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.

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 ...

With the introduction of the iPhone 7, Apple did away with the classic click-mechanism home button in favor of a "solid-state" pressure sensitive one that uses haptic feedback to mimic traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's final iPhone with a home button may finally be getting an upgrade. The iPhone SE, Apple's lowest-price iPhone at $429, is expected to get an upgrade in the next year, and it'll likely look ...

In a Medium post on Wednesday, the respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple no longer plans to use a solid-state button design on the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. However, a later report refuted ...