Since I installed IOS 6.0.1, pushing my home key (slowly) no longer goes from the current home page (press once) to the first home page (press twice) to search (press three times.) Is this a bug or a feature? Can I return to the previous behavior?
iPod touch (4th generation), iOS 6.0.1
I have not noticed that and I have not seen any other posts here with that problem. Maybe your Home button is sticking
Try:
Fix a broken, unresponsive or sticky iPhone Home Button
- If you have iOS 5 and later you can turn on Assistive Touch it add the Home and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch
- If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for:
Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing
You can do it an an Apple store by:
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
or sent it in to Apple. See:
Just to be clear, the home key always continued to work. Pressing once returned me from an application to the home screen and double clicking brought up the multi-task display. What had changed was the sequence of screens on repeated single clicks. I.e. starting from within an application it no longer went from application launch page -> first home screen -> search page etc.
That said, now that I know that this was not an intended feature, I powered the touch down and back up again. This appears to have solved the problem. Thanks for responding!
- Wes
Changes in home key behavior with IOS 6.0.1
