How to fix a stiff iPhone home button?

My iPhone 3G home button is stiff and has to apply pressure for it to work how can I fix this?

Take it to a repair shop, or as a free alternative you can go to settings and turn on assisitive touch, in the accessibility section

Use some rubbing alcohol and rub it on and around the home button.

You can also just go to settings > general > accessibility > and put AssistiveTouch on. It helps if your home button doesn't really work so well like mines kinda sunk in and has other stuff there too for adjesting volume, lock screen, rotate screen, etc

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