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No home button, no problem: Navigate around your iPhone's busted bits

2016-10-04
as CNET's resident oath I smashed my iPhone 6's so well that the home button broke off completely if you are like me and unwilling to pay actual money to fix your problems or if you're just waiting for the next upgrade to find iOS is assistive touch to be a great workaround for broken or unresponsive buttons to activate assistive touch go into your settings scroll down to general scroll down again to accessibility scroll down one more time to assistive touch toggle on here this little button will pop up when your screen if you tap it you've got your home button back but with the sister touch you've got a bunch one of that you can open up your control center pull down your notification center you go into device you can put your volume up volume down take a screenshot bring up multitasking you can open voice control change screen orientation and lock the screen if you find the buttons in the way you can move it just by sliding it this will restore functionality that you may have lost through broken mute power and volume buttons and can tide you over until it's time to get a phone that actually works and it doesn't have an embarrassing story behind it
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