iPhone 5 home button issue iOS 8

I Am having the exact same problem. I have the iPhone 5 model number A1429. When I press the home button once it goes to the multitasking screen. This only happens sporadically not all the time and it's very annoying. This did not happen on the previous version of iOS. When I pressed the button once it would return to the home screen, twice it would go to the mitltaskinch screen. This is the way it should have stayed. Hope there is a fix for this soon.

Update Apple just called and they want my phone to investigate the problem they are sending me a replacement phone so they can investigate my problem

Anyone having the problem who doesn't use a case

A case should not be relavent unless the phone started acting up when you put it in a case. We all started to experience this the instant we installed iOS 8. It's an OS issue.

I have an iPhone 5 but don't use a case and I still have the same problem. I know this doesn't solve the problem but if you are stuck in the multitasking pane you can go to the far left screen to get back to the home screen. Still a pain but it will at least get you to where you want to go.

Also there's new a thread on Reddit on this problem. If enough people upvote it might get Apple's attention. Just search home button multitasking bug (i don't think I can leave a link in a thread).

Same here. Only started with iOS 8. Now it's happening almost every time I hit the home button. Utterly infuriating. Phone is almost unusable.

I have just the iphone 5. Upgraded it to ios 8.02 and now the home button won't work. I don't have the touch ID so this is a major hassle. I am hoping I can downgrade it back to 7.

As a already mentioned it in the other thread, i installed 8.1 beta and the error is gone.

I have the same issue and it is really irritating. Now on iOS 8.02 and its still randomly going to "multi-tasking" on one click. Never had this problem before iOS 8 came out.

Is there a fix yet.

How do you install 8.1 Beta?

My phone is registrated for beta versions. There are many ways to do that, just google it.

Hi guys,

I have a Iphone 4s (2,5 years old) and I had exactly the same issue:

After upgrading to iOS 8, single click the home button would sporadically bring up the multitasking screen, instead of going back to the home screen. This appears to happen regardless of what app I single click the home button in.

In ios7 everything was fine (going back to IOS7 is not possible anymore)

I have tried really everthing:

-recalibrating the home button

-cleaning from dust (with electric toothbrush)

-"soft" and "hard reseting"

-reinstall IOS8 with clean ipsw file from internet

-update to IOS8.0.2

...But nothing really works.

Finally I came to following solution:

I noticed that after pressing my home button it slowly springs back to its default position (in comparision to my friend's iphone).

Therefore I replaced the home button (~50€)...Now my Iphone works like charm

Maybe the new IOS8 is more sensitive to this spring force.

BR, Michael

Anyone else can confirm it is gone in 8.1?

If you are a developer, you should know that posting information about beta software is not allowed on the public forums. You should be posting anything about the beta on the Developer forums.

GB

RoHHSz, this isn't the forum to discuss beta iOS releases. Not only is this topic irrelevant to the masses, you are also probably breaking Apple rules.