The iPhone X Literally Changed How We Use Our Devices
Welcome to a new series called Apple a Day, where sites in the CNET family are sharing pieces of Apple content from our archives—an article, review and/or video—daily from now through late September. In addition to Lifehacker, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites PCMag, Mashable, CNET, and Popular Science.By 2017, some of us had been using iPhones for 10 years—a whole decade building muscle memory, all of it based around the Home button. Press once to go home; press twice to open the app switcher; long-press to call up Siri; press in tandem with the power button to take a screenshot: These actions became so innate, you didn't think twice about using them—at least, not until the Home button disappeared.
- ▪Welcome to a new series called Apple a Day, where sites in the CNET family are sharing pieces of Apple content from our archives—an article, review and/or video—daily from now through late September.
- ▪In addition to Lifehacker, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites PCMag, Mashable, CNET, and Popular Science.By 2017, some of us had been using iPhones for 10 years—a whole decade building muscle memory, all of it based arou
- ▪Press once to go home; press twice to open the app switcher; long-press to call up Siri; press in tandem with the power button to take a screenshot: These actions became so innate, you didn't think twice about using them—at least, not until
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| Original publisher | Lifehacker |
| Canonical URL | https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-iphone-x-changed-how-we-use-our-devices?utm_medium=RSS |
| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-14T13:11:51.877Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-14T13:11:51.877Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IdtkTUVvb-YK · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Welcome to a new series called Apple a Day, where sites in the CNET family are sharing pieces of Apple content from our archives—an article, review and/or video—daily from now through late September. In addition to Lifehacker, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites PCMag, Mashable, CNET, and Popular Science.By 2017, some of us had been using iPhones for 10 years—a whole decade building muscle memory, all of it based around the Home button. Press once to go home; press twice to open the app switcher; long-press to call up Siri; press in tandem with the power button to take a screenshot: These actions became so innate, you didn't think twice about using them—at least, not until the Home button disappeared.
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