Locking an iPhone if button is broken?
It appears that if you go into Settings > General > Accessibility and enable Assistive Touch, a new transparent button appears on your iPhone. This button can be accessed all the time. It is overlayed over anything appearing on your phone. If you tap it, and then tap Device, one of the options is Lock Screen.
Instead of having the icon always be visible, you can go to the Triple-click Home setting under the Accessibility page and choose AssistiveTouch. This way you can easily show or hide the button with a triple-click of the home button!
If you go to:
- Settings
- General
- Accessibility
- Assistive Touch
It provides a transparent circle icon in which you can do many things, such as locking the screen, snapshots, home button, and much more! It worked great for me (my lock button broke as well).