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

I Had same problem today. Very hot home button on my iPhone 6S. Finally got it to restart with hard reset (holding down side button and home button for ~10 seconds). The home button was (very) hot to the touch.

It happened to me once with the iphone 6s, touch ID became scorching hot and the phone couldn't be powered on. Managed to turn it on after press+hold power and home button for a few seconds.

JUst plugging it in to my MacBook did not work; I had to hold the power/home buttons for about ten seconds and the phone "woke up"

Thank you- this fixed it for me too! ---- "what fixed my phone was to hold the home button and the power button for about 10 seconds. The apple symbol popped-up and looked like a reboot."

Hi, the same thing happened to me, left it plugged in for a few hours, went to check on it and it had turned itself off, wouldn't turn on , and the home button was red hot, I unplugged it and eventually after holding the power and home button it came back to life.... Didn't happen since... Very strange...

iPhone 6s Plus 128GB....

My phone just did the exact same thing where I went to use it and it was off. I followed the instructions on this post and it worked (although I had to hold the home button and the power button for 15 seconds). In response to some of the other posts, I don't think it has anything to do with any different chargers (I have only used an Apple charger that came with the phone since I got it a week ago) and it is not related to a case of any kind (I don't use a case on my iPhone). I hope Apple figures this out, or better yet I hope it goes completely haywire right before the 1 year warranty is up so I can get a new phone then. J/K

Same thing happens to mine this morning (6S plus 128gb - running beta 9.1 ) .....

Phone was on the kitchen counter with 93% battery.....checked my emails and then went back an hour later and phone was dead - but home button was RED HOT - almost too hot to touch!!!

only thing that got it up and running again was the hard reset.....which isn't ideal really......it's made me lose confidence in the phone. I also worry how hot it could get and whether it could start a fire??

I am taking my phone back to Verizon today. I have been searching the web and there are numerous reports of this happening. The articles advise returning the device and exchanging it for a new one.

OMG. This has happened to 3 of the 4 iPhones on my family plan. I just googled it to find out if anything similar was happening to others. The phones seem to shut off randomly, while charging or not. The Touch ID gets super hot and the only way to fix is a hard reset. 2 6s and a 6s+. Hope it is just a software fix.

So 1 week in finally relented and upgraded from my trusty iPhone 5 ( which developed a swelling battery issue and after waiting nearly five hours in store with another 100 people, only to be told they don't have one in stock, 'Jesus wept') I purchased 128gb iPhone 6s.

1 Week in with 6s on iOS 9.01 all good , constantly beping pestered to update, I finally did to 9.02 now tonight picks up the phone presses the home button and a really hot burning sensation , black screen and won't turn on.

Ten or so minutes later I try every button confit to get it to start up, plug in the charger, not even a charging screen.

Finally and not even sure this resolved it, I pressed and held the home and power button and it came back on. Battery at 70%, missed calls and messages to boot.

Unfortunately, my iPhone 5 still waiting to be replaced, and I feel I have to take this iPhone 6s back.

really losing the faith right now

My phone was sitting unused for 1 hour before I found it with a black screen and then a hot home button. It was not being charged. So I can't say in my situation that anything I can identify would have caused it. In any case, Apple had me do the hard reset and it worked fine afterward. Apple did diagnostics at store today and it was fine.

I do know in my case it is NOT related to a specific chip in the phone, as I have the TSMC chip and not the Samsung chip. I don't think this issue has anything to do with which chip you have, and I also think it has nothing to do with whether you have upgraded your OS or not.

Just had this issue happen on my 6s 64gb. Apparently caught it pretty fast as button was warm and getting warmer but not yet too hot to touch. Was able to hard reset (reset/home) and get it back. Will take it to an Apple store when/if it reoccurs so they can see it happening. Doesn't look like it matters but I did upgrade to 9.0.2 about four days ago.

A co-worker also had this issue a couple of weeks ago and since mine was not doing it we thought maybe it was a first run hardware issue. Mine is from ATT a couple of weeks later and with the growing number we are now thinking it is a firmware/software issue. Just need Apple to acknowledge, diagnose and fix it.

It happened to me for the first time today. It was on my desk working... then it went dark. The home button got very hot. It went from 90% to 58% battery pretty quick. Holding both buttons for a reset fixed it. But I don't feel good about it. I am going to take it to the Apple store.

ios 9.2
64gb 6s - less than 3 weeks old

T-Mobile

Thanks for the advice. Actually I did take to apple, and the tech that I spoke to said he's encountered this problem pretty regularly. He stated it's a software glitch that causes the fingerprint sensor to get into an endless loop trying to scan a fingerprint that isn't there. He stated that a soft reset is all that is needed, but thanks for the needlessly snarky reply.

P.S. - It just got to 19 pages so maybe that will warrant a full scale federal investigation.

P.P.S. - See the last part of my reply to Meg St. Clair.

This just happened to me with my ATT iPhone 6S 64gb with iOS 9.3.2! I looked at the time on my phone and put it in my purse. When I got to my office I pulled my phone out to check the time again and the weather and my phone had a blazing hot home button and black screen. I did the dual button reset and it started up again and the heat died down. This is super concerning since I use all Apple accessories and I got the phone in November (2015). The closest Apple Store is five hours away in Portland.... I certainly hope this does not keep happening. I'm going to make sure everything is backed up on iTunes the minute I get home!