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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It may sound impossible to imagine an iPhone without a home button. But in some ways, Apple has been preparing users for this eventuality for years. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now ...

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, ...

Google Chrome is undeniably the most popular browser app on just about any platform. And that’s because it doesn’t quite function just like every other app in the segment. But that’s not always a good ...

(1) A button on a smartphone, tablet or other electronic device that takes the user to the start screen (home screen). The button may be physical hardware or displayed on the touchscreen ("virtual" ...