My iPhone 6s home button is really hot and the device won't turn on

BTW, I just confirmed my 6s+ that's overheating all the time uses the crappy Samsung chip.

You can check this by installing 'Lirum Info Lite' or similar from the app store and checking to see if the CPU model only has a single N, if it only has one then I'm sorry to say that it's a Samsung.

I was in class today, phone was almost fully charged. I was listening to the teacher when I wanted to see what time is it on my iPhone 6S 64 GB. I found out that it was shut down and the Touch ID button was freaking hot. Since I was in class, I waited for it to be over before actually taking a look at what was happening to my phone. The button was even hotter than when I first touched it during the lecture. I don't know what is going on and if I should return it to the store, but that bugged me.

Updated to 9.0.2 and hasnt happened since... Also I just checked and I have the TMSC chip, so problem seems to be happening to both Samsung and TMSC variants of the A9 chip according to other posts here...

My phone turned off and the home button was hot this morning. I missed my alarm. I had overheating issues as well prior to this with normal use. This article helped me turn my phone back on today. Something is definitely wrong with my phone. I get to get it replaced with a new one. I can't just wait for the next time it happens over and over again. My new phone shouldn't be doing this! So frustrating!

I have the home button overheating issues and I also checked my chip and I have a Samsung one. I guess the worse battery life on the Samsung chip is not the only thing that is wrong with it.

With these instructions you can check what chip you have: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/10/08/how-to-check-samsung-tsmc-a9-iphone-6s/

Just to add to this. I have the 6s Plus Rose Gold 64GB, since launch, and I also have the Samsung chip. I haven't taken the phone in or called Apple since an Apple Store is an hour away and there is no guarantee of getting a replacement. 😠 This has only happened to me twice but once was enough to make me a little apprehensive.

I was almost ready to buy iPhone 6S 64GB, but looks like it is not a very smart move at the moment.

After all, thumb was the most important evolution in humans, and I am not very keen to get it burnt by a bad piece of technology 😠

But this thread is getting longer with people experiencing this problem and more and more postings and video's across the web are surfacing. I subscribe to the theory that where there's smoke (in this case hot Home buttons) that there is fire (i.e. a h/w or a s/w issue with the device).

My own theory that is not worth anything is that it's not the Home button but the circuitry, firmware or connector in the lightning interface sitting directly underneath the Home button. But it will be up to the guru's at Apple to diagnose who I suspect are working 24x7 to try and reproduce this problem so that it can be fixed! Let's hope it is s/w or just a few isolated iPhones with bad Lightning connectors.

I have had the same issues. I restored the phone but still had the issue. I brought it in to the Apple store and they thought the restore would fix it. They acted as they have never heard of the issue.

Same issue for my iphone 6s 64gb. At least T-mobile is willing to offer "buyers remorse" exchange as my purchase was less than 14 days ago. Yet, I can't find any info on what may cause this issue, and how widely this issue has been reported. Are we here on this post a minority? So I am not sure even getting an exchange unit may be a solution or not... Apple should acknowledge this issue and come up with how they plan to address it...

Ralph9430,

Good advice for everyone to be reminded of especially for folks that are new to the iPhone and/or non-technical. They just want their phones to work properly.

These devices should not just randomly overheat, period. There's a defect somewhere that Apple needs to fix.

So, for anyone STILL having this problem have you tried upgrading to 9.1b4?

I had this issue several times, on the release 9.01 and on 91.B2, B3 but since upgrading to 91.B4, nothing. Even the situations the seemed to produce it previously, regularly, don't produce either the system freeze or the hot home button.

What are the conditions you mentioned that triggered the hot home button and shutdown issues? That seems to be the most important mystery which no one has been able to address. If you could reliably trigger the problem issues, then Apple could find the fix. Please elaborate for all.

Unfortunately that's one issue that is holding up a fix, there doesn't seem to be a way to reproduce it. I have had it happen in the middle of the night, after I pushed snooze, and a few times while it's in my pocket. The iPhone software diagnostic tool Apple uses doesn't find the issue.

My incident was definitely not triggered the same way as yours. I really don't know what triggered mine but from what I've read so far, many people have had their alarms set before their incidents. Maybe the alarm might be a possible cause. Nonetheless I will try replicating your scenario and see what happens. Please note that I've exchanged my 6s with the issues for another 6s 64GB TSMC A9 iOS 9.1 PB 4 on 9/30 and have not experienced any problems to date. I will update the forum with the result.