The Home Button on iPhone 7 Series. The iPhone 7 series phones change the Home button dramatically. On earlier models the button was truly a button: something you could click that would move. On the 7 series, the Home button is actually a solid, 3D Touch-enabled panel. When you press it, nothing moves.
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Here's how to fix a broken iPhone Home button (or get it fixed), and a useful software workaround that will make life easier until you get it repaired. by | 18 Oct 16. My iPhone's Home button doesn't work any more. I have to press the Home button really hard to get it to respond, and sometimes even that doesn't work.
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Alongside cracked screens, the home button was one of the first things to fail on previous models, as it's typically used a lot more than the volume or power buttons. By making it a solid state button, it should be less likely to fail. Additionally, it means you can change how the button feels or acts.
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How to fix a broken iPhone Home button: Software workaround. iOS has a neat feature that helps when hardware buttons stop working. To activate this, go to the Settings app, and select General, then Accessibility. Scroll down to the Interaction section, and tap AssistiveTouch.
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The iPhone 7 Home button is a touch-sensitive area that is slightly lower than the rest of the phone screen. The button features a fingerprint reader and, like the trackpad on the 12-inch MacBook, is powered by a Taptic engine. When you push the Home button area, you’ll feel a button click and depression.
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Once you get past the newness of the iPhone 7 Home button, there are some important things to know moving forward: 1  Because Apple has removed the moving parts from the Home button, you’re less likely to break it. 2  Stop exercising your thumb. 3  Fingernails and most capacitive gloves no longer activate the Home button.
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Choose your click. During the initial setup of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, you come across the option to Choose your click. This allows you to adjust the intensity of the simulated home button click. There are three options to choose from: light (1), medium (2) and heavy (3) clicks.
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The Home button is used in all kinds of apps and actions (this article is updated for iOS 10, but many of the tips apply to earlier versions, too), including to: 1  Access Siri—Holding down the Home button will launch Siri. 2  Multitasking—Double clicking the Home button reveals all running apps in the multitasking manager.
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Here's how to fix a broken iPhone Home button, or work around the problem using a handy feature in iOS if you can't. Update 18 October 2016: The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus don't feature a physical Home button, but there is still a chance of the button malfunctioning - as it did for iwayne on the MacRumours Forums.
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Using your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad without the Home Button. Simulate the Home button. To navigate without the home button, you will want to enable AssistiveTouch. This can be done by going to Settings > General > Accessibility, and scroll until you see AssistiveTouch*. You will want to turn that on. *AssistiveTouch requires iOS 5 for the Accessibility menu.
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which is the home button on iphone
A solid, Three Dimensional Touch-enabled panel on iPhone is the home button.