You might think the home button is an indispensable feature of any iPhone; a port in the storm whenever you're caught between apps, your device is on standby or Safari is playing up.
But not so, it seems, as reports suggest its days could be numbered. Apple is believed to be working on technology that will render the home button redundant and eventually see it disappear from your handsets.
Not just yet perhaps, but certainly in the years to come. Scary stuff for many iPhone users.
For a while, it seemed the addition of a Touch ID fingerprint scanner had only heightened the importance of the home button, by giving it additional security functionality.
But Digitimes doesn't seem to think so. The Taiwan-based news provider says Apple is developing touch and display driver integration single-chip solutions for its iPhones, which will come with integrated fingerprint sensors.
