"Silent Slide" broke off

[madtodaimax]

I guess I ended up sleeping on my phone and noticed in the morning that the slide that turns the phone to silent broke off. Is there any way of replacing it?

 

[dukebound85]

you can try taking it back

however, you imply you did it correct? maybe superglue?

 

[jmann]

Sometimes apple replaces iPhones for that problem. Make a genius bar appoinment here and have them look at it.

 

[tayshon]

It happened to my phone I took it to the Apple store they replaced it.

 

[TheSpaz]

This has been known to happen.

 

[madtodaimax]

made an appointment. got it replaced easily. weird that they checked for water damage even though the problem had nothing to do with it falling in water.

 

[kas23]

made an appointment. got it replaced easily. weird that they checked for water damage even though the problem had nothing to do with it falling in water.

They do this because people who have pre-existing water damage have attempted to break these switches off and then go to Apple and try to get it replaced due to the broken switch.

 

[synagence]

Common fault, i've had it happen one 2 iphones ... both were 99% time living in cases

 

[techguy1]

Happened to mine quite a few months ago .. haven't really missed it. Simply turn volume up/down.

 

[goodcow]

Happened to mine quite a few months ago .. haven't really missed it. Simply turn volume up/down.

You realize how half assed your solution is? If it's under warranty, get it replaced. It'll also increase their warranty costs for the iPhone in turn letting them address quality control better in the future.

 

[46 Bear]

Wow... its good to know that I wasn't the only person that had the silent switch broken...

 

[bmcgrath]

Happened to mine quite a few months ago .. haven't really missed it. Simply turn volume up/down.

Why would you do that? If it's under warranty just get it fixed. And turning the volume down low is not silent.....