Apple's most affordable phone comes with a physical home button that's got a few tricks up its sleeve. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many of its earlier models, Apple launched iPads with physical Home buttons located below their screens. Initially, they were primarily used for navigation, such as a way to return to the home ...

Apple made one big change to the iPhone X. In an effort to make the phone's screen span edge-to-edge, Apple has eliminated the home button that has graced every other iPhone since it was invented.

This week the folks at Apple revealed a new kind of home button for the iPhone 7, one that no longer clicks. This is a non-moving home button for the iPhone 7 – making use of the device's built-in ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Using the iPhone X means relearning almost everything you knew about navigating in iOS. That’s because Apple removed the Home button, replacing that nice tactile input with a bunch of new swipes and ...

Is the lack of a Home button on the iPhone X driving you crazy? Can you simply not get on board with the "swipe from the bottom" crowd? Well I've got good news and bad news for you. The good news is ...

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, ...

Apple just unveiled the future of the iPhone—the iPhone X. And while it has all sorts of fancy features (like four-digit price point), it's the edge-to-edge OLED display that'll likely catch your eye.

In the beginning, nobody knew how to use an iPhone. That informed everything about the device's design: The green felt in Game Center communicated fun and gambling, the messily ripped paper at the top ...