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

You can plug it into your PC/Mac, and try to back it up in iTunes.

Same thing just happened to me. iPhone 6s 128GB running iOS 9.3.1. Did the hard reset as suggested and it started working. This is definitely something Apple should look into.

+1 mine this did to me at work today while ironically I was helping customers with their iPhones and I was like no way my phone broke, glad to see I'm not the only one this is happening to, I wonder how many of these are the Samsung chip or the non Samsung chip

This happened to me overnight. All was working fine, then this morning alarm didn't go off - phone was dead. The home button wicked hot and did the reset as suggested above. Then when I saw your post I went to software update and it had already initiated the download of iOS 9.0.2 and was in the "preparing update" phase. I went ahead and installed, but never had it initiate the software update on it's own. This concerns me! Seems to be working fine now, but time will tell.

Just to chime in; same issue here.

Have 2 iPhone 6S, one 64GB, one 128GB. Both on 9.0.2.

The 64GB has had the issue twice so far (with the really really hot home button, needing reset). Hasn't happened once yet on the 128.....

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This issue is now being covered in the Apple and web press and also on Youtube:

Mashable story: http://mashable.com/2015/10/05/iphone-6s-hot-touch-id/#93oQkvQjcqqG

9to5Mac story: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/30/iphone-6s-touch-id-3d-touch-speaker-power-issues/

YouTube pop star iJustine posted a video of the overheating TouchID button occurring on her new iPhone: https://youtu.be/gHSbOhXUqiw

UPDATE 9/30/15: Replaced iPhone 6s 16GB, with hot home button and mysterious shut down issue, with a 6s 64GB through T-Mobile store. Restored new 64GB 6s via iTunes backup, after installing IOS Public Beta profile. No problems at all experienced while running IOS 9.1 PB 3. Now running on IOS 9.1 PB 4 since 10/6/15, also without experiencing any further problems. Additionally, I confirmed that the 64GB 6s is running the TMSC-made A9 chip (http://www.iphonehacks.com/2015/09/how-to-identify-if-iphone-6s-has-a-tsmc-or-sa msung-a9-chip.html). However, I never confirmed which A9 chip was in the 16GB 6s with the hot home button/shut down issue.

Has anyone made any hot home button/shut down issue correlation between the TSMC-made A9 chip vs the Samsung A9 chip? Noting that correlation does not necessarily equal causation ... I am just curious. Apple still has not formally acknowledged this issue.

Also had the same issue starting about 1-2 weeks after getting the 6S 128GB. Woke up this morning with screen unresponsive phone and the hot home button issue. I did the hard reset and phone was fine and put phone back on my desk. Within few minutes of sitting on my desk it happened again.

• 6S 128GB (samsung, i think)
• Happens when plugged in or unplugged.
• My phone was restored from previous phone
• Each time has happened when idle/screen off. But my wife claims hers (same model) happened while actively using it (screen just goes black). Mine has been more frequent, though.

Has anyone had luck with no-hassle replacement from Apple through the apple store?

My iPhone 6s space grey 64GB - same issue as everyone else. I did have my alarm set but I have it set for every week day. This issue started Sunday evening.

I'm not an expert but to me this seems hardware related - why else would the home button be getting warm/hot to the touch? When is that ever supposed to happen? If there isn't software that makes the home button warm then it would have to be a fault in the hardware, probably a short between the battery and home button and whatever else, I don't know the actual path. Energy converts to heat when traveling through a conductor. The constant heat from the power button means energy from the battery is actively being used.

No, it could be software related if something was in a loop continually reading the TouchID sensor then I'd expect it to heat up. If it were a hardware short then it would be all the time and a "hard reset" wouldn't fix it. Without a definite reproducible use case, this might take a while to find the edge case as clearly not everybody is having an issue. So far, since updating to 9.1B4 I have not had this return after three previous incidents. Not saying this is significant statistically but otherwise I'm not doing anything different with my phone so far....

No, it could be software related if something was in a loop continually reading the TouchID sensor then I'd expect it to heat up. Remember the TouchID usual works in a split second so it probably never gets warm under "normal" access.

If it were a hardware short then it would be all the time and a "hard reset" wouldn't fix it. Without a definite reproducible use case, this might take a while to find the edge case as clearly not everybody is having an issue. So far, since updating to 9.1B4 I have not had this return after three previous incidents. Not saying this is significant statistically but otherwise I'm not doing anything different with my phone so far....

Launch day iPhone 6s had the TorchID issue two times on 4th and 5th day of use.

Asked Apple Support for changing the Device. Replacement Phone arrived 01. October.

No problems with iOS 9.02 for 12 days. Today on day 13 it locked up again. The Home Button wasn't hot.

No reaction on pressing home or power button. No reaction to "Hey Siri" and no reaction to Home and Slide (unvisible) camera slider and pushing Volume Buttons for taking photos while Home Screen was black.

After pressing Home/Power for 10 Seconds it is working again.

So, replacing the device by a new one did not resolve the issue for me.

It is annoying.

Fix it Apple!

Have had the same issue, went to bed one night only to wake up with a Hot Touch Sensor and blank screen. Had to do a soft reset with Home +Touch ID.

Not very reliable for setting alarms to wake up to.

Issue has plagued me twice, causing me to setup a backup alarm on a non-apple product.

Hope they fix this in a new IOS release if Software related.

This just happened to me. A reset fixed it. This is discouraging as I need a working phone 24/7 as I am a physician who takes call. Posting with the hope that Apple sees this and issues a fix. I will be using my old 5S as my alarm from now on. I have an iPhone 6S 64gb Space Gray with a TSMC chip.

Im having this issue too, screen dead but burning hot home button, wouldn't turn on for about 35 mins but continued to burn away.

it physically stung to touch. Has only done it about a week and a bit back. Spoke to Apple the day it happened, they claimed it was the first they had heard of it and to go back to store. With all the complaints I've read now, I find it tough to believe it's the first they have heard of it!

Now it's just generally overheating.

on charge tonight for example I picked up the phone and it was super hot on the back.

We have a heat gun so I checked the temp 44.1c (111F) that's not right at all. VERY uncomfortable to hold.

My hand still hurts 20 mins on from holding it :-/

This phones going back!