Home Bar on iPhone XR

 Try and Force Restart your iPhone EXACTLY as shown below and see whether that resolves the issue:

• Press and quickly release Volume UP button
• Press and quickly release Volume DOWN button
• Press and Hold the SIDE button until an Apple logo appears and then release the Side button (Can take up to 20 seconds. (DO NOT release Side Button when invited to Slide Power OFF). 

Axel F.

I know you were responding to Alex. You told Alex that Force Restart didn't make the swipe to home page bar go away. I was letting you know why a Forced Restart couldn't possibly do that.

And your memory that the bar goes away is simply not correct. The bar does NOT, nor is it supposed to go away.

Are you referring to the swipe bar at the bottom of the screen which you swipe to take you back to the home screen? If you are, your memory is not correct as the swipe bar is and has always been present on any phone with Face ID.

I know you were responding to Alex. You told Alex that Force Restart didn't make the swipe to home page bar go away. I was letting you know why a Forced Restart couldn't possibly do that.

And your memory that the bar goes away is simply not correct. The bar does NOT, nor has it ever gone away.

Itehduck wrote:

I tried this and it is not working, thanks for trying.

Did you read my post? If what I asked is what you're referring to there's no wonder a Forced Restart didn't work. A Forced Restart can't change something which is doing what it's supposed to do. The bar to swipe up to get to your home page is ever present and never went away as you thought it did. It's NOT supposed to disappear.