Get a Virtual Home Button on iPhone X in 3 Simple Steps

[kristine]

There’s no Home button on the iPhone X. This means you need to relearn more than a dozen new gestures. Maybe you don’t like some of them. If you’re looking for a stop gap, you’ll find the answer in AssistiveTouch.

Once AssistiveTouch is enabled and set up, you can assign 3D Touch and long press shortcuts to the floating on-screen button. And when you tap on it, several shortcuts will show up – including things like accessing Siri, App Switcher, taking a Screenshot and more.

The 3 steps to get a virtual Home button on your iPhone X are as follows:

Step 1: Enable AssistiveTouch
Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> AssistiveTouch and turn on the feature from the top. Now, you’ll see a floating home button. Frick it wherever you want.

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Step 2: Customize AssistiveTouch Menu

Tap on the Customize Top Level Menu. This will show you a wheel of options that show up when you press the AssistiveTouch button. You’ll find the usual suspects like Control Center, Siri, Home, and Notifications. You can add more icons here. Tap on an icon to switch its behavior. Consider adding features like Multitasking and Screenshot.

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Step 3: Customize Icon Actions

You can assign what happens when you single tap, double tap, long press and 3D Touch the AssistiveTouch icon.

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You can use put the four most important actions here and let go to the menu altogether. For example, a single press can take you Home, a double press can open Multitasking, Long press can open Control Center and 3D Touch can bring up Siri.