Independent developer Steve Troughton-Smith (Steve Troughton-Smith) found in the firmware of the HomePod column the description of the principle of the virtual Home button. He wrote about this on his Twitter page.

According to him, the button will be able to change its size depending on the running application, and when watching movies it will disappear from the screen. On the left and right sides of it will be located function keys. Trouton-Smith also said that the user and developers can not change the color of the virtual button.

One of the first about the appearance of a virtual button Home in iPhone 8, said an analyst at KGI Securities Min-Chi Go earlier this year.

According to him, the display will be divided into two parts, one of which will be the Home button and other keys. However, the confirmation of this information appeared only now.

IPhone 8 will be announced at the annual presentation of Apple in the fall of 2017. According to rumors, he will receive a frameless display, at the top of which there will be a slot for a speaker, sensors and a camera. It is also believed that the device will lose the fingerprint scanner and instead of it the smartphone will receive a face scanner.