Everyone who's used the iPhone for even just a few minutes knows that
the Home button, the only button on the iPhone's front, is crucial. But
relatively few people know just how many things the Home button can do —
and how to do those things on the iPhone models that don't have a Home
button.
Read on to learn all about the many uses of the iPhone Home button.
What the iPhone Home Button Is Used For
The Home button is used for all kinds of apps and actions including:
* Access Siri: Holding down the Home button will launch Siri.
* Multitasking: Double-clicking the Home button reveals all running
apps in the multitasking manager.
* Music App Controls: When the phone is locked and the Music app
plays, clicking the home button once will bring up the Music
app controls to adjust volume, change songs, and play or pause the
track.
* Camera: From the lock screen, a single press of the Home button and
a swipe from right to left launches the Camera app.
* Notification Center: From the lock screen, press the Home button and
swipe left to right to access Notification Center widgets.
* Accessibility Controls: By default, the Home button only responds to
single or double clicks. But a triple click can also trigger certain
actions. In order to configure what a triple click does, go to the
Settings app, then tap General > Accessibility > Accessibility
Shortcut. In that section, you can trigger the following actions
with a triple click:
* AssistiveTouch
* Classic Invert Colors
* Color Filters
* Reduce White Point
* VoiceOver
* Smart Invert Colors
* Switch Control
* VoiceOver
* Zoom.
* Dismiss Control Center: If Control Center is open, you can dismiss
it with a single click of the Home Button.
* Touch ID: On the iPhone 5S, 6 series, 6S series, 7 series, and 8
series the Home button adds another dimension: it's a fingerprint
scanner. Called Touch ID, this fingerprint scanner makes those
models more secure and is used to enter passcodes, and passwords for
purchases at the iTunes and App Stores, and with Apple Pay.
* Reachability: The iPhone 6 series and newer have a home-button
feature that no other iPhones have, called Reachability. Because
those phones have large screens, it can be hard to reach from one
side to the other when using the phone one-handed. Reachability
solves that problem by pulling the top of the screen down to the
center to make it easy to reach. Users can access Reachability by
double tapping (not clicking; just a light tap like tapping an icon)
the Home button.
iPhone X and Up: The End of the Home Button
While the iPhone 7 series delivered some big changes to the Home button,
the iPhone X removes the Home button completely. With the iPhone XS, XS
Max, and XR also lacking Home buttons, it's safe to say that the Home
button is on the way out. Here's how to perform tasks that used to
require the Home button on the iPhone X:
* Unlock the phone: You unlock the iPhone X using either the Face ID
facial recognition system or by entering an onscreen passcode after
waking the phone by raising it, tapping the screen, or clicking the
Side (aka sleep/wake) button.
* Return to home screen: To leave an app and return to the home
screen, swipe up from the bottom of the screen (Control Center is
now accessed by swiping down from the top right corner of the screen).
* Multitasking: To access the multitasking view of all open apps,
swipe up from the bottom like you're returning to the home screen,
but pause partway through the swipe.
* Siri: Instead of pressing and holding the Home button to launch
Siri, press and hold the Side button.
* Taking screenshots: The Home button is no longer involved in taking
screenshots. Instead, squeeze the Side button and volume up button
at the same time to capture a screenshot.
* Force restart: Force restarting the iPhone X requires more steps
now. Click the volume up button, then the volume down button, and
then press and hold the Side button until the iPhone restarts.
The Home Button on iPhone 7 and 8 Series
The iPhone 7 series phones changed the Home button dramatically. On
earlier models, the button was truly a button: something that moved when
you clicked it. On the iPhone 7 and then the 8 series, the Home button
is actually a solid, 3D Touch-enabled panel. When you press it, nothing
moves. Instead, like the 3D Touch screen, it detects the strength of
your press and responds accordingly. Because of this change, the iPhone
7 and 8 series has the following Home button options:
1. Rest Finger to Open: Earlier versions of the Touch ID-enabled Home
button let you rest your finger on the button to unlock the phone.
That changed with the 7 series, but you can restore that option by
going to Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button > and
moving the Rest Finger to Open slider to on/green.
2. Click Speed: Change the speed needed to double or triple click the
button in Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button.
3. Click Settings: Because the button is now 3D Touch-enabled, you can
choose the kind of click feedback you prefer by going to Settings >
General > Home Button.
Uses of the Home Button in Earlier Versions of the iOS
Earlier versions of the iOS used the Home button for different things —
and allowed users to configure the Home button with more options. These
options aren't available on later versions of the iOS.
* iOS 8: Double-tapping the Home button reveals not only the
multitasking manager, but some new contacts options, too. At the top
of the screen, icons show the people you have most recently called
or texted, as well as the people listed in your Phone app's
favorites menu, to quick contact. This was removed in iOS 9.
* iOS 4: This version of the iOS introduced double-clicking the button
to bring up the multitasking options. It also launched the
phone's Spotlight search tool with a single click from the home screen.
* iOS 3: Double-tapping the Home button in this version of the iOS was
a shortcut to the Favorites list in the Phone app. Alternatively,
you could change a setting to launch the Music app (then called
iPod) instead.
Cheers,
Marcio <https://tinyurl.com/TlkTM>
AKA /Starboy/
Sent from a galaxy far, far away.
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