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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here the tutorial on how to fix a home button on an iPhone iPod Touch iPad it might be taking too long to do something randomly working or just totally dead but with this tutorial you should at least be able to get your device usable again the first step is the simplest just reboot your device since most devices rarely rebooted sometimes as can get a bit screwy after a while so all you need to do is hold the power button down until they slide to unlock screen shows up just slide it and once the pinwheel goes away hold the power button again for a second and let your device boot back up unlock it and give the home button a shot if that didn't work there are other things you can try the next step would be to calibrate the home button while its rear sometimes your home button can get out of sync with iOS and can be slow to respond to fix open up a default app like weather with it still open hold the power button just like you're restarting it as soon as the slide to unlock shows up press and hold the home button keep holding it until slide to unlock goes away and you see the app closed now give your home button a shot and see how responsive it is if your home button still isn't working then the hardware button itself is likely broken don't give up yet though there are a couple of things you can do the easy way is to enable a software home button to do this go into settings scroll down to general and then down to accessibility these are made for people with disabilities however if your home button is working you can enable assistive touch a small button will appear which you can push to any corner of the screen give it a tap and you'll see some options including home tap that anytime you need to use your home button and you've got yourself a working device again the difficult option is to replace the home button assembly depending on what tools you have it's not altogether expensive but it requires you to take your entire device apart to get at the home button which isn't easy at all if you want to give this a shot I fix it has some excellent tutorials for any device you have and I'll have a link in the description hopefully you guys found this helpful if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more tutorials like this be sure to subscribe