The thin-bezel iPhone 8 is going to be unveiled in under two weeks, and will be the first iPhone not to feature a physical home button.  A report from Bloomberg provides fresh details on how Apple plans to replace the button with new gestures and navigational elements for the iPhone 8 user interface.

At the bottom of the screen, the display will show a ‘thin bar’ where a physical button normally resides. Users will be able to pull this bar upwards to unlock the phone. Inside an app, dragging upwards opens a redesigned multitasking experience. It sounds a lot like the new multitasking gestures for iPad we’ve seen in iOS 11 …

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