Press Home To Upgrade

1. Connect phone to iTunes on computer.

2. Press and hold the power button, volume down and home button until u see the picture connect to iTunes.

3. Follow prompt on computer to update or restore iPhone. (I chose restore)

4. Then it says iPhone recovery mode and iTunes is downloading the software for this iPhone and will restore your iPhone when the download is complete.

My old iPhone 5 accidentally ran into the Apple logo stuck today. After updated to iOS 10.3.3 in DFU mode, it appeared to fall back to the old problem for quite a while before falling into this "press home to upgrade" stuck. My solution was to 1. press home; 2. try to connect it with iTune on my computer and press "try again" in the dialog box; 3. press home again. Then it turned into iPhone passcode and the whole upgrade was completed. Although the new system appears to be awkward for me, I am still happy that my old set survived the crisis without losing any data. Maybe it's time for me to have a new iPhone 7s 🙂

Are you connected to iTunes when this happens? I saw this with one of my updates, and not only did I have to press the home button, there was a dialog box on the computer that indicated to press a button to try again. After pressing the Home button, and the button on the computer, it prompted for the iPhone passcode.

Okay, so you pressed the home button and then clicked on the Try Again on the computer and nothing happened? If you disconnect the phone from the computer, what happens?

What version of iTunes are you using, and what computer OS. The iOS 10.0.2 requires iTunes version 12.5.1, and that requires Windows 7 or above.

Then I would try using the steps in this support document. If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

As a last resort you might try putting the phone into restore mode and trying the update again. Be careful though! Doing this will delete data from your phone

I had a similar issue with my 5c last night. My home button died about a week ago when I was replacing the battery. I started using the virtual home button through that I set up through the iphone setting. So last night I decided to update the new software OS X, what i did not realize is that OS X takes away the swipe option and replaces it with the press home button option in order to unlock the phone. So the phone was stuck at a white screen asking me to press the home button to enter the pin to unlock it so it could complete the update. With the home button dead I was stuck with no other option. I read through all other threads and there was no post the gave me hope to fix the problem, finally I decided to reopen my phone and in between the home button and the home button circuit board (inside the phone where the home button rests when you press it), I figured there must be missing some kind of incomplete electric circuit, so I decided to get a small paper foil and placed it in between the home button and the circuit board and to my surprise it worked after putting the phone back together again and pressing the home button I was asked to enter my password, and the update completed. I was so luck in that after that the home button died again, i started using the virtual home button again. My advice either do not update if your home button is not working or if you do, first remove the password.

THANK YOU!!! I got to this point (after my iPad crashed)...once I was able to press the home key, similar to how you press it to unlock it with the new upgrade, i FINALLY got the passcode screen to come up and was able to go forward.

I had the same problem having tried all the responses I found that pressing the home button on and off 6/7 times brings up the passcode screen,