Why did Apple remove the home button?
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According to the report, Apple is ditching the button to make room for a larger screen in one version of the next iPhone. The home button has been a staple in iPhone design since the beginning. It’s used to wake a device, return to the app grid, and, more recently, for Touch ID fingerprint recognition.
If you are realy missing the Home button, note that it’s possible to get the 12, 11- and X-series iPhones to display an onscreen Home button. This is activated via the Accessibility section of the Settings app: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch then turn on AssistiveTouch.
The iPhone X ushers in a major change to the way we interact with our devices due to the lack of a Home button. In order to accommodate an almost bezel-free display, Apple eschewed the Home button and replaced its functionality with several new Screen Edge Gestures.
Will Apple make another iPhone with a home button?
2022 iPhone SE: Design and display However, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple plans to move ahead with another SE model to feature the 4.7-inch LCD display, a Home button with Touch ID, and no Face ID. Apple is also said to be working on an updated version of the iPhone 11, which features a 6.1-inch LCD and Face ID.
Do you miss the home button on iPhone?
Apple’s introduced the latest of it’s line up of iPhones with no Home button. The iPhone 12 series joins the iPhone 11 series, and the iPhone XR, XS and X with a full screen front and Face ID. For those people who have a new iPhone and are missing the Home button that they were used to, we can let you into a secret.
In 2016, Apple released the iPhone 7, which replaced the home button with an unmoving, solid circle that wasn’t really a button at all. Thanks to a new haptic feedback engine, users could still “press” on the home button area and feel a fake click, but the “button” didn’t move.
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus These two handsets were launched in 2017 and had the honor of being the last iPhones to carry the Home Button and the embedded Touch ID sensor.