APPLE, fresh off the release of the iPhone 16, is preparing to announce a new low-end phone early next year alongside upgraded iPads. The company is nearing production of an updated iPhone SE – ...

There’s a new way to unlock an iPhone. Onstage today, Apple’s Phil Schiller unveiled the iPhone X, with one big surprise: no home button. Because of its edge-to-edge display, the iPhone has no ...

However, it’s an understatement and a half to suggest anything other than killing the Home button has been a long time coming. In 2017, the iPhone went properly all-screen. (Shh. Don’t mention the ...

Apple is indeed working on a radical iPhone redesign that will ditch the home button, AppleInsider has learned, but consumers shouldn't expect to see such a drastic change to the company's handset ...

Last year, it was the headphone jack. This year, itu2019s the Home button. Innovation requires sacrifices sometimes, and in Apple has sacrificed a lot.

An iPhone without any sort of home button — physical or virtual — will be too radical of a change for a certain segment of customers. For them, Apple will happily sell an "iPhone 7s," or an ...

Eventually, something had to change. 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 ...

Back in November, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he expects Apple to introduce a trio of new iPhone models in 2018, all of which will use screen gestures instead of a home button.

If Apple does get rid of the home button, it would open the door for the company to produce smaller, lighter devices with the exact same screen size as the current iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

Apple has been altering and perhaps preparing for the removal of the home button for years, sometimes out of sight. With the iPhone 5s, Apple added the TouchID fingerprint sensor to the home button.