iPad home button not working

I know this seems......silly?!? My home button doesn't/hasent worked in the past and I got it fixed. Try this. With your iPad in portrait view (long ways up and down), press and hold the home button. While continuing to hold the home button, turn the iPad to landscape view (long ways left to right), then back to portrait view. Make sure your screen rotates when you do this. Now let go of the home button. Hopefully, this is a fix to the "more common" issue in this case and resolves your problem.

Good luck!

Having removed the iPad2 from the magnetic case it then worked without problems for about 2 weeks but started giving problems again. I have now initialised the accessibility button and use that when the home button fails to work. Using the four finger swipe I found a less attractive option. Clearly there is a problem with the home buttons. What surprises me is that Apple do not seem to be working to fix it.

I had this problem with an iPad2, purchased in May 2011. It occured at about the 8 month point. After a few weeks of increasingly erratice behavior, the home button failed completely. Apple replaced the iPad, in the store, without question. The problem occured again, in the brand new iPad, after 60 days. It appears to be a known issue. Resets and restores did not solve the problem.

I am currently using the second iPad with its home button working less and less consistently. As a workaround, I use the ACCESSIBILITY setting in Settings / General. I have it turned on. It gives me an on screen option for the home button. Should the physical button fail completely, as it did in my first iPad, this will at least give me an option to use the iPad until I take it back to the store. This is important if you want to remove confidential data before turning the iPad in for repair.

It goes without saying that this is disappointing.

Worked for me as well !

Later on I found this:

http://thehowto.wikidot.com/ipad-home-button

You can try waving bats teeth over your iPad, but it really isn't a common problem and there is no system or software issue I'm aware of that causes a home button to stop working. Before you take your iPad back to Apple, try the standard trouble shooting steps......Reboot, Restore from Backup, Restore as New Device. If you need direction on any of these, let us know. But, if you do all three and your home button is still non responsive, it's likely a hardware issue and should be looked at by Apple. My houselhold has had 3 iPads and 4 iPhones over the last few years. Not one of our devices has ever experienced a home button which doesn't work.

I was having problems with my iPad2 home button not working, or more often, working erratically. I tried Ram4Kid's fix and it worked perfectly, first time! Give it a try. I don't know how, but it solved my problem. Thanks!

I thought this was a joke and something was going to jump out of the screen at me, but tried it anywas. Ram4Kid's fix worked for me also on our iPad3. Awesome! Thank you. How do people come up with stuff like this?

I've had my iPad just over a year now and have been experiencing the intermittent button problem about 1-2 months. While the indicated solution above work temporally, and needs to be redone again occasionally so it is not a permanent fix, at least in my case. My question is, then based on the nature of the issue and the temporary nature, would this indicate that it is a SOFTWARE problem, or a HARDWARE issue????? At least a software problem stands the chance of getting fixed...

Thanks or any feedback!

THANK YOU, Ram4Kid. I had the same problem and believe it or not, this method works. Just to add on, in my case (iPad2 with iOS6), I had to REMOVE the magnetic cover and rotate while holding the home button. I hope this helps. Thanks again.

I was having the same problem with my iPad 3 home button, but after I followed Ram4kid's instructions, it worked perfectly!.... Thank you Ram4kid for sharing the information!

Mine does seem to be start acting up....but I still can't know if it's the button or me. Not a consistent thing.

I've also seen folks talking about giving the button a good blow out with a can of air....that button is a small opening in the chassis an it's possible that some bits of dust or dirt can effect how well it works.

I'm not having trouble yet - BUT - my home button is getting mushy, soft, it no longer has a distincttive click. My iPad is only three months only - I can feel the difference. My iPod Touch is 3 YEARS old and still has a snappy home button. Appreciate your thoughts: is the feel of your home button changing?

Last march I bought and iPad 2 and a few months later started having this problem... Home button just wont work. But since theres this tricks w the fingers ....multitasking gestures, I relied on that and on the days the button worked properly. Until I really got tired, started writing to apple... Applying for service. While I was writting my friend entered this chat and told me the Ram4kid solution to this problem.... And guess what??? Has been working ever since every single time. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I've had the same problem - just started a week ago. I've read all of the threads - the recalibration you mentioned (rotating the screen while holding the home button) seems to work. Also they mention some sort of a reset - push the power button on the side, when the "slide to power off" icon appears, hold down the home button and wait until the "slide" icon fades. They both work, problem is, it comes back. I'm pretty certain it is not a hardware issue. I have never dropped my iPad, I keep it in its case, I don't let anyone else touch it, nor do I pound on it that much.

It's not like it happened gradually, and the reset fixes seem to work for a short period of time. I'm trying to figure out if there is some sort of app conflict - maybe when one of them updated, but I can't seem track it down.