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iPhone 8 With No Home Button: How the iPhone Experience Could Change

You may have heard this before, but 2017 will be the tenth anniversary of the original iPhone. You’ve been hearing about it since even before the launch of this year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, and many have prophesied that for the tenth anniversary, Apple intends to do something truly groundbreaking.
A new design is obvious, considering the present one has been in use for three generations now, with minor tweaks. Based on the rumours, iPhone 8 will have an edge-to-edge screen, and also ditch the home button - the most important way of interacting with an iPhone. The fact that this year’s iPhone models ditched the physical button with a haptic simulation of a button press, makes the rumour somewhat believable. But still, it will be a huge shift because the home button performs multiple functions today. Here’s a list of commonly-used tasks it does:
 1) Touch to unlock
2) Press once to exit from any app to the home screen
3) Press twice to bring up multitasking
4) Press-and-hold to bring up Siri
5) Tap twice to enable Reachability (on select iPhone models)

Since unlocking your phone is the first thing to do when you use an iPhone, let’s start with that. Many no-home-button rumours are often coupled with Apple integrating Touch ID directly into the screen. Signs towards making this happen are around; Qualcomm’s Sense ID is said to detect fingerprints through a variety of materials including glass, by using ultrasonic sounds. To be fair, we haven’t yet seen implementations of Sense ID literally working from beneath smartphone displays, and phones like the Xiaomi Mi5s or the LeEco Le Max 2 that employ the technology still have dedicated areas on the body to rest your finger.
The other way to unlock a phone without the need of a dedicated space would be using iris scanning - which the ill-fated Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and Microsoft Lumia 950XL employed. Iris scanners are different from facial recognition using the front camera; they work faster and even in dark environments, but the inconvenience being having to point the phone to your face to unlock.
Whichever route Apple takes, it is clear the home button won’t be missed to unlock an iPhone 8. I would put my money on the former than the latter; simply because iOS 10’s highly functional lock screen would become irrelevant if an iPhone just unlocked by looking at it.




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