The home button was paired with Touch ID beginning with 2013's iPhone 5s. Visually, it was marked by a surrounding metal ring, and the biometric sensors were housed under the button. That version ...

It was first introduced in the iPhone 5S Home Button, then later implemented in iPads and the Mac Magic Keyboard. It is still used as the exclusive form of biometrics on Macs, select iPad models ...

Touch ID is Apple’s fingerprint sensor built-in to the Home button that first debuted with the iPhone 5s. A year later Touch ID became an integral part of Apple Pay that launched just after the ...