Apple has resumed its efforts to upgrade the iPhone with a solid-state, haptic button, according to a tipster. The company’s initiative to replace the mechanical button on its smartphone can also be expanded to Apple Watch and iPad. In 2022, reports claimed that the first handset to facilitate the company’s hiptic button would be iPhone 15, but the company’s plans were given shelter due to manufacturing issues. The company’s previous iPhone model with a touch ID sensor is equipped with a hiptic home button.
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A tipster known as Instant Digital (translated from Chinese), a Weibo Post states that Apple is working on bringing a mustal button For its “entire product line”Leikar had earlier claimed that the company resumed work on its project Bongo initiative, and has now claimed that Apple is searching for the apart from the touch button on the iPad and Apple Watch.
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There are many advantages to bring solid state buttons in iPhone and other products, and most notable is a durability improvement – “button” has no moving parts. Another advantage is to find out the ability to find out when a solid-state button is firmly or lightly pressed, and accordingly performs different actions.
If the tipster claims are accurate, the company has resumed working on the haptic button for the iPhone, after months the project was allegedly given shelter due to production challenges. TF Securities International Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo first predicted that the iPhone 15 series would have upgraded buttons. Last year, the iPhone 16 was also given to come with these buttons.
While the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 16 did not come up with the Happy button, Digital immediately says that the delay was not due to manufacturing issues. Instead, according to the Apple Tipster, working on preventing contingency touch and offering a response provided by a physical button.
Apple has already added a Happy button to the old iPhone model, from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone SE (2022). These handsets shown a solid-state button that provided a touch reaction using a haptic engine inside the smartphone.
Even if the Apple manages to resolve the existing issues with the Haptic button, it is not clear that Apple plans to introduce these buttons on its smartphone. Users may have to wait for a few years, before the company touch the touch, solid-state buttons, the iPhone 18 or iPhone 19 series in 2026 or 2027.
