IPhone 7 may see Force Touch replace the Home button

If you’ve been following Apple for a few years, you know that the company loves to remove buttons, ports and everything that sticks out. According to a new report from Mark Gurman, Apple plans to replace the good old physical home button with a pressure-sensitive button that provides haptic feedback. This change would remove a recurring point of failure for iPhone owners.The last time
i took the subway in Shanghai, many people couldn’t use the physical home button on their iPhones anymore. Instead, they were using AssistiveTouch, a virtual home button that you can trigger from the phone’s display.

Don’t forget that the home button is also in charge of scanning your fingerprints with Touch ID. Replacing the home button isn’t easy or cheap. If a third-party repair shop replaces your home button, you won’t be able to use Touch ID anymore and it weakens the security of your phone as the secure enclave is disabled.