Apple's home button died on Wednesday at the age of 18, surrounded by family and friends (including its partner, Touch ID). The home button, which launched on the original iPhone and later spread ...

Ever since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, the phone’s home button has been an iconic fixture. Every time you used an iPhone, pressing it represented a tiny ritual lasting less than a second ...

With iPhone 7, Apple updated its iconic home button from a mechanical push-button design to a solid-state sensor stack, meaning it requires direct contact with skin, or a capacitive glove, to operate.

But this year, Apple’s also selling the cheaper iPhone 8 and 7 with nearly as much horsepower and a design — complete with a trusty home button — you already know. Advertisement ...

Sources speaking to Bloomberg claim that a re-engineered version of the home button that responds to touch in different ways will appear on the front of the newest iPhone. Instead of a physical ...

Apple has a new patent application that describes a pop-up home button which can work as an analog joystick. The patent, uncovered by Patently Apple, TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo ...

An Apple patent spotted by Patently Apple shows a spring-loaded pop-up iPhone home button that acts as gaming joystick when in the raised position. Or, in patent language: An electronic device ...

In the past, the iPhone SE has offered up-to-date tech specs within an older design, and its appeal varied according to the precise age of that design: a chassis that will be 30 months old by next ...

Users can easily switch from the first to the second mode by pushing down the home button. A spring mechanism underneath the button will push the button out so that it pops out a few millimeters ...

If you have an iPhone 5 and think you might be having that issue, you can click here to see whether your phone would be eligible to have the button replaced. If you're eligible and live in the US ...

Before today's news of the home button's demise, the writing had been on the wall for a long time. The iPhone X (2017) was the first blow, with Apple describing the full-screen flagship as a ...