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 ...

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.

(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" ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The iPhone 7 was finally announced and the rumors are true. No headphone jack here. Lightning port only. It'll be a bit of a change, one that will be annoying but survivable. But there's an even ...

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