iphone 5 power button NOT Working anymore.

Heard this also. It's still not right though. Shouldn't have to go through all of that just because Apple won't stand behind their product. Sad.

I have the same problem but here in the UK apple will replace the iphone 5 for 2 years under EU law...... BUT if you got it on contract with a mobile provider as MOST people do they will only honour the 1 year warranty.

So its like saying "yeah we acknowledge there is a problem but even though it is one of our product and we would replace it for you if you bought it from the apple store, but UNLUCKY you got it on a 2 year contract and they only last 13 months!!!!"

Come on Apple its time to admit the iphone 5 needs a recall....

You are only part right about the consumer law. In EU the first year the manufacture must replace in the 2nd year it goes to the point of sale. So if you have a contract with 3mobile they should replace or fix for you.

Exact same problem here as well.

My iPhone 5's sleep button started being pretty much unusable for no apparent reason.

If I push hard on the left side it works, but pushing with normal pressure or on the right side never works.

I'm out of warranty too 😟.

Seeing as everyone is having the exact same problem, always with the right side failing, this seems to be a design issue that I hope Apple will address.

^ That link likely won't stay for long.

Apparently Apple is censoring any post referencing that recall petition in an attempt to "hide" the obvious design problem. Not cool.

Yup. They just yanked it. LOL! Maybe up there about 5 minutes. Funny thing is, I wasn't even referencing that article for the petition. Just some of the info at the bottom that helped me...

Haha, it got censored already!

Literally took 5 minutes.

Apparently, they don't really care that we're dissatisified as long as we aren't starting a class action lawsuit.

How long and what does it take for Apple to accept a faulty product? Even I'm affected after my warranty was over and have been asked to shell out £119 to fix something which seems pretty small.

Same thing here. I'm sad about the fact that there is so many of us. I talked to a lot of my friends, who owns iphone 5 and many of them had this problem too.

Mine stopped working this summer. I couldn't take it to the apple store, because I bought the phone in us, but using it in Russia, and in my region there is no official apple retail stores.

2 problems I con point out here:

1) and obvious - power button issue.

2) no recall

and nobody from technicians haven't said anything about it in this topic. It makes me think that they really don't care about their customers.

I own few apple products. But I wish I could upgrade them when the time comes on new ones. But it could turn out as a big question for me at that time - should I trust apple? Honestly, I really don't like that issue. And android market is getting a lot better now. May be it's time to go after google nexus?

WHY is Apple censoring and removing our posts here? I did not provide any outside links of any sort. Only voicing my OPINION.

Welcome in North Korea.

A bit of a drama queen are you? The police are coming to your house and arresting you then killing your family over comments to Apple?

@kenchi123: Re-read the Terms of Use that you agreed to when you joined here. This is a technical support forum staffed by users like yourself, not a free for all discussion site. Try MacRumours, Engadget, appleinsider, etc. for voicing your opinion.

Honestly, it's just amusing that despite all the interest in this thread, the Apple Geniuses will act like they've never seen this issue before. Three people were at my Apple Genius Bar table when I took my phone in; all of us had the same problem, yet each of us was made to feel as though this could not be a systemic issue related to the iphone 5. Silly really.

I have the same issue on my iPhone 5. The left side of the button is still working but the right side is unpredictable. I bought the iPhone at launch day and this started to happen about 2 weeks ago.

Same power button problem. After allowing it to drive me insane for a month, I bought myself a Moto G (£130 sim free). Not premium, but HD screen and total value for money...and the power button works!