The home button on your iPhone no longer works? Before you send your smartphone in for repairs, you should try our tips..
If the home button on your iPhone no longer works properly or is completely defective, the device can hardly be used. But even with a defective home button, you don't have to send your smartphone in for repair straight away. With a little luck, one of our tips will help you.
Calibrating the home button is not an official Apple solution for home button problems, but the method probably helped for some iPhone users and the home button worked perfectly again afterwards. So it's worth a try:
If the calibration was unsuccessful and you don't want to spend money on repairing the Home Button, you can use AssistiveTouch. This is a virtual power button that appears on the iPhone display.
You can find out how to activate Assistive Touch in our step-by-step instructions or in the brief instructions ..
In this tip we explain how you can switch off your iPhone with AssistiveTouch.
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