There’s nothing like a quick recalibration to make your gadgets feel that much faster. In the case of your iDevice, you may have noticed your home button isn’t a quick to bring up the Springboard as it used to be. If that’s the case, this easy tweak might be exactly what you’re after.
These steps are brought to us by Redmond Pie, so be sure to thank them when you can. There’s nothing complicated about it at all and, after you’re done, you should have a snappier home button. So, here’s what you need to do.
1. Open up one of the built-in iOS apps. This can be Weather, Mail, Contacts… whatever. As long as it’s one of the original apps on your device.
2. Hold the power button until the slide-off graphic appears. When it does, release the power button.
3. Hold down the home button until the slide-off graphics disappears. You should be back at the home screen.
That’s it, you’re done! I tried this on my iPhone 4 and it felt slightly snappier. If you’ve noticed your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch’s home button isn’t as quick as it used to be, there’s no harm in giving this a go. Let us know your results.
How To Recalibrate iPhone Home Button To Make It More Responsive [Redmond Pie]
Ham
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 1:01 PMWhat the hell is this black magic, it actually works!
It probably puts this action to the top of the process queue somehow
Pat
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 1:57 PMI saw this article a few days ago on Redmond Pie, but unfortunately had no effect on my iPhone 4.
Tapping the Home Button once may bring up multitasking, or tapping it twice brings it to Spotlight Search. Extremely frustrating!!!
Any tips?
Oscar
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 12:05 AMI have exactly the same problem with my iPod touch. From what I can see, it’s a hardware problem (I.e. the button is broken), and I don’t think it can be fixed by anything other than replacing the device, which I sadly can no longer do. My work around is to find there part of the button I can press which works properly, which for me is the top left corner. Good luck!
Bob
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 2:18 PMMy home button has always been snappy so I don’t see the point of this
Glen
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 4:15 PMWow! This is brilliant!!!!!!! I can’t believe how much of a diff this makes. I guess you need to use ur phone a lot, and download lots of apps – for those saying it’s made no diff
Mena
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 6:52 PMIt’s working whatsoever. In my opinion, any positive effected are either imagined or coincidental and certainly don’t last. I’m getting my iPhone 4 replace due to its faulty home button. Can’t even multitask anymor,e which is extremely frustrating. :(
Mena
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 9:41 PM* It’s NOT working whatsoever. Should proof read better. :)
Romana Challans
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 8:27 PMDamn. It worked! Or at least, it did in my perception it did…
John
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 9:33 PMIt does indeed work.
Are you able to explain what it’s doing and is it a temporary or permanent fix?
Dante
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 11:46 AMOr if this doesn’t work just replace the home button. Mine was annoyingly unresponsive due to overuse causing wear to the metal tab spring behind the home button. eBay has replacements for like $8! Make sure you get the one with the connector tape tho.
VoN
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 12:50 PMAwesomesauce!
Home button works a great again.
It was getting sluggish and unresponsive, but it’s back to its original form. Thank you.
I have heaps and heaps of apps. I choose the weather app to do this on.
Also using iOS 5.01.
Thank you!
prashy
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 10:20 PMworked for me
Dr_Stef
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 8:44 AMDon’t see any improvement, must mean my home button was already snappy enough?
Kale
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:09 PMA friend did this for me the other day and it sped up the home button return for sure,
but my ‘words with friend’s ap has NOT worked since then. Are these things related?
It is a very big coincidence.
I’d rather have a slow home button and the ability to still use Words personally.
Fail :(
pu
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:41 PMworked for me.