The Home button on your iPhone has multiple purposes — unlocking your iPhone, bringing up the multitasking menu, returning to the home screen, invoking Siri, etc. Such frequent use can take a toll on ...

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 to ...

When the iPhone X was released back in 2017, Apple officially dropped the home button in favor of something called gesture-based navigation. Now since then, they’ve still included home buttons on ...

The physical home button is no more, but there's a workaround you can use on pretty much any iPhone. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and ...

(1) A button on a smartphone, tablet or other electronic device that takes the user to the start screen (home screen). The button may be physical hardware or displayed on the touchscreen ("virtual" ...

One of the newest features built into the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus is a touch-sensitive Home button with a taptic engine. The new "solid-state" Home button is supposed to be less likely to malfunction ...

Buttons are one of the most ephemeral parts of modern technology. A text file from a decade ago will still load the same, a dead console’s games can live on in emulators, and as the adage goes, ...