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How to Save the home button from wear and tear

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Who else use assisitive touch on your Iphone to prevent from using physical home button
 
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haha I have been using Assistive Touch a lot to save it from wear and tear and as a lousy man's Zephyr.

Need ma jailbreak. Stat.
 
While I appreciate people's justification of using assistive touch to prevent the home button from wearing out, I personally prefer just to use the home button as Apple intended it to be used - to me, it feels better using the home button rather than having to touch the assistive touch icon which is permanently on top of whatever app you're using.

I have AppleCare and conveniently have an Apple store close to me. If it breaks, I'll simply go down to the Apple store and pick up a fix/replacement.

Incidentally, ifixit have shown that the home button in the iPhone 5 is somewhat different to those found in iPhones of late. I think the iPhone 5 home button may prove to be more durable than the home button in the 4/4S but only time will tell.
 
the home button won't wear down on these things. many many years later and the home button on my 2nd gen ipod touch is pristine as day one
 
dellAbait said:
the home button won't wear down on these things. many many years later and the home button on my 2nd gen ipod touch is pristine as day one
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The experience of many people is that the iPhone home button stops responding correctly after 1-2 years.

This is a particular problem on the iPhone 4 and 4S due to the design of the button.
 
I think getting gunk and dirt in the gap between the home button and the rest of the display makes things worse.
 
Just to make you feel better, my launch iPhone 4 home button still works perfectly even after pressing it tens of thousands of times for over 2 straight years.
 
Daveoc64 said:
The experience of many people is that the iPhone home button stops responding correctly after 1-2 years.

This is a particular problem on the iPhone 4 and 4S due to the design of the button.
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That's only the problem of the 4
4S has already changed the design of the home button.
 
Just use the home button. There's hardly any wear and tear.

I used Assistive Touch for awhile and got used to it. But afterwards, using the physical buttons are easier. I don't have any "accessibility problems" so I don't need to use Assistive Touch.

Also, using the app Carat, turning off Assistive Touch would save me ~6 mins of battery life. Would rather have battery life > home button "wear"
 
I don't use AT because of a bug I am experiencing where the backlight won't shut off when AT is activated.
 
What the hell is assistive touch and how do I enable it?

I hate my home button and miss Zephyr:p
 
Rule of thumb: Just remember that you don't need a lot of force to push the home button.
 
On my jail broken 4, I almost never touched my physical buttons since I used activator actions for everything. . With the 5, having to hit the button literally hundreds of times a day, I'm also worried about wearing it out. Hopefully the new button is improved as some folks suggest. I do know lots of folks who's buttons stopped working on previous models. Thanks for the assistive touch suggestion, I wasn't aware of it.
 
Lololol, nope, if mine stops working out of warranty and no home button replacements are available, I'll switch to assistive touch.
 
I'm use to using AT. The little square does get annoying, especially when it shrinks back down after I open it and it disappears on me sometimes(watching videos).
 
richpuer said:
My iphonen4 home button quit working on launch day of ip5. Perfect timing. I hope this current home button lasts longer
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they did change the home button on the 5. i think they put some kind of a metal plate behind it to make it stronger and more durable
 
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