Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

The lock screen button on my iPhone 4S has stopped working- anyone else on here had this issue and fixed it themselves? If so, how difficult was the operation, and what did you need?

i broke my power button when i dropped my iphone last week. it's a right fucking pain.

as an (annoying) workaround you can turn on something called assistive touch which is a mode for people who i guess lack the motor control to use the physical buttons.

go to general -> accessibility -> triple click and set it to Assistive Touch

when you press the home screen three times in succession a white dot will appear at the top left of the screen. click that and a menu pops up

click device and there's an option to lock screen. if you press and hold it will even allow you to power off (you'll have to plug the phone into a charger to switch it back on though).

to get rid of the white dot you triple click home again

basically it'll give you back the power button functionality but it isn't a true fix.

what model is it btw?

might help in the short-term.