ios 12.0.1

Have you already tried a forced restart of your iP6? In such situations, it could be helpful:

Press and hold both Home and Side (power) buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo. When it appears, release both buttons, wait for your iphone to restart, then test it.

Regards

Giulio

Make an appointment at the genius bar and get your phone fixed. You know for a fact that you have at least one hardware problem. Even if the home button is the only thing wrong, sooner or later, you're going to be hosed if you don't get that taken care of.

Well, it's difficult to diagnose that issue remotely, but, beyond the Home button, it sounds like your screen isn't working properly in all areas (digitizer?).

The only thing I can suggest is to have your device inspected at your most convenient Apple Store or Authorized Service Provider: Apple - Find Locations - Location Selector

Regards

Giulio

Yes. That's what they call the service desk at the Apple Store.

xzmattzx wrote:

The screen itself was working fine until I updated to iOS 12.0.1 last Tuesday. I'm still having no problems in all other areas of the screen. I'm even getting a touch signal at the bottom where the problem is. The problem is that the screen just reads things that are underneath the menu that I want.

Is there another way to do a forced restart besides the Home and Power buttons?

No, not to my knowledge, sorry.

Giulio

For what it's worth I've had similar, though not quite the same issues, both after upgrading to iOs 12, and now 12.0.1. Problems with apps like bitmoji keyboard taking over messaging, then not working when I try to message after I turned the keyboard off, still shows up even though that keyboard is turned off, screen is not very responsive/intermittently responsive, very slow on Wifi (fine on cellular), very fast battery drain. When I do the hard reset the screen turns black with red stripes before going to the white screen with the apple logo. I have a 5SE.

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