the iPhone 5 home button replacement is
one of the most talked about repairs
online legions of people mashing their
home buttons to no avail have been
searching far and wide for solutions
some going as far as using their iPhones
assistive touch option well you don't
have to be like them because today I'm
gonna show you how to replace your home
button in your iPhone 5
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hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and I'll be
walking you through this repair but as
always make sure to check out our step
by step guide on I pick sitcom when you
do your repair for this repair you're
going to need one of our iPhone 4
pentalobe screw drivers which
conveniently works on the iPhone 5 a
Phillips double zero screwdriver a set
of plastic opening tools a small suction
cup and a spudger if you don't have any
of these tools I would recommend
grabbing one of our pro tect tool kits
it has all the tools you'll need for
this repair and many others and while
you can do this repair without it I
strongly recommend using one of our
magnetic mats it's not listed as one of
the required tools for this repair but I
don't know how I'd live without it
the iPhone 5 has a ton of really small
screws and using the mat will not only
keep them all in one place but you can
organize them I like to write what step
I took the piece or screw out on but you
can make whatever doodles help okay so
now that I have all my parts and tools
together I'm gonna get started and as
always make sure your phone is off and
completely disconnected from any power
source check and check now we can remove
the two pentalobe screws down by the
lightning connector
okay with those screws out we're going
to use our small suction cup to help us
lift up the front panel you're gonna
want to place this right above the home
button and once you've got it on there
nice and tight
gently pull up to separate the front
panel of the rear case I personally
found this to be the most difficult part
of the repair there's several clips
around the display holding it in place
and they really work you may have to use
more force than you would think but you
only need to open it enough to get the
plastic opening tool in once you get the
tool in there you're gonna want to
gently pry the front panel away from the
rear case start at the bottom and work
your way up the sides now that the clips
along the bottom and the sides of the
phone are released we can finally lift
up the panel away from the rear case but
be careful
there are several cables that connect
the display to the phone and we don't
want to damage those you don't want to
lift the display more than about 90
degrees from the rear case next up we
need to remove the three Phillips screws
holding the cable bracket in place and
then using our trusty plastic opening
tools disconnect the three cables
connecting the display assembly to the
logic board
now that we have the front panel
assembly off we can get to work on
removing the home button moving down to
the bottom of the phone we see the two
Phillips screws holding the home button
bracket in place as soon as those screws
are removed you need to pry the home
button cable up gently make sure that
you start on the contacts that are on
the right and work your way left
otherwise you'll risk tearing the cable
if you're having trouble getting your
home button or the cables off the
adhesive can be loosened with a little
heat from the eye opener
now all I have to do is install my new
home button and work backwards upon the
step-by-step guide to reassemble my
iPhone of course you can find all the
parts and tools you need for this and
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