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Pressing on: How Apple evolved and eliminated the iPhone’s home button over a decade

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/home-sunset.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600&h=900)</div><p>When the original iPhone was unveiled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN4U5FqrOdQ) in January 2007, Steve Jobs introduced its signature home button with a succinct pitch: “It takes you home from wherever you are. And that’s it.” Such a simple explanation seems striking today. Not only would the home button evolve into a Swiss Army Knife of functions, but it would become the iconic face of the iPhone itself, making it instantly recognizable even from a distance.</p>
<p>Ten years later, the home button has been put through its paces. It’s old, bloated with features, and taking up valuable space on devices with rapidly shrinking bezels (https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/05/10-5-inch-ipad-pro/). For the first time this fall, Apple will ship an iPhone without a home button at all — the iPhone X (https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-x/). How did we get here? Let’s take a look back at the home button’s winding history.</p>
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