*face palm* yes. It clicks when you click it. Imagine that. There is nothing wrong with my home button. It makes the same sound when I click it as my previous iPhone and my iPod touch.
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The Home button is not glass, it's a piece of sapphire that won't scratch. Fingerprint detection work best without scratches.
If it's too loud when you press the home button, take it back to an Apple store.
If it's too loud when you press the home button, take it back to an Apple store.
The Home button is not glass, it's a piece of sapphire that won't scratch. Fingerprint detection work best without scratches.
If it's too loud when you press the home button, take it back to an Apple store.
I trust the Genius bar staff is ready for your whiny ass.
my whiny ass has given them close to $20k for products over the last 5 years and >$200k of commissions on app sales.
I have accepted the fact that it doesn't give me the right for a coupon, or for a right to get the model of phone I want on release day, but I think at least it gives me the right to get a phone I can be satisfied using all day long every day...
That's a good analogy, it's actually similar to that sound, although the pitch is higher.
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I posted a video of the button clicking sound I have. It's a much higher, louder sound than my 5. It's sort of comparable to the clicking sound on the remote for the Apple TV.
http://youtu.be/Cn_yZZE-LAA
http://youtu.be/Cn_yZZE-LAA
Maybe it's normal, or just a common defect? I'm going to try chatting with Apple support and see if they'll look at the video to give me a verdict.
Their response: "I do believe it's normal because of the added hardware in it."
I have a gold iPhone 5S coming for my wife... whenever it finally ships. I'll compare the two then and see what I think after that.
...AppleCare chat is handy sometimes.
I have a gold iPhone 5S coming for my wife... whenever it finally ships. I'll compare the two then and see what I think after that.
...AppleCare chat is handy sometimes.
I have exactly the same... It would be really loud to use the phone during a quiet lecture. Think I'm gonna return, not really happy with the high pitched click;(
Mine does the same I went back to the store and tested about 10 of the display phones, they all make exactly the same noise, it is pretty noticeable and annoying.
Mine is the same, I was going to stop in at an apple store in a week after I calms down and ask the guys if that's normal. I also have a loose lock button, you can wiggle it around when it's rested to be pressed. Not by a lot, but still makes good amount of noise when just tapping it and not pressing it down
I talked to an apple rep and they told me they do not have replacement phones. If something is wrong with your 5s, you simply have to return it if you'd like to. I thought they had extra stock in case for people doing returns, but I guess not. The other two phones I mentioned that I bought are still a little louder/rougher than the 5 or any other product. Mine is the one that is over the top. Yours might be okay. If it's just louder than your other devices, but not making a weird sound like this might be broken. It's prob fine. You can take it to Apple to get it checked out if you want to be sure though.
I used to think you all were crazy for obsessing over the sound of the home button, but after watching, there definitely is something "wrong" with that. I've been through 3 iPhone 5S (the first two wouldn't activate) and none of them had that problem.
I have noticed, at least on my device, that the disturbing clicky sound comes when releasing the home button. This second "click" is with a higher frequency and cannot be heard when the button is only pressed on the edge.
Probably it is the sapphire glass hitting the metal ring. If dust or skin particles get underneath the ring the high pitch sound is less obtrusive.
Probably it is the sapphire glass hitting the metal ring. If dust or skin particles get underneath the ring the high pitch sound is less obtrusive.
sigh.... some of you just don't get it, and I am not sure why you're using Apple hardware in the first place.
The Apple of Steve Jobs that some of us used to love was the Apple that would refine the closing mechanism of a Macbook so it sounds exactly like a book closing, the same Apple that would care to make the iPhone packaging open with the perfect resistance so it feels and sounds nice when unboxing.
See, other manufacturers, they don't care about that or even understand it. Some of us really care for that.
What you are saying "different material, so of course it will sound different", is proof you just don't get it.
The challenge of the engineers was precisely to make it feel as pleasant as the previous home button experience, while adding the new feature.
Right now, the experience isn't as pleasant, the click sound is really not harmonious and the feel is not consistent from one click to the next.
If we don't care about those things, then why stick to this brand...
Mine is a lot louder than both my 5 and 4s (which i have in front of me). Mine almost makes a squeak sound. Like plastic against plastic squeak sound. I dont like it at all. When i get home ill test it with my friends 5s and see if mine is way louder or if ts normal.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.