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 ...

For now, home-button aficionados can still purchase the iPhone 7 or iPhone 8. Apple has lowered the starting prices on those models to $449 and $599, respectively.

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.

The iPhone X arriving in stores Friday isn’t just a new design. It’s a new relationship. Compared to your current phone, the 10th-anniversary iPhone is missing a key element: the home button.

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 ...

Other patent details include the possibility of adding additional sensors to the home button mechanism, including a force sensor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a contact sensor, and optical ...

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 ...

News The iPhone SE 4 will bring back the notch, kill the Home button Yet more evidence that Apple's budget phone is headed in a radical direction.

A spring mechanism underneath the button will push the button out so that it pops out a few millimeters from the surface of the iPhone.

Today, the company announced that it is creating a formal program for replacing the power button on the iPhone 5, as it "has determined that the sleep/wake button mechanism on a small percentage ...

That version still used a mechanical spring mechanism. The Touch ID home button made its way to Apple's tablet with the iPad Air 2 the following year.