I dropped my iPhone and now it won't turn on

I took the back of and took off the battery and put it back on and now it works like normal

This ACTUALLY worked, dropped my Iphone 4 and held down both buttons for about 15-20 sec and suddenly, boom, it turns on. Thanks alot for the tip

Read the thread, follow the solutions provided. If none of them work, then you have to take it in to Apple to have it looked at.

GB

Thanks Taseraq, I dropped my iphone on my hard deck and it wouldnt work. I tried lots of different things but nothing worked until I tried your suggested combination of pushing the home button and lock keys together. After 10 seconds all functions normal just like my heart rate 🙂

Glad you got it going. But for any future problem with any electronic device, I thought "turn it of and turn it on again" (which is what the two buttons do) was funny because it was so old... 😉 (I have to do it now and again with my satellite TV box.)

You guys are God sent. I just simultaneously pressed the home botton and the on/off botton as you suggested and bingo!! the phone fired up.

I dropped it from the ear to the tiled floor. Nothing happed initially but after about 20 minutes, the phone went dead. I did everything I know and got frustrated because the phone cannot be opened. I almost went to the repairer but decided to google for solutions. Now I am back to life. Thanks.

I've read everything, and did exactly what u said but it did not work... I dropped my phone, and it went black but I still got calls n notifications, and then I held my power and home button and it went completely black, and now it doesn't do anything. What happened?, what should I do?, I really don't want to buy a whole new iPhone 5, their expensive😟

i dropped my phone and it was already turned off. I tried to turn it on later on and it wouldn't turn on. I tried charging it and it just buzzes intermittently and that is it. Any ideas to try? I've tried holding lock and home key and it didn't work 😟

Omigosh! Dropped my phone, screen was black, tried phoning it and looking for it on find my iPhone...it was signalling offline. It had just been charged, so I was worried. Tried your suggestion and then the apple logo came on and phone is working again! Really thought I'd have to get a new phone in the am..My daughters bday party is tomorrow afternoon and I was a little worried about it all. Thank you again!!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Thanks a ton for your advice. I dropped my phone sometime back and it won't turn on. I was worried if the display was gone or was it the phone in total. Tried your solution of holding the Home & Power button down for 25-30 seconds and it worked like a charm! Thanks again..

Hi, I recently dropped my phone in the toilet and it started working a couple weeks after that but the middle button didn't work and the back camera but other than that the phone was functional. Now I dropped my phone on the kitchen floor and the screen turned black I tried everything and I was ****** because I see all I had to do was push the middle button and the power button but my middle button wasn't working. So i was trying everything. I got so mad that I started banging it against the wall, and I took my android and hit the iphone too. (i'm 16 don't judge) lol. But the phone works again BUT i can't add pressure to it like if I put my phone case on it, it turns off or it freezes. Can somebody tell me what might of happened. Thanks 🙂

I dropped my Otter Box-encased iPhone 6 (fully charged) from 3 feet to a tile floor, and it went absolutely dead. Wouldn't turn on. Took it to the AT&T store where I bought it, they tried these tricks, no dice. Told me to drive it 90 miles away to my nearest Apple store. Took it there, the repair guy wasn't on duty, the desk guy pressed all the same buttons the AT&T guy and I had pressed, for the same amount of time. No dice. Wait-- it gets even worse.

Next day, went back to the AT&T store to upgrade to a 7+ (and got a new iPad). While the tech guy was synching my phone and iPad, it claimed I had NEVER backed up my iPhone, BUT-- my old iPad had been backed up. Relief! Since it had been synched with my iPhone 6, my photos taken with my dead iPhone 6 were still on it. BUT...gradually, my photos disappeared from my old iPad. And when the tech went back to check, my new iPhone was showing my old iPad had NEVER been backed up.

With the history of back-ups erased on my old equipment, years' worth of my pictures have now disappeared.

To prevent something like this from happening in the future, you should be importing (not just backing up) your photos to your computer. If you had years' worth of photos on your device, then a backup wouldn't have them either unless they were all on the camera roll.

An iOS device is not a place to safely store photos that are important to you. They should be imported regularly, and the computer's hard disk should be backed up to an external drive as well.

Best of luck,

GB

Hi folks,

i dropped my iPhone 5s on floor from approx 4 feet and nothing happened except it keeps saying "Searching" for Network and is gets heated to the temperature that i could not even hold it in my hand.

I went to a repair shop and that guy said that it's unit is short and phone is no more.

can someone help me on this? 😟

I dropped my iPhone 5s and now it's dead. If I plug it into an electrical source, it's flashes the logo screen on and off. If I plug it into my laptop, and hold down the home button and the lock button at the same time for 10 second and then release the lock button but continue holding the home button for another 10 seconds, iTunes will recognize the iPhone. It prompts me to. "Restore" and I do. It extracts the software and then attempts to restore. I get this error message, "The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred. (4005)" I have tried all the other things mentioned here like holding both buttons for 20 to 30 seconds but no joy. Please help me!!!