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

It's happened the same to my 6s, home button overheating and can't turn on. Last night my battery was only 13% ,then I charged my ph the whole night with airplane mode. I started know the error during morning & did know nth to do.To fix it, my boyfriend gave me this link and I found the way that former ones said.So I tried pressing home key & power button at the same time. Within 6 seconds it turns on & I get it back. Thz for ur suggestions & comments with my heart. Frankly, I got very frustrated by this system error of 6s. 😕

I had the same problem today. I had my phone plugged into one of these power cases (JLW-6GB). This had worked fine for several days, but today, the screen went black and the home button was totally hot. I'm traveling but fortunately I had WIFI at the airport and was able to get online with my MacBook where I found this post. It saved me lots of additional frustration. I did the home button-power button reset - it took about 15 second. In the 10 minutes that this issue had been going on, the battery went from 100% to 49%.

Hope this won't happen again...

I got the exact same problem. My 6s plus 64G got black screen and found my home button burning hot.

Just pressed home button + power button to reset. Luckily, I can bring my phone on.

No idea what the problem is. Should I send my phone to apple to check? T

Over 17 pages reports this problem but Apple doesn't care about it?

No reply from Apple ?

You should call or mail apple or your supplier of the phone. Make sure you get a reply from them so you can prove that you informed them before your guarantee is done. I don't know if it is possible to chat with them but just make sure that you have proof that you informed them!!! This is a most concerning 'feature' of the iPhone.....

I experienced this heating button problem and solved it with the 10 seconf power & hot button pressing. The 10 seconds were painfull hot but the phone started. Do i go to service center to replace... I just got it 15 days back it is iphone 6s 64 GB gold.

Same exact thing happened to my I phone 6 S... Screen went black and power button very hot to touch...followed instructions that I got from this site and held the power button down at the same time as the home button..this took about 10 to 15 seconds of holding to get the phone to power back on..My phone is 6 months old....so glad this site told me what to do. As expensive as these phones are they should not have these problems

I had the same thing happen today but my phone overheated. I had it in my car with the sun roof down in the direct sun light while driving and realized when I got back to the office that it overheated so it shut down. I let it cool down for a while and went to try to start it up and noticed that the home button was hot while the rest of the phone was cool. I held down the home and power buttons and it started back up and no more problems.

I had the same condition occur today on 6s, 64GB, verizon phone. Hot home button, zero response on screen until holding both for reset.

that is a over heating mostly constant usage of device or using any case.Simple method is to reboot your device by holding home button and power button.

Also happened to me too, today. iPhone 6s 16GB just turned off by itself, with a black screen and totally unresponsive to hitting home button/power button/plugging in to charger/connecting to MacBook Pro with cable. When I touched the home button, it was scorching hot and I was almost unable to touch it. I initially thought it was my imagination, but after Googling the issue, it seems like this is a real problem that Apple will have to fix. The fix, like others have posted here, was to do a phone reset by holding down the power button and home button together for 10 seconds. I will go to my Apple Store tomorrow to report this. Wonder how Apple will address this.

I'm having the same problem with my iPhone 6s home button hot to the touch and shutting off. I tried rebooting by holding down home button and sleep button for 10 seconds but to no avail. I put the phone in the freezer for a minutes then tried rebooting again... it powered on. Unfortunately I went through this process twice now. Can't wait for Apple to fix this problem as I like my 6s.

Had the same issue with my wife's iPhone 6s. Put it on charge about an hour later the Touch ID was burning hot. I HAD to hold it down to reset it and in a matter of seconds it was cooled off. Which leads me to believe something was on in the button that should not stay on.

this is exactly what happened to my 6S plus on the 3rd day after I got it. With 60% of battery it got powered off. The home button was so hot that I could not hold it for more than 5 seconds. Finally, had to put a paper on it and then reset did work for me. In last 24+ hours no such issue again but planning to visit apple store to get it checked.

Hi,

same issue here. Had it face up. Just wanted to unlock when I noticed the "hot" home button.

Thankfully I just had my macbook at hand. Just found this post a minute ago. Hard reset did the trick. The home button instantly went cooler.

I updated my IPhone 6S (128GB) to 9.0.2 last weekend. However I am not sure that this is triggering the issue.

Did anyone get this issue without having touch id set up?

Hopefully it's just a software bug.

Best regards,

adjjj

My iPhone 6s had 40% battery life left, had not been using it for about 1 hour (and it was not plugged in), and all of a sudden I have a black screen, phone won't turn on, and home button is extremely hot as if it's on fire. Nothing I did could get the phone to turn on, and no response to "hey, Siri" either.I DO have the TMC processor chip so this does not seem to be a Samsung chip issue. I have been running on OS 9.0.2 for two weeks so that should not be related to the issue, either.

AppleCare helped me do a hard reset and it is fine now.