If a third-party repair shop replaces your home button and you’re running iOS 9, Apple automatically bricks your phone. Once your iPhone is bricked, there’s no way to unbrick it.

The iPhone X is the first iPhone to ditch the physical home button. But there is a way to simulate a home button using the iPhone's software. It's a bit of a hack, though, and we don't recommend it.

Our devices are an important part of daily life, so a shattered smartphone screen or a broken headphone jack needs to be fixed—the quicker and cheaper the better. But if you have an iPhone and don’t ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number US 11669171 B2) for “devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing a Home button replacement” on iPhones and iPads. Obviously, some electronic ...

Apple removed the physical Home button from its flagship iPhones years ago, but the core idea never really went away. Buried inside the Accessibility settings is a floating control that can behave ...

After testing some apps on an old iPhone 6 recently, I started to notice the device's Home button was becoming less and less responsive to finger presses, especially when it came to double-clicking it ...

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 ...

The iPhone’s home button could soon disappear — and could be replaced by a fingerprint scanner implemented into the device’s touchscreen. Apple has just been granted a patent for a virtual home button ...