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After replacing the battery and home button (successfully!) on my iPhone 8+, the assistive touch virtual button keeps turning itself on. I have turned off all the potential culprits in Accessibility to no avail. Does anyone have a solution? Has anyone regressed the iOS and gotten rid of it?
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Hi @laryball,
This question has been discussed at length over on the iPhone 7 device support pages. Since the 7, 7 plus, 8 and 8 plus phones all take the same button, it's definitely applicable.
SOLVED: home button replacement assistive touch won't go away - iPhone 7 - iFixit
While several workarounds were discussed, there were two solutions that came up in this question. The first was a specific brand of home button - JCID - that does not trigger the assistive touch. The second was that it appears to be related to an operating system update; it's unknown when it went into effect, but according to one user upgrading from 15.7.5 to 15.7.7 eliminated the problem for them.
Good luck; this still very much a live issue so let us know what you find and if one of those solutions works for you.
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I just realized I have an old IPhone 6 sitting around. I wonder if the home button would transplant "seamlessly" to the 8 plus? The 6 is stuck on ios 14.something so mayby the 3rd party button would not cause a problem.
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Lary
@laryball Sorry, no, the button from the 6 won't work on the later models. The 6 version is a mechanical button with a little clicker dome that physically makes contact to activate the button function.
As of the 7, Apple changed it to a capacitive sensor and now the click is actually provided by the taptic engine.
So all in all, completely different technology that's not going to switch over, sorry.
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