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Another iOS 11 feature hints at no home button on the iPhone 8

iOS 11 beta 4 is now available to download, and we already showed you what to expect from the new release on top of the usual fixes and improvements that come with each new beta iteration. Included in the list of new iOS 11 capabilities is a feature that seems to indicate the iPhone 8 won’t lose the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, as some reports claim. But it does suggest the home button might be going away. Sure, you can use your passcode instead. And it’s likely it’ll support facial recognition on the iPhone. But the fact that Apple chose to feature Touch ID prominently inside the latest version of iOS 11 beta tells me that Touch ID is here to stay. Apple could replace the Touch ID icon on that screen with whatever it decides to call its facial recognition system in the iPhone 8. And the Touch ID lock screen UI could be restricted to devices that don’t have facial recognition support. But the simplest explanation is that Apple chose a common unlock feature across devices for th...