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iPhone 5S home button is making loud clicking noise

After realignment of my screen due to screen click issue, my iPhone 5s home button became more solid when clicking it.

This was done by an apple genius.

BTW i have a iPhone 5s bought at launch day.

My 4s didn't have these issues, i just think the 4s has a much solid design.

Hope this helps.
 
mcdj said:
I'm really starting to miss the simplicity of the old standard home button.

The first 5S I had was great for a while. No loud clicking. Then randomly one day, a couple weeks after getting it, it started making this horrible crunching sound, and the click started feeling very uneven. I took it to the Genius Bar for a fresh one.

This one has had a loud click at certain angles from day one. And now the sapphire crystal has developed a wiggle.

For lack of a better way to describe it, the button feels, dirty. I feel like dirt is getting trapped inside, and around the edge. It feels oily too.

I don't now why Apple couldn't implement touch id into the old design. When I saw the blow apart animation of the new button assembly, I immediately thought to myself, man this has way too many parts, and is going to fail.

I love the speed of the new chip. Touch ID is a real time saver and I would seriously miss it. But I have considered selling my 5S and going back to a 5 because the button is driving me nuts.
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If it helps, i returned mine. Especially since I paid 812$ and this phone is made like crap. Loose sleep wake and a very horrible cheap home button. Swapped it out, went back to my nice jail broken iPhone 5 in pristine condition. I couldn't be happier.

For years I was that guy who needed every single new iPhone ASAP. But the price tag on this device is not worth the full price unlocked. Period. I got my 5 for 200$ from a good friend too.
 
Wanted to add that my ~2.5 month old 5s has recently started having the issue some of you are reporting. It's not just a loud click, it's a click that has a crunching sound and feels like you're clicking through dirt or glass. Today, I experienced an issue where the touch ID did not work at all. I wasn't getting the try again error I occasionally get, it just wasn't picking up anything.
 
It sounds amazingly cheap and brittle.

Remember reading how long Apple spent searching for the perfect click for the MacBook trackpads... Times long gone?
 
joeluken said:
Which is why it's soooooooo disappointing that it makes a cheap and nasty "clack" sound depending on where and how hard you press it. Added to the power button rattle issue it feels as if Apple has dropped the ball with regard to attention to detail and build quality.

Also think about it this way.

Premium car manufacturers spend a lot time and money ensuring the doors on their cars make a satisfyingly solid sound when shut. This makes a difference because customers associate this attention to detail with good design and quality.

If its sounds cheap and nasty it is cheap and nasty in the customers mind.
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Agreed!!
 
My home button feels very solid and no strange angles when depressed which I noticed all the phones in the apple store had this issue on launch month.
Has it now been fixed? Mine is week 49 manufacture.

However the power button rattles and was my 3rd replacement until I gave up due to the stress of the whole thing with incompetence from Apple online and store.
 
Crap. My 5S I've had since early October started exhibiting these symptoms a week ago. Thought I could live with it, but I was wrong. Gonna go to the apple store tomorrow.
 
I just started having this problem this morning. Or at least I just noticed it. I've used the 3GS and the 4S without ever having a problem. I'm about 35 days into my 5S and it's making this horrible sound when I click the home button. I don't expect subsidized prices will be available the next time I purchase a phone so I might have this one a lot longer than the last two. I don't want to hear this every time I click it.

I purchased the phone from Best Buy, can I still take it into an Apple store for help? :confused: I'm disappointed.
 
agffth said:
I just started having this problem this morning. Or at least I just noticed it. I've used the 3GS and the 4S without ever having a problem. I'm about 35 days into my 5S and it's making this horrible sound when I click the home button. I don't expect subsidized prices will be available the next time I purchase a phone so I might have this one a lot longer than the last two. I don't want to hear this every time I click it.

I purchased the phone from Best Buy, can I still take it into an Apple store for help? :confused: I'm disappointed.
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Didn't notice this thread before ... What sound are you speaking about ?
Click is different on 5S just because the button is physically different. It is sapphire glass and there is a totally new mechanism behind (TouchId).
 
Max(IT) said:
Didn't notice this thread before ... What sound are you speaking about ?
Click is different on 5S just because the button is physically different. It is sapphire glass and there is a totally new mechanism behind (TouchId).
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It's 3 loud clicks.

Just putting pressure on the button but not pressing on the way down produces a click. Pressing all the way down produces a click. And then on the way back up it clicks again. So there seems to be two spots in the up\down motion that a click is happening. That middle click is the one that's really annoying.
 
agffth said:
It's 3 loud clicks.

Just putting pressure on the button but not pressing on the way down produces a click. Pressing all the way down produces a click. And then on the way back up it clicks again. So there seems to be two spots in the up\down motion that a click is happening. That middle click is the one that's really annoying.
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On mine there is just one click, and it's not loud.
It feels and sounds different from my previous 5 (and from the previous 4S also), but there are reasons.
 
Max(IT) said:
On mine there is just one click, and it's not loud.
It feels and sounds different from my previous 5 (and from the previous 4S also), but there are reasons.
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If you only have one click, your phone is defective. It clicks when you press in, and it clicks as the button comes up. Two clicks.
 
Mine started doing that a couple weeks after I got it and the apple store swapped it out immediately. This was back in September or October. The clicking turned into the touch ID failing about half the time.
 
Lucille Carter said:
If Apple made it not click as loud people would complain about that too.

This is what happens when people got too much time on their hands and their worst problem is the click on their home button.:p

If you were older, had a family and job, you would be worrying about your health care and not the home button on your iPhone:p
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Was you comment meant seriously?

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WilliamG said:
Every 5s clicks when you let go of a pressed home button. It's physics.
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Personally, I thought it was just a bad design, or poor quality control, so I'd appreciate it if you would explain the physics to me. More specifically the physics of why sometimes it does click fairly loud, and other times its completely silent? By the way, that would include sometimes clicking loudly - when pressing as well as releasing - while sometimes not clicking at all.
 
I recently had my 5S swapped due to a screen clicking problem, the home button on the old phone was very clicky and loud and if u tapped the button lightly it sounded like it was raised and there was a pocket of air underneath it, sorry its not the best description just the easiest way to explain. The button worked fine though as did the touch id. The new phone though the home button is a lot nicer to use. It feels and sounds a lot more solid, the old phone i could get the button to stop clicking so much by pressing it down on one side. I'm half expecting the new phone to develop the same problem at some point but as i say the button still works it's just a bit annoying.
 
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