The days of failing home buttons on your iPhone could soon be over.
Corroborating previous rumors, Bloomberg reports the iPhone 7 will sport a new pressure-sensitive home button.
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The new button will not physically click, but will use haptic feedback technology — similar to the Force Touch and 3D Touch technology used in Apple’s new MacBook trackpads and the iPhone 6S — to simulate the feeling of a press.
There are several advantages to a capacitive home button. A touch-sensitive button that doesn’t actually depress when pressed is likely to have fewer mechanical parts, leading to a lower failure rate. This change could mean fewer people will fear mechanical breakdown, and thus won’t need to …
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