IOS Xamarin forms button works in the simulator but will not work on the iphone

Question

I have a xamarin forms IOS app that runs great in the simulator but when installed on my iphone none of the buttons work. I have app center debugging in there so I can see it never even gets into the button logic. After reading some posts, I even pulled the button out and put it into a separate frame to ensure nothing was overlaying it, but that did nothing. I could really use some help.

Here is my xaml

Here is the ViewModel which contains the code for the button

    public Command AddCarData => new Command(() =>
    {
        Analytics.TrackEvent("Top of AddCarData. EntYear = " + EntYear + " EntName = " + EntName);

        bool errorFound = false;
        IsVisibleLabel = false;
        IsVisibleResults = false;
        if (EntYear == string.Empty || EntYear == null)
        {
            IsVisibleLabel = true;
            EntError = "You Must Enter Year";
            errorFound = true;
        }
        else if (!errorFound)
        {
            Regex regex = new Regex(@"^[1-9]\d{3,}$");
            Match match = regex.Match(EntYear);
            if (!match.Success && !errorFound)
            {
                IsVisibleLabel = true;
                EntError = "Year Must Be 4 Numbers";
                errorFound = true;
            }
            else if ((Convert.ToInt32(EntYear) < 1900) && !errorFound)
            {
                IsVisibleLabel = true;
                EntError = "You Must Enter a Car Name";
                errorFound = true;
            }
        }
        if (EntName == null && !errorFound)
        {
            IsVisibleLabel = true;
            EntError = "You Must Enter a Car Name";
            errorFound = true;
        }

        Analytics.TrackEvent("In AddCarData. errorFound = " + errorFound);

        if (!errorFound)
        {
            var isDefault = false;
            if (IsChecked)
            {
                isDefault = true;
            }
            else
            {
                isDefault = false;
            }
            MileageItemRepository repository = new MileageItemRepository();
            if (IsChecked)
            {
                var autoResults = repository.GetAuto2();
                foreach (var item in autoResults)
                {
                    if (item.IsDefault)
                    {
                        var resp = repository.UpdateAutoAsync(false, item.Id);
                    }
                }
                App.Current.Properties["processedChange"] = false;
            }
            AutoTableDefination data = new AutoTableDefination()
            {
                IsDefault = isDefault,
                CarYear = EntYear,
                CarDesc = EntName
            };

            int results = repository.AddAutoData(data).Result;

            Analytics.TrackEvent("In AddCarData Results from AddAutoData. results = " + results);

            if (results == 1)
            {
                IsVisibleResults = true;
                EntResults = "Entered Successfully";
                if (Convert.ToBoolean(App.Current.Properties["firstAutoEntered"]))
                {
                    App.Current.Properties["autoId"] = 1;
                    App.Current.Properties["firstAutoEntered"] = false;
                }

                var nav = MyNavigation.GetNavigation();
                nav.PushAsync(new UpdateCars());
            }
            else
            {
                IsVisibleResults = true;
                EntResults = "Error, Please Try Again";
            }
        }
    });

This is really perplexing so if anyone can help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer

I solved the situation by changing from a command button click to just a regular click, ie. Clicked="AddCarData". I didn't do this originally as I could not figure out how to get the data in the view model since I was not going straight there, I was now going to the view code behind first. But I found some code that made that possible, here is the code I used.

void AddCarData(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
Button button = (Button)sender;
var imt = (Grid)button.Parent.Parent;
var c = (Entry)imt.Children[3];
var EntYear = c.Text;
var c2 = (Entry)imt.Children[5];
var EntName = c2.Text;

I used this code to get my data from the button, didn't know you could do that, but you can and it works

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