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home button unlock

My iPhone 6 is currently very obnoxious. Quoting another person who had the same issue but didn't either get a solution:

"The home button will work to 'wake-up' the phone from a black screen. However I cannot use the home button after this to bring me to the screen for entering the passcode... In order to get to the screen for entering the passcode, I swipe left and try to open an app, which brings me to the passcode screen and from this point forward my home button operates normally.

So - only when my phone is locked is the home button... useless. This strikes me as a software issue and not a hardware issue."

Any thoughts?

iPhone 6, iOS 11.2.5

Posted on Feb 27, 2018 11:37 AM

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askbarnabas

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Feb 27, 2018 3:33 PM in response to miofrom

Take it to the Apple store genius bar for an evaluation. Before doing that, you can try going to settings>general>reset>reset all settings (this will not delete any info). You can also restore to factory settings and setup as new. Make a full backup first but do not use the backup to set it up.

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ckuan

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Feb 27, 2018 3:41 PM in response to miofrom

miofrom wrote:

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So - only when my phone is locked is the home button... useless. This strikes me as a software issue and not a hardware issue."

Any thoughts?

There are many millions iPhones out there with Touch ID (iPhone 5s, SE, 6, 6Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 8 & 8 Plus) running 11.2.5 and 11.2.6

FWIW, I have 5s, 6, 6s, 6s Plus, 7 and 8 Plus and there is no issue with Touch ID all running on iOS 11.2.6

What troubleshooting steps have you done?

Any Restart, Reset, Restore from backup and Restore as new?

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miofrom Author

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Feb 28, 2018 12:51 AM in response to ckuan

The issue is not with Touch ID. The menu for entering pin OR using Touch ID appears maybe 20 % of the times after pressing the home button, which is fairly rare. When it does, unlocking with Touch ID works 80 % of the time.

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