The home button for a long time had been the way to easily go back to your home screen from anywhere on your phone, whether you're sending a text in the Messages app or scrolling through Instagram.

Note that the 2020 and 2018 iPad Pro models are also bereft of Home buttons, and follow a similar set of gestures. You can learn about them in How to use the iPad Pro with no Home button. How to ...

Finally, go back to AssistiveTouch settings, tap on “Idle Opacity” and put it at 20 percent so the virtual button won’t be a distraction when it’s not being used.

The Pre’s home button (left) and the button-less Pre 2 (right). Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The original Pre, launched in 2009, may not have seemed like the harbinger of home button doom.