Rumour: The 2017 iPhone Will Not Have a Home Button

[Maura]

9to5 Mac reports that according to a source familiar with Apple’s plans who was quoted in a Bloomberg article about a Japanese-specific iPhone model, the 2017 iPhone will not have a home button. This is something that was already the subject of an earlier article by the Wall Street Journal, and this latest report reiterates those rumours, saying that the 2017 iPhone will have a major redesign that includes removing the Home button in order to focus more on the display. The earlier Wall Street Journal report had said that the 2017 iPhone would have a single piece of glass covering its front.

Other reports this month have said that Apple is developing an all-glass casing for the 2017 iPhone, and it’s looking more and more likely that these are accurate reports.

And if recent rumours are anything to go by, it seems that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus could actually be the last iPhones to have a physical home button, as the iPhone 7 is expected to have a Force-Touch home button rather than a mechanical Home Button, much like the latest version of the 12-inch MacBook, which, by all accounts, works extremely well.

iPhone concept image: Miroslav Majdak

Source: Apple again said to remove Home button with iPhone coming in 2017