iPhone 5 Power Button flaky since upgrade to iOS 7

I've had the same power button issue ever since the IOS7 upgrade. Tonight i went under General-accessibility and did two thing after which the issue went away. I turned ON the the"Guided Access", then turned it off. Then turned on the "Switch Control", turned on speech setting then turned all of it off. Somehow Power button is fully functional now and responds on every click.

Even if I found this Very Very Strange, I tried it,

but did not work on mine.

This appears to have corrected the issue for me. Appreciate the collective wisdom.

Vik.Singh thanks for the post. It worked for me too. FYI... I turned everything off in the same order I turned them on. I guess this proved that it is not a hardware issue. I actually read the post wrong and turned it all on then all off. I am so excited that I will probably break my button because I keep checking to see if it is still working.

Almost! ..... Worked for about 10 mins then stopped.

Would love to have seen Apples entry in the user guide if it worked though. Lol !

Just visited Apple Store in New Haven CT with same problem after iOS7 upgrade. - Manager pretended as if this wasn't a common problem, and said only solution was to pay $269 for a new phone. So much for the legendary (or even vaguely outside the box) Apple customer service.

Same problem for me as well. The lock button didn't work just after IOS7 upgrading. I thought it was a software proble. However, after upgrading to 7.0.3, the problem is still here.

I got my iphone5 the second day when it was out. I'm very disappointed that it doesn't working well just over 1 year warrenty.

Does anyone know any other solutions? (the accessibility one doesn't work for me )

I do think APPLE should give an OFFICIAL response to this problem since it is common based on discussion!

My mother's iphone 5 AND myself are having the same issue. I am also having diffuculty taking screen shots and adjusting the volume during an app. Luckily, I have three days of my warranty. Here's hopeing the Apple Store will get fixed.

With such a common problem, Apple definately needs to address the issue to the public. It is no where near a coincidence anymore if my mother and myself are having the same issue.

i had same issue, fixed mine in settings - general, accessibility , switch control and made sure this and auto scanning was set to off (in switch control menu) now back to normal, hope it stays this way !

I have been using ios 7 since it came out. 3 days ago on nov 6th, this power button issue happened to me as well. None of my wife's and friend's iphone have this issue. I tried the suggested fix above, and it worked, but not permanent. It came back afterwards. However, I did one thing that it seems to work, although it is still not as perfect as i used to get. I touch and hold one of my many apps, just like if you want to delete or move apps, and then cancel it by clicking on the home button, my power button works again. The reason I say it is not perfect because sometimes I have to click on the power button twice before it locked. I come to the conclusion that this must be a software glitch. Hope Apple will investigate and have this fixed soon. If anyone have any other solution, please post.

Hope this post helps.

Note: I have tried uninstalling the apps that got updated on the same day my power button stop working, and that didn't work either.

Yes me as well. It's so annoying. Today I was painting a table and had to put my iphone 5 in my pocket without putting it to sleep because it will very rarely go into sleep mode when I push the button anymore. When I pulled it back out of my pocket it was in the middle of requesting permissions for facebook access to one of my apps! I realized that it had deleted and rearranged some of my apps compeltely on it's own. I thought maybe it wasn't going into sleep mode because some apps were left "open". I tried closing everything.That didn't worked. I thought maybe it was the camera app being left open but figured out that wasn't it either. I'm glad to know others are having this problem. The apple store is my next stop.

Hello everybody, it just occurred to me that we all have not identified which carrier we are on. I am using a Sprint iPhone five. And the issue is getting out of control. I have an appointment with AppleCare tonight but it is clearly a iOS 7 issue. Please let everyone know what carrier you are using, because the phones are actually different with the hardware on a Sprint phone then on an AT&T phone or Verizon phone.

Thanks it worked !

no the prob is bug from ios 7 because the power button is working to turn off with the long press

and also the lock screen even from assistive touch not working

so as usual it's a bug from ios

always bugs i don't remember any version without bug

After updating to ios 7 my power off button stopped working completely. After updating to ios 7.04 the problem still remains. Now when I least expect it, the shut down menu keeps popping up unexpectadly. Today I decided to connect it to ITunes on my Mac OsX and do a complete reboot to my Ipad. But the problem still remains.

APPLE FIX THIS. THE PRICES WE PAY FOR YOUR PRODUCTS SHOULD NOT ALLOW FOR THESE MISTAKES.

In just 1 year and a half this is the second time my Ipad is giving me a headache. The first time I was two months without my Ipad and then they (Optimus in Portugal) gave me a new one (suposedly). This is the new machine, it has a couple of months.

APPLE what's wrong with you?