Volume down button doesn't work on iPhone 5

Thanks Killasounds, yours is the only solution that worked on my iphone 5.

Hey guys, my name is Peter.

I started having the same issue on June 28 2015. I ended up bending my iphone by putting pressure on the screen and the volume down button started working temporarily but I googled the issue and found what appears to be a permanent fix. The link is below, but I copied and pasted the information.

Shout out to Caiustheory! However the one caveat seems I need to keep the assistive touch icon "On" the entire time...

http://caiustheory.com/solve-volume-down-button-not-working-on-iphone-5/

1. Open “Settings”
2. Scroll down and tap on “General”
3. Tap on “Accessibility”
4. Scroll down to the bottom and tap on “AssistiveTouch”
5. Tap the toggle for AssistiveTouch to turn it on, and you should see a little icon appear on screen (white circle contained in a dark grey rounded square)
6. Tap the AssistiveTouch icon (was in the top left corner on screen for me)
7. Tap on “Device”
8. Tap “Volume Down” a bunch of times and you should see the volume being turned down
9. Tap outside the AssistiveTouch dialog to close it
10. Try pushing the physical Volume Down button

Nevermind, the issue came back again ugh....

But the assistive touch does help if the button isnt working.

Great advice! Thanks a mill!!

HI everyone!

I've had this problem for a good 2 months until I read that if you apply pressure to the upper right hand corner, it would work. Let me go into detail, what I think this person meant is that you have to twist your phone from bottom left to top right. Not that much, but it started working for me and it feels so good knowing my iPhone buttons work!

Yep, putting some torque on the upper right and lower left of the iPhone 5 did the trick. My phone is in on Otterbox and this trick still worked!

A few light taps on a counter top fixed mine, thanks.

AAbsolutely incredible. This worked for me - the twisting bit. Nothing but assisted touch would work for lowering the volume. I'm about to send the phone in for sleep/wake button repair anyway but glad to find this solution. Been living with these issues forever. THANK YOI!!

The volume down button on my iPhone 5 hasn't worked for a long time, but I finally got around to trying to fix it tonight. Bending seemed unlikely to me, as I've always carried it in my front pocket, protected by a case. A lot of switches stop working due to the switch contacts oxidizing, so I decided to attack it from that direction. I didn't have any electronic contact cleaner handy, but I did have some 91% Isopropyl Alcohol, so I soaked a cotton ball and began dripping some alcohol onto both the up and down volume buttons, then working the buttons, and repeating for several minutes until the down volume button began working again. Hope this helps someone.

This worked for me! Thank you!! I was getting very frustrated with it

I think I discovered a bug.

I was having the same problem. Tried a variety of suggestions. I haven't read them all, so what I found may or may not have been suggested. In the Settings->Sounds, I disabled Ringer and Alerts -> Change with Buttons toggle. I disable that feature and the button works. I re-enable and it works initially while in that screen. Going away from the settings screen (ala back to the home screen) it doesn't work. For now, I just disabled it.

This worked for me tonight. Thanks