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Why Apple Removed The Home Button
When the iPhone X was released back in 2017, Apple officially dropped the home button in favor of something called gesture-based navigation. Now since then, they’ve still included home buttons on ...
The home button for a long time had been the way to easily go back to your home screen from anywhere on your phone, whether you're sending a text in the Messages app or scrolling through Instagram ...
The Home button wasn't totally eliminated, of course—along with the iPhone X, Apple released the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which included the same capacitive Home button as the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
So it's official: Seven years after forcing us to reckon with the loss of the iPhone's home button, physical buttons are not only back on the iPhone, but increasing in number. Some Android phones ...
In contrast, the earliest model without the Home button, the iPhone X, had an all-screen OLED Multi-Touch display that was 5.8 inches, and this trend hasn't stopped since.
And with the 9th-gen iPad discontinued earlier this year, this would represent the end of the Home button that was once such an iconic element of Apple’s mobile products.
If there’s one issue I have with the Apple TV, it’s that the remote doesn’t have a dedicated Home button. If you want to return to the Home Screen, you have to repeatedly hit the Back button (or hold ...