How to Get a Home Button on Your iPhone's Screen

• You can add a home button to your iPhone's screen by turning on the AssistiveTouch feature.
• To add the home button on-screen, turn on AssistiveTouch in your iPhone's Accessibility settings.   
• To use the home button, tap the AssistiveTouch button and then tap the home button in the pop-up.

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Apple has been trying to move users away from the home button for some time now.

In fact, the most recent iPhone models don't have a home button at all. But that doesn't mean you can't put a virtual home button on the screen.

Whether your iPhone lacks a button or you have an older iPhone and the home button no longer works reliably, you can put one on the screen with just a few taps.

Here's how to do it.

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How to get a home button on-screen on your iPhone

You can add a home button using an accessibility feature called AssistiveTouch. However, the way you do it is slightly different depending on your iOS version, and we'll highlight the differences where they occur. 

1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone.

2. Tap Accessibility on an iPhone running iOS 13, 14, and 15. On an iPhone running iOS 12 or earlier, tap General and then Accessibility.

3. Tap Touch.

4. Tap AssistiveTouch.

5. Tap the toggle for AssistiveTouch – it will go from having a gray background to a green one. The AssistiveTouch button should now appear on the screen.

Quick tip: You can also enable AssistiveTouch using Siri by unlocking your iPhone and saying, "Hey Siri, turn on assistive touch."

To use AssistiveTouch, tap the button that hovers on the screen. It should pop out into a button overlay menu with several buttons, including Home. Tapping Home has the same effect as pressing the home button on the phone.

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How to customize AssistiveTouch

You can customize this AssistiveTouch menu by adding, removing, or changing the buttons. If you delete all the buttons except one, the AssistiveTouch button can function as the home button with a single tap.

Quick tip: You can also reposition the AssistiveTouch button anywhere on the screen by dragging it where you'd like it to appear.

1. Open the AssistiveTouch settings and tap Customize Top Level Menu.

2. On the Customize Top Level Menu page, you can tap any button and change it to perform a different function.

3. If you only want to see the home button and want to get rid of the rest of the options, tap the minus sign until it only shows one icon.

4. Tap that remaining button and choose Home.

Quick tip: If you want to return the AssistiveTouch menu to its original overlay, tap the Reset button in the Custom Top Level Menu page.

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