iPhones' traditional home buttons have been one of Apple's known emblems on their products. The ergonomically shaped button has been replicated in almost everything that Apple owns, including their elevators. On iPhones, the button plays lots of roles including fingerprint sensing as well as acting as a point of reference for users to navigate through the phone.

However, analysts in the tech world have been quite hysterical about this traditional button, with some explaining how this button takes up lots of valuable space on an iPhone's screen.

With regard to this, there is a likelihood that the iPhone 8 won't come with its prominent home button, but instead, it will present itself with a fully operational Function bar. As Science Times published, the function bar will be ideal for this particular iPhone because it's expected that the iPhone 8 will be exceptionally slim; slimmer than anything in the market today.

The fact that Apple plans to feature a 5.8-inch O-LED screen on the iPhone 8 is also a bonus for the phone. Without a home button, the screen will give the user that 'big phone feel', not to mention a better experience while gaming or watching movies on the phone.

According to Apple Insider, the home button will be replaced with virtual buttons or what KGI Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo refers to as a Function area. In his predictions, the analyst claimed that elimination of the touch ID from the iPhone 8's front screen would mean that Apple would have to integrate some other type of Biometric recognition system to take charge of the device's security.

Although Kuo never predicted the type of biometric system that will be used in the iPhone 8, he still remained hopeful that Apple won't compromise the security of this phone just to maintain the aesthetics. Luckily, Apple's recent acquisition of patents to a certain touch-supportive micro-LED display somewhat shows some light in attaching a touch ID system on the iPhone 8.

Apple acquired a small company known as LuxVue that deals in developing OLED displays. This is probably where the company will be getting the touch ID supported displays for subsequent iPhones, including those for the iPhone 8.

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