How do i fix my ipad home button - iPad Apple Tablets & eReaders

Hi:

Try a hard reset. It forces your iPad to turn Off and then On.

Hard Reset Your iPad. A hard reset forces your iPad to abruptly turn off and back on, which will usually fix the problem if your iPad has frozen on the Apple logo. Press and hold the power button and the Home button simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Then, let go of both buttons.

In your case, you can still try some methods to fix it. Just follow below steps.

If you've neither synced with iTunes nor set up Find My iPhone in iCloud, you'll need to wipe your iPad to factory setting to remove the password, which means you'll suffer losing all your data on iPad and get it as a new one.
Please pay attention there is a slight difference in putting different models of iPad into recovery mode.
iPad Air

• 1. Turn off your iPad Air, press and hold the Home button.
• 2. While holding the Home key, connect the USB cable to the device. Wait until the Apple logo appears and keep holding the Home button for few more seconds.
• 3. Continue holding the Home button until the iTunes logo appears.

iPad mini/iPad pro

• 1. Connect your iPad to your computer or laptop and open iTunes.
• 2. While your device is connected, force to restart it.
• 3. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. Don't release when you see the Apple logo. Keep holding both buttons until you see the recovery mode screen.

Now you have entered the recovery mode, and

1. When you see the option to Restore and Update, click it.

2. Wait for the process to finish. Then you can set up and use your device.

For more methods, check: How to Unlock iPad?

To reset an iPad, press both the home button and the on / off button, till the iPad switches off. Then wait a minute or so (till the Apple loge is from the screen) then switch on again. Also delete all open apps, by pressing the home button twice and swipe all apps up. This will clear the memory and make the running app more reliable.

Not 100 percent if this works with iPads but ive done it on iphones and itouches before. hook it up to your itunes, hold the home and lock button for 10 seconds, release the lock button while continuing to hold the home button for another 8 seconds. On itunes it should come up "would you like to restore this ipad?" you click yes and it resets the entire tablet to factory settings.

(If that does not work then try this. hold home and lock for 10 sec, release home button while continuing to hold lock button for another 8 sec, itunes should pop up with the question "would you like to reset this tablet?" hit yes and it'll go back to factor settings). I couldnt remember exactly which way was the correct but either way wont damage the tablet at all. Youtube has a full demonstration of it.

It's actually very easy, once you know how to do it. Click and hold down the Sleep/Wake button (located on the upper-right corner of your iPad). While you're holding down the Sleep/Wake button, hold down the Home button as well (located on the front of your iPad at the bottom).
Hold down both buttons until your iPad powers off. It will reboot and start again with a small silver Apple image on the screen. It takes about 30 seconds for the iPad completely start up.

If you forgot iPad password, there still are several methods to unlock iPad. Here take one of them as an instance.

If you've neither synced with iTunes nor set up Find My iPhone in iCloud, you'll need to wipe your iPad to factory setting to remove the password, which means you'll suffer losing all your data on iPad and get it as a new one.
Please pay attention there is a slight difference in putting different models of iPad into recovery mode.
iPad Air

• 1. Turn off your iPad Air, press and hold the Home button.
• 2. While holding the Home key, connect the USB cable to the device. Wait until the Apple logo appears and keep holding the Home button for few more seconds.
• 3. Continue holding the Home button until the iTunes logo appears.

iPad mini/iPad pro

• 1. Connect your iPad to your computer or laptop and open iTunes.
• 2. While your device is connected, force to restart it.
• 3. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. Don't release when you see the Apple logo. Keep holding both buttons until you see the recovery mode screen.

Now you have entered the recovery mode, and

1. When you see the option to Restore and Update, click it.

2. Wait for the process to finish. Then you can set up and use your device.

For more methods, check: How to Unlock iPad?

This tutorial will explain how to force your iPad to restart if it gets stuck or freezes up.
Forcing your iPad to restart will not cause any loss of data - with the possible exception of any work you were doing at the time the iPad and/or App froze, forcing you to restart it.

Click and hold down the Sleep/Wake button (located on the upper-right corner of your iPad). While you're holding down the Sleep/Wake button, hold down the Home button as well (located on the front of your iPad at the bottom). Hold down both buttons until your iPad powers off. It will reboot and start again with a small silver Apple image on the screen. It takes about 30 seconds for the iPad completely start up.

Try connecting it to iTunes, turning off the ipad, then hold both the lock and the home button for 10 seconds, then relese the lock button while continuing to hold the home button until iTunes recognizes the iPad. Then you should be able to reset it without problem.

By holding the on switch button together with the home switch button for 15 sec.