apple is kicking out the home button
leaving the latest iphone se as the only
home buttoned iphone released in the
last three and a half years
there are still millions of older
iphones in the wild however
if you're one of those millions here's
what you can do if your home button
stops working
the easiest but least convenient option
is to
just deal with it you can leave your
broken home button alone and use
ios's assistive touch feature instead
this will put a virtual home button on
your screen
letting you bypass the physical home
button entirely you can find this
feature by navigating to settings
accessibility touch then selecting
assistive touch
from there flip it on and customize the
settings it works well
but it can get in the way since it
overlays itself from the screen and
covers up any text or images you're
viewing
if you don't want to mess with assistive
touch and prefer an actual working home
button you have a couple of options
replace the home button yourself or have
apple replace it for you
because the home button is paired to the
logic board on the iphone 5s and newer
replacing it will require apple's own
calibration tool to remarry those two
components
otherwise a new button may work but
touch id will cease to function
so if you want to keep touch id on your
iphone 8 you'll have to take it to apple
and pay them as much as 400 dollars
to join the two and sell the wedding
bells if that's beyond your budget you
can save most of that money and replace
the home button yourself
the bad news is touch id will no longer
work so you'll have to go back to the
passcode days the good news
it's way cheaper than 400 we sell
replacement home buttons and the proper
tools to install them for as little as
20 bucks you can get this all-inclusive
kit for your iphone 6s
6 5s and iphone 5 and 5c
for the iphone 8 7 4 and 4s
we sell the part only but the cost is
lower you could tack on
our central electronics kit and get all
the necessary tools you'll need and then
some
whatever you decide to do just know that
a broken home button isn't the end of
the world
or in this case the end of your iphone
if you're rocking an older iphone
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