[iPhone 5] Sleep button becoming unresponsive

Wafflausages said:

I've been noticing that it takes a couple presses to get my phone to sleep. I've never dropped my phone or anything. I've had it since release. Does anyone else have this issue

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I have been having that issue lately too!! It's annoying! I took it to the Apple store today and they told me I had to do a DFU restore? instead of a restore, so I agreed and they did it but I am continuing to have the same problem!

I also have this issue. Sometimes it takes 4-5 presses to get sleep to function. It started the day after the 6.0.1 update. I hope 6.1 will fix it!

I have the same issue. I received a new iphone 5 in the mail yesterday, activated it and the sleep/wake button doesn't do a thing. Fail.

Wafflausages said:

I've been noticing that it takes a couple presses to get my phone to sleep. I've never dropped my phone or anything. I've had it since release. Does anyone else have this issue

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Here are the steps to take to resolve this issue.

1) Get into your car
2) Drive to nearest (or furthest) Apple Store
3) Walk into Apple Store
4) Talk to Genius
5) Possibly have phone repaired or replaced
6) Go home happy or sad depending on result

ChrisCC said:

Exactly. get it switched out asap. an iphone with a non-responsive sleep button means major battery drain because the screen is always on

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The screen auto dims and the phone goes to sleep on its own. Obviously you want your sleep button to work, but the phone will still sleep if you don't push it.

ChrisCC said:

Exactly. get it switched out asap. an iphone with a non-responsive sleep button means major battery drain because the screen is always on

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Both Assistive Touch and Auto-Lock would negate that issue.

lostprophet894 said:

Both Assistive Touch and Auto-Lock would negate that issue.

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So would getting the faulty phone replaced.

Thing is, I have a feeling this is not hardware related. My issue started right when I updated.

Happened to me a week ago. Went to apple store and they swapped it out no problem

VandyChem2009 said:

So would getting the faulty phone replaced.

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Not saying it's a long term solution. Not everybody lives close to an Apple store and/or has the time to make the trip.

Decided to drop by apple today when I was in the neighborhood. Was there for a total of about 10mins and left with a new phone. They didn't even want to mess with it so I didn't figure out what exactly was causing the issue.