News on January 13, according to the latest report from MacRumors, Apple has changed the button scheme on the current iPhone 16 Pro engineering machine.
In the latest version of the engineering machine, the operating buttons of the iPhone 16 Pro have been changed to capacitive buttons, canceling the physical button mode.
In fact, there was news in 2022 that Apple would use similar capacitive buttons on the iPhone 15 Pro, called "solid-state keys", similar to iPhone 7/8/ Pressure-sensitive home button on SE2 and other models.
Ming-Chi Kuo also predicted that in order to better simulate the feedback of the volume button and power button, the iPhone will add two Taptic Engine motors to the left and right sides of the fuselage, bringing the total to three.
In this way, "solid keys" can also achieve extremely realistic physical key feedback, making users feel as if they are pressing physical keys.
In fact, Apple has always been pursuing completely non-porous, and wants to completely eliminate openings such as interfaces and buttons.
At present, the process of eliminating buttons will obviously be faster than eliminating interfaces. If the iPhone 16 Pro is finally mass-produced and uses capacitive operation buttons, based on market feedback, the physical interface may be completely eliminated on the iPhone 17 Pro. button.
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