Broken iPhone 4 Home Button

Same issue here 😟 after upgrade.

This is consistent with what I found. The natural inclination for a lot of folks is to carry the iPhone port-end-down in a pocket. That interface port can get a lot of dust and dirt (pocket lint) in it, and I've blown it out successfully a few times to get the Home button working. The other thing you have to really be aware of is keeping FOIL - candy wrappers, gum wrappers, etc. - out of the port. I got a tiny bit of foil in there and the phone malfunctioned all over the place. Boot failures, connection prompts, etc., until a tech at the Apple Store who'd seen this before extracted the foil. Worked perfectly after that. I now carry the phone switch-side-down and have had no further problems.

See my later reply to Shaytoon.

Amazing... did the trick! THanks Channuk

My iPhone 4 Home Button first stopped working after a firmware update. A day later it worked again. In a few days it failed again, then for no reason started working several hours later. It now fails every other day or so and then starts to work within a day. I have read many comments online such as to squeeze the left side frame which works sometimes, or to squeeze the upper glass just left of the home button, which often worked, but not always. I attempted to leave the camera app running in the background which seemed to work for about a day till it failed again. I have tried vacuuming, brushing and every other suggestion I've found so far, yet my home button simply stops working for no reason. There seems to be a large number of people that newly discovered this problem at the 4.3.1 or 4.3.2 updates. Please offer some other possible suggestions. I do not believe the button has failed as when it works, it is snappy.

hi guys, i had the very same problem so i did the toothpick thing and got all the dust out and it started to work for an hour or two then it stopped again and its been stopping and starting since any suggestions? Also it randomly starts the voice control application without me doing anything.

P.S. id rather not have to go to an apple store as the nearest one to me is over an hours drive away!

I had exactly the same problem over a couple of days after having updated to iOS 4.3. I had about twenty apps running in the background. After I had closed all the apps the home button works perfect again.

I tried the cleaning the hoovering the resets the clean install but none of those things worked.

Then I tried slapping the phone gently on the back and that worked straight away!

I think this is a hardware issue and not a software issue, there must be some contact points sticking or something similar.

I hope this helps.