iPhone 5S home button only goes from lock screen to passcode screen if human touch presses the button

The iPhone 5S home button will only move forward from the lock screen to the passcode screen if a human finger presses the button.

This is a problem if you're wearing gloves - and even the touch-friendly ones won't activate the passcode screen.

This is a software issue as the phone didn't use to do this - not sure when the software switch occurred though, as only gloved use starts around the winter time. And it doesn't matter much since you can't downgrade anyway. The phone has been hard restarted plenty of times and reset as well.

Additionally, the issue will go away for a time after you unlock it with human touch. It'll go from lock screen to passcode screen with non-human touch for a bit, then revert to its old, accursed ways after a time (longer than 5 min, don't know how long for sure - or if it's consistent time lengths).

The home button works in every other way, and on an iPhone 6S the issue is not there at all. I've tried various states of the General -> Accessabiltity -> Home Button settings, but nothing has fixed the issue.

Here's a great video showing the issue: https://imgur.com/CZLRTI6

The video shows pressing the button with a gloved finger and it mocking you telling you to "Press home to unlock," then a non-gloved finger presses the button - but not so touch ID can activate - and this gets it to go to the passcode screen. Finally, I show the home button working with touch ID so we all know it fully functions.

Additionally, here's a video showing a side-by-side comparison with an iPhone 6S: https://i.imgur.com/mbxw33y.mp4

The video shows that using a glove with the iPhone 6S goes to the passcode screen as you'd hope

when you press the physical home button. When pressing it on the iPhone

5S, again it won't go to the passcode screen. Then the conductive layer

on the thumb of my glove is used to enter numbers on the screen of the

iPhone 6S. Afterwards, the iPhone 5S is unlocked with a human finger and

then the conductive glove presses on the screen. The video essentially shows the distinct dichotomy between the two models - of which the iPhone 6S still acts like the iPhone 5S used to and could.

I previously posted most of this question to "iPhone Hardware" (iPhone 5S home button only goes from lock… - Apple Community) because but didn't get any traction - the topics seem limited. Retrying in "Using iPhone" as that's as close to iPhone Software as I could get.