Super Easy Fix for Stuck iPad Home Button

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Super easy step-by-step way to fix your iPad or iPhone home button if it is stuck or nor responding to your touch.

Is the home button on your iPad not responding to your touch? The home button is the larger round one at the bottom of the screen that you use to wake up your device, go to home screen or exit out of an app. It’s found on most older iPads and even a few of the new ones. And it is even found on some really old iPhones.

If you are pressing it and nothing is happening even though your screen is turned on and lit up then this video will show you how to fix it.

The most common reason your home button is not responding is because it is stuck. This most often happens when something sticky gets worked into the tiny cracks around the edges of the button. If you – like me – sometimes eat when you are using your iPad sticky fingers might just be the culprit. Sticky foods lead to sticky fingers and – you guessed it – this leads to a sticky home button – which eventually gets stuck!
Fear not. There is a simple solution to this very sticky problem.

Step One
Dig around the house for these two very common items. The first is some Q-tips (also know as cotton swabs) or if you don’t have those, a cotton ball. In a pinch you could even use a soft wash cloth.

The second item is isopropyl alcohol (also known as rubbing alcohol). Every house seems to have a white plastic bottle of this somewhere, usually under the bathroom sink! If necessary, you can buy it at any drug or grocery store for a dollar or two. Note we are using alcohol and NOT water because alcohol evaporates very quickly while water might seep into the inside of your device and damage the electronics.

Step Two
Now that you have all the necessary tools let’s get to work. First dip your Q-tip or cotton ball or the corner of your wash cloth in the alcohol. Just make it slightly damp, not soaked. NEVER pour the alcohol directly onto your iPad. Now use damp q-tip (or whatever) to gently work in a circular motion around the edge of your home button. Do three or four of circles and then tap tap tap with a CLEAN finger on the button. We are trying to work it loose as we clean the gunk out of the edges of the button. You might have to repeat these two steps – alternately rubbing in a circular motion and then tapping – several times. It all depends on just how much sticky stuff is trapped in there.

Eventually your home button should start working again. If so I have one more trick for you!

I eat nearly all my meals while reading or looking at stuff on my iPad. So I know it’s just a matter of time before I gum up the home button again. In order to keep that from happening I have placed a little strip of scotch tape over the home button so that it is completely covered. With this in place my home button still works but sticky stuff will never clog it up again.

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It worked for me! You have to do it a couple of times and rub it in circles ON the home button, not around it. You have to kinds slide it over to its correct spot. Thank you!

ReggieRooster

It worked! My granddaughter was caught pushing on mine but this fixed it🎉🎉🎉thank you!

k.m.

My son's iPad had a non-responsive button. Looked like it got knocked out of place, maybe he pressed it too hard? To fix it, I took a piece of masking tape, stuck it to the button and tugged on the tape to move the button back into position. Fixed the problem.

busterinny

I felt too much talk to get to the point. We know what a home button is and we don't need a long explanation of what sticky foods are, but thanks for taking the time to upload this.

corolex

Thank you so much my home button isn’t mushy to press now it clicks again like new ❤😊

DrkSideMM

Thanks for this. I'd been using assistive touch thinking it was a bigger issue and now it's fixed!

kayelinsa

Thanks much. This has worked a treat. I can bring an “old” iPad back into action and use it in the garage. You have saved me heaps. Karma 🙏🙏 to you kind sir

petermillard

I think that wont work for my ipad it’s because my home button is even not that dirty, my home button is stuck it’s because i always press it and over and over again

AlanBloxx

Thank you very much - this worked fast.

maryweeks

OMG THIS WORKED MY BUTTON WAS LIKE NOT WORKING AND AFTER DOING THIS IT WORKED THANK YOU 🙏

leonelgonzalez

thankyou, it’s not stiff anymore and now clicky

Donutpalwasha

No. This isn’t what I meant. Like my home button is literally tilted in my iPad. It is literally stuck some where up under my iPad.

The_perfect_circle_yt

This worked for my iPad but I tried it for my brothers iPad but it didn’t work, I think I left it like that for too long since it got stuck a year ago-

Playz

Try this. With your iPad in portrait view (long ways up and down), press and hold the home button. While continuing to hold the home button, turn the iPad to landscape view (long ways left to right), then back to portrait view. Make sure your screen rotates when you do this. Now let go of the home button. Hopefully, this is a fix to the "more common" issue in this case and resolves your problem.

Good luck!

ErenYeagerli