If your iPhone button is not responding and you're out of warranty, here are four things you can do to fix it.

Custom taps: Make a double-tap lock your phone, or a long-press take a screenshot. You’re in control. Your own gestures: ...

You can get the Home button back. Read on to find out what you need to do. Add a Home button to iPhone screen iOS includes an accessibility option that displays a software Home button on the screen.

Open the Settings app on your iPhone running iOS 16. Scroll down and tap “Home Screen.” Toggle the Show on Home Screen option to the “Off” position to disable the button.

Returning Home Besides helping you unlock the device, the Home button's biggest job was always being the physical button that returned you to the main iPhone screen no matter what app you were in.

As it turns out, the new "solid-state" Home button on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus requires skin contact or the right kind of capacitive gloves to function.