How to handle when iPhone fails the power button

Although the part is rarely used, however, the power button on the iPhone / iPad plays an important role when you want to restart the computer, turn off the device, etc. However, it is not rare for the power button to suddenly get stuck. , no longer as sensitive as before or even unable to work.

And in case this happens, Apple has built in a number of features to help users overcome this situation. You can use the virtual power button from the Assistive Touch feature, replacing the broken physical power button. This virtual power button is full of functions like the physical power button, screen lock, and shutdown.

The following article will guide you how to use Assistive Touch, as well as some ways to turn on, restart iPhone / iPad when the power button is broken.

1. How to activate Assistive Touch:

First of all, we need to enable this feature to use the virtual power button. In addition, this feature can also replace the virtual Home key and volume keys.

To start Assistive Touch, press the Settings button (Settings)> General settings (General)> Accessibility (Accessibility)> Assistive Touch . Then push the horizontal bar to the right to start Assistive Touch.

Soon we will see the virtual button on the screen interface. We can move this virtual button anywhere on the screen to facilitate its use. Users can use this feature to replace the virtual Home button.

2. Lock the iPhone / iPad screen when the power button fails:

Once you have a virtual Home button on the screen, turning off the screen becomes much simpler. Touch the virtual Home button on the screen, select Device, and choose Next Screen Lock (Lock Screen).

In addition to iOS devices, users should also turn on the automatic screen lock feature. Access Settings (Settings)> Display & Brightness (Display & Brightness)> Auto lock (Auto Lock) and then select the time for the device to automatically turn off the screen.

3. Turn off the iPhone / iPad without using the power button:

We also click on the virtual Home button and select Device. Then hold your finger on the Lock Screen button, until the screen appears. Slide to turn off the power (Slide to Power Off). And you just need to swipe from left to right. The interface is completely the same when the power is turned off with the physical power key.

4. Open iPhone / iPad when power button is broken:

Above we can turn off the power via the virtual Home button, so can we turn on the device if unfortunately the power button is paralyzed? With Android devices, we can assign the function of the power button to the volume key, but the iOS device is not possible.

In this case, we just need to connect the iPhone / iPad to iTunes with the USB cable to get the device to boot. If the device has run out of battery before then, we will connect it to charge the battery for a while and then you need to wait to restart the device.

5. Take a screenshot when the power button fails:

Usually, to take screen shots we will use up to 2 power buttons and a physical Home button. But if the power button is paralyzed, then you can take advantage of the virtual Home button. We click on the virtual Home button, click on the Device, select Add (More) and choose Screen capture (Screenshot).

So with the Assistive Touch feature, we can perform the opening, turning off iPhone / iPad or even lock the screen with the virtual Home button, when the physical power button has problems. Best when using everyday you should also use virtual Home button, combined with power button to use in many different cases.

Hope this article is useful to you!