iPad Power Button No Longer Working

Hate to reply to my own post but somehow, it's back working again. 😕

I "think" I did the following.

At the home screen, I started the photo frame and that's when it worked. Not sure what triggered it.

This is totally bizarre as I had restored the entire system and it still wasn't working. Maybe something internal is a little "loose" but I doubt there's much that ain't solid state or hard wired in there.

I am absolutely dumbfounded by this. Last one to touch it was me, my son was playing the MX Mayhem, he went swimming and left the iPad on the sofa. I retrieved it, screwed around with it and nothing. Came back to the iMac and was searching the forums. Pressed the home button activated the photoframe (somewhat accidentally) and wham, it just worked.

Strange things are afoot at the circle K. 😁

I too just developed the same problem. After reading all the posts I tried tapping the back corner at the switch and it worked. I then tried just shaking the ipad and that worked consistently. Evidently the problem is with the accelerometer. I found that shaking it only worked one time, it had to be shaken each time to use the switch. It also worked to shake it to turn it on with the on off switch, but of course pushing the home button is the easiest way to turn it on.

I have the same problem with my iPad 2, just out of waranty. Stopped working, then started again, stopped again. Took it to Genius Bar in Civent Garden London and they did a full reset which seemed to fix the proble. Next day it stopped working again! Apple's solution if the restore does not work is to replace it for £199, which I think is a bit poor considering it is only just out of waranty.

Tried the tapping and shaking but had no effect.

Anyone else got any ideas, as I cannot really afford to fork out £199 to replace it.

I just had this issue a few minutes ago except my Ipad air was not working on both power button and home button so I had no way on swit on my iPad but I thought on how the iPad screen switches on if you plug it in I used hey Siri I told Siri to off my iPad but Siri can't do that sadly Apple better add that in. But for some reason I wanted to press both my power and home button hard although it wasn't working until i saw the apple symbol when the iPad restarts. It worked after that restart. SO JUST PRESS BOTH POWER AND HOME BUTTON IT MIGHT WORK.

EDIT: My power button was also not working.

Your best bet likely would be to go to an Apple Store and ask them face-to-face. They may offer to fix or replace it at a small fee, I imagine.

TRY THIS EVERYONE..... GO TO SETTINGS: THAN GO TO "general".......Next turn off iPad cover lock/unlock

YOUR POWER BUTTON SHOULD NOW FULLY WORK!!!

I have a similar problem. The button feels perfect, crisply presses down and returns fine, but the iPad is unresponsive. It will not engage the lock screen...BUT, when I hold down on the power button for 10 to 15 seconds and then let off it responds by going into shutdown mode. Because it does something when I hold it down, I find it difficult to believe this is strickly a hardware problem. When I reset the device it frequently gets into a loop, apple logo pops up then it resets again after 30 seconds of pause....It takes cycling the iPad a couple times to get it out of the loop. Of course I have tried restoring and such, but to no avail.

I have the same issue. IPad works fine, power button does not. THere was a time when it worked. Took it to Genius for service and they told me $499 to fix it. Kind of got blown off by the Apple store near Buffalo, NY. Never took the Protective cover off, just checked the date I bought it. I asked about a way to power it down so I could take it on a plane and the Apple Genius (or not) told me she just uses airplane mode and her flights have not crashed. Amazed at the lack of technical thought, the crash comment and the poor service.

I tried all the other 'fixes' but the only thing that worked was banging the corner of my iPad as a coupe of people suggested, as much as I was hesitant to do so! I had my case on though, so wasn't too worried about damaging it. And it's working again! Thanks everyone :-)

Or just bang it on the desk.

I just noticed the same problem with my ipad 2. Gave it a few light taps on the desk and it started working.

i solved my problem with a blade from a razor, it's thin enough to go inbetween, so i just ran it over a few times and it solved the problem