How to turn the fingerprint scanner on your Samsung Galaxy into a capacitive home button

Samsung has always had a hardware home key on its Android smartphones – ever since the very first Galaxy handset. In more recent years, the button has gotten its iconic elliptic shape and, in upper-tier smartphones, has become the home of a fingerprint sensor.

Other manufacturers experiment with other styles – some may rely on Android's software buttons, other place capacitive hardware keys, and there are those who experiment with more unorthodox ideas – like how the OnePlus 2 has its fingerprint sensor that doubles as a capacitive touch home button, which can also be programed to accept gestures for various quick launch actions.

If you've used a hardware home button for some time now, you may either long for, or wish to try out, how it would feel to have a capacitive key instead. No need to change your Samsung phone, however! If you own a Sammy handset with a fingerprint scanner – either of the 2014 swipe-to-scan or the 2015 touch-type variety – there is now an app that can cure some of that OnePlus 2 envy (yes, we are giggling). Check it out below!