tried this one but didnt work, but there’s one unusual thing that i do to fix it, my friend suggest this one and it works, Hold ur iphone facing down and flick the home button, but not to hard, youll notice that dust comes out, repeat process if necessary, now my iphone has a soft touch home button

By: phoebe

phoebe — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:13:38 +0000

You are AWESOME thank you! You saved me and my phone! I totally can’t afford a new phone at the moment… thank you!

By: Yaara Lancet

Yaara Lancet — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:47:59 +0000

I didn't really understand what's happening, exactly, but since I don't own an iPhone myself, only an iPad, I won't be much help. I suggest that you try asking on MakeUseOf Answers, someone there might know what's going on.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:44:58 +0000

Hi,
I have same problem but only thing is VOICE CONTROL keeps coming on and then it makes calls to other people and after removing all contacts still it will call a random number and voice control still comes on every 5 seconds ….it seems like home key is being pressed automatically …any help please
thanks

By: Khan

Khan — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:47:09 +0000

Thanks Yaara. I woke up today with an unresponsive home button. After going through the standard parental procedure of blaming the kids, I tried to call the Apple premium reseller which unfortunately would not answer.
I came across your article and tried it . Initially for two times, didn’t work, on the third time the app did shut down but the button was still unresponsive. I tried it again and the button got a bit better. I decided to clean the ipad and button and on a scale of 1 to 10 , it’s an 8 now. Thanks a lot. You saved me a lot of headache and the trip to the store. My thoughts though are that it’s necessary to keep the screen clean or all the dirt tracks down to the button causing an electromechanical reset. More like your iPads way of telling you it’s time you quit your sloppy habits and start paying a bit on my attention on me as well.
Thanks a million again.

By: diego

diego — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:53:16 +0000

NICE im was so pissed off with it and finally fixed it but i still got that feeling that it might lag stop at times even tho it doesnt

By: Jaco

Jaco — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:30:47 +0000

Fantastic!
My New iPhone 5 home button worked about half the time. I was about to ask apple care to give me a new one. The reset trick worked like a charm!
Thank you!!!!

By: Yaara Lancet

Yaara Lancet — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:39:08 +0000

I don’t own a jailbroken device, so I can’t help you there.

You can try asking on MakeUseOf Answers:
http://makeuseof.com/answers/ask/