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

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!

This happened to me this morning! 😟

How do you check if you have that chip?

I haven't had the issue or the hot button now for a couple days, since upgrading to 9.1B4

This has happened to me about three times where only the "hard reset" wakes the phone up again. I suddenly remembered I had the SEEK Thermal Camera and plugged it into my iPad and took this photo of the phone. As you can see, the home button is measured at 100F....and here's the "normal" picture when the phone is behaving itself ->

It's a 6S 128GB model from the launch day batch running 9.0.2

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.

Space Gray iPhone 6s 128GB (with Samsung chip) purchased through Apple Upgrade plan last Saturday. Woke up this morning to the overheated home button, black screen, and no response to power or home button presses. Performed the reboot by holding down the power and home for 10 seconds and the phone is operational again.

I Also have had the same problem with overheating. I left mine plugged in to charge overnight and the next morning the lower portion of the phone was extremely hot. Once it cooled, I had a black screen. A soft reset at the Verizon store turned it back on. They said that I was the first that they had heard of overheating. I asked for a new phone and they said since they could not reproduce the problem that I was out of luck. Next upgraded to 9.0.2 in hopes that it was a software issue. Next problem after updating was that the phone would not stop dinging when it was fully charged and plugged in. Went back to Verizon but the phone would no longer charge to 100%. They called support and did some kind of diagnostic test that showed a problem with my phone and that it could probably be fixed by going to an Apple Store. I asked for a new phone sincI was still within the 14 day window of purchase and have not had a problem since. Apple needs to address these issues.

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 😠

Dear Ralph9430,

Please try and fully understand the situation the OP is in before stating the obvious. Thank you.

To everyone else,

Please read DWadeC and Hudmonkey's replies to the OP... or use the following:

HOLD HOME/TOUCH ID AND POWER BUTTONS FOR 10 SECONDS TO PERFORM MANUFACTURER'S RESTART.

This operation actually worked for my wife's iPhone 6s today after having the same problem. Not sure if it's a permanent fix, but it will enable you to backup your device before taking it to Apple for investigation or return to store for new iPhone 6s.

Kind Regards,

Yoshi

A couple dozen people out of the millions who bought the iPhone 6S reporting a bug with the home button that usually* happens once is not a good reason to avoid purchasing the device.

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.