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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of course, Apple may never use this new transforming home button in future devices. However, let’s hope they do, as it could significantly improve gaming controls on the iPhone and iPad.

First, move to a rigid slide mechanism instead of the spring and band one. Second, make the Gamevice Live app earn the dedicated button on the controller. Where to buy the Gamevice Flex ...

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 ...