Is the Home Button flush with the phone?

[uncreativedan]

"I LOVE being able to find the keyboard by feel and not having to specifically look down at it every time."

A BlackBerry user, circa 2007

I think the difference here is the benefits of a virtual keyboard outweighed the drawback of no tactility. There are no functional benefits to making the home button flush, just a loss of accessibility... the home button as we know it, though.... Probably what they'd do is they'd make the entire bottom bezel area a force touch home button of some kind. Then the home "button" would be invisible but even more accessible (and you could do cool finger gestures and stuff).

 

[yomnym]

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I LOVED this home button "leak."

This would have been awesome, next gen for sure.

 

[decafjava]

I think the difference here is the benefits of a virtual keyboard outweighed the drawback of no tactility. There are no functional benefits to making the home button flush, just a loss of accessibility... the home button as we know it, though.... Probably what they'd do is they'd make the entire bottom bezel area a force touch home button of some kind. Then the home "button" would be invisible but even more accessible (and you could do cool finger gestures and stuff).

I wonder how Touch ID will be handled then?

 

[areyes163]

I haven't tried it yet on the iPhone but i have to believe it will be like the ones on the HTC 10 and One Plus 3. Both of those work fine and are much nicer than having a physical home button IMO.

 

[yomnym]

I wonder how Touch ID will be handled then?

If i recall correctly, I've read the whole screen will be touch ID. This is what they were "working" on.