Those of you with a buggy button on your iPhone 5 now have another year to get your phone repaired or replaced. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional.

If a third-party repair shop replaces your home button and you’re running iOS 9, Apple automatically bricks your phone. Once your iPhone is bricked, there’s no way to unbrick it.

Simon Chaput, founder and CEO of Boréas Technologies, is quick to point out that the smartphone industry has been stuck with the mechanical button paradigm since the first smartphones revolutionized ...

The button at the top of my iPhone 4s, commonly known as the lock button, power button, sleep button or off button, is broken. It doesn’t click at all. This can be really, really annoying because you ...

As the Apple iPhone 16 series reaches consumers’ hands, early impressions are pouring in, and they paint a mixed picture. While the phone’s performance is exceeding expectations in areas such as ...

Fixing any broken phone is a hassle, but if you have an iPhone, you really only have one safe option: repairing your device using an Apple-certified technician. It ain't cheap. You can take your ...

Many billions of mechanical buttons in cell phones, cars audio systems, notebooks, PCs, white goods, and industrial applications have been replaced with capacitive sensing buttons. The use of ...