How to Recalibrate Your iPhone’s Home Button to Make it More Responsive

Jeff Benjamin, Dec 22, 2011

Sometimes the Home button on the iPhone just starts getting a little funky, a little laggy, a bit unresponsive.

Most of the time, those issues are software based, unless of course you’ve dropped your iPhone in water while feeding your pet fish.

For us non-fish owners, we’ve confirmed that a simple recalibration is usually all that’s needed to fix most issues with the iPhone’s Home button. Take a look at our video tutorial inside…

How to Recalibrate Your iDevice’s Home Button

Step 1: Open a stock app, like Weather or Stocks.

Step 2: Press and hold your power button until “slide to power off” appears and release.

Step 3: Press and hold your Home button until the “slide to power off” goes away, and the app force quits. Your iPhone’s Home button should now be more responsive, because it has been recalibrated.

I realize this is a known trick that’s been floating around for some time, but I just used it myself personally for the first time and I got good results. What about you?

 
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  • http://twitter.com/danalaperle Dana

    Jeff,
    Keep up the incredible work! I appreciate all the videos!!!!!
    Thanks

  • http://www.facebook.com/mofodox Khairul Akmal

    Does this work ont the iOS 5.1b2?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003004519659 Whare Herehere Pakaru

    It crashes my springboard. Then I have to restart it. ????? Wtf there’s obviously a tweak or app that crashing it but how do I find out which one????

  • http://twitter.com/geoseventyfour Georg Koe

    Did work for me on iPhone 4.

  • http://twitter.com/blckaapl B L C K A A P L

    Mind over matter.
    Just like taking Placebos.
    No use calibrating if its really duped.
    ;P

  • http://twitter.com/iMitendra Mitendra Anand

    it works on iPhone4 too. Thanks Jeff :)

  • http://photographya.info/wonderful-butterfly-photography/ butterfly

    worked for me :P

  • Anonymous

    Why do we have to do this ? It Works perfectly but anybody can explain this “hack” ?

  • Anonymous

    I’m afraid to say all you are experiencing is the placebo effect. All those steps do is force quit all applications. It’s a built in feature from apple, I’d have thought all these iOS blogs would’ve done a bit of research before writing such long articles on something that is completely false!

  • Anonymous

    I’m afraid to say all you are experiencing is the placebo effect. All those steps do is force quit all applications. It’s a built in feature from apple, I’d have thought all these iOS blogs would’ve done a bit of research before writing such long articles on something that is completely false!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Csylvester87 Chris Sylvester

    I’m sure alot of you have triple click home button action turned on.. It causes a long delay, try turning it off or make sure it already is

  • http://twitter.com/SueEPig Katrina Collins

    This was amazing! I have had a problem with my home button for some time and all is right in the world now. Thank you! Thank you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003094546209 Chaiviwat Siribodhi

    wow this actually worked. Thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/prince.asad1 Asad Ishfaq

    thats really awesum thnxx

  • Anonymous

    Wow, yes! Super skeptical when I saw this but it worked perfectly. The lag for the task switcher to pop up was almost unbearable and this completely fixed it.

  • http://www.chrissouthcott.com/ cjschris

    Woah! I’ve had my iPod replace 2 times because of this thinking it was a hardware issue. And the Apple shop replace it.

    Now I know it’s just a software bug! Thanks so much.

  • Anonymous

    I agree, it is a HOME-button saver.

    But I definitely will not use the STOCKS app, as the “stock app”, as you suggest.

    Simply, because if I do, the bleeding red will make me smash my iPhone against the wall, and the HOME button will not be of any use, anymore.

  • http://twitter.com/BlueSpArKyB Bhavesh Patel

    This is amazingly brilliant. As @billypuntove said, it stops the switcher bar lag

  • http://twitter.com/DogyLover143 Nick

    This will help a lot

  • http://www.facebook.com/Facchinibr Andy Facchini

    This is a just a placebo effect.
    Dumped the entire contents of my iPhone 4 (jailbroke). Did it. Dumped again.
    Changes? Crash logs because I forced quit the settings.app and Multi Tasking tray icon positions. plist.
    You’re not recalibrating anything. Put your phone in airplane mode (avoid changes in location crap) and do it yourself, compare and see that it does absolute NOTHING.

  • http://twitter.com/dinozilla Wilfred

    I believe wear and tear still applies in some aging device…and in my case…no this is not working

  • Anonymous

    This worked on my iPod Touch. Which I was about to get rid of because of this very problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Vermeer/584291867 Mark Vermeer

    Worked great for my iPhone 4. Thanks for the tip!

  • Painman

    Amazing, there’s an obvious glitch in iOS that has been around for several versions and everyone gets excited about a temporary fix for it.

    How about we all start jumping up and down and demanding that Apple get their act together and fix their shit?

    No, I didn’t think so!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1457850710 Praveen Kumar Pasumarti

    Guys, Best solution for your sluggish home button..!!

  • http://frou.org/ frou

    Placebo effect in action.

    Most button issues are clearly mechanical and not software.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OCKG34VWBCTY6NRQNU3QI5PXX4 Daph

    amazing.. it really works

  • http://www.tousgeeks.com Hamza Chahid

    Thanks

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marlon-Greg-Ceballe/1261923209 Marlon Greg Ceballe

    It works like a charm! Thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marlon-Greg-Ceballe/1261923209 Marlon Greg Ceballe

    It works like a charm. Thanks iDB!

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