Rumours suggest iPhone 15 will switch to buttons that don’t move - Stuff

Apple’s iPhone 14 line-up has been retired for a portion now, and we’re starting to spot the rumour mill pump retired much astir the upcoming iPhone 15 series. One of the latest rumours suggests that Apple volition power to coagulated authorities buttons for the iPhone’s broadside buttons.

Solid authorities buttons are ones that don’t really move, similar the Home Button connected iPhone 7 onwards. Per the rumours, Apple volition opt for these buttons connected the iPhone 15 Pro (or Ultra) models. The regular models volition beryllium stuck with the modular buttons, unfortunately.

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These rumours travel from Apple leaker Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a alternatively bully estimation when it comes to leaks. When it comes to show accusation successful the past, Kuo was a coagulated way record. But this peculiar rumour has adjacent much gravitas to it, with Apple supplier Cirrus Logic mentioning coagulated authorities buttons featuring connected an upcoming device. While the change, of course, isn’t guaranteed, things enactment up alternatively nicely.

So, what does having coagulated authorities buttons really mean for the iPhone 15? Without having the country for buttons to move, the mechanisms volition instrumentality up little abstraction wrong the iPhone. It’s besides 1 little portion that could break, with the broadside buttons arsenic part of the Self Service Repair program. Plus, it’ll marque the instrumentality much water-resistant, with less openings for h2o to creep in. It’s unclear if Apple volition opt for immoderate further Haptic Engines, oregon instrumentality with the alternatively awesome set-up it already uses.

Other aboriginal iPhone 15 leaks suggest the instrumentality volition opt for a titanium decorativeness alternatively than glass, and volition beryllium much curved connected the rear similar iPhone 5C. We’re proceeding much astir the upcoming device, with immoderate rumours sounding much apt than others (we don’t expect an all-metal back). With the accustomed merchandise day of September, we’ve inactive got a portion for much accusation to travel to light. But truthful far, the iPhone 15 is looking similar a reasonably tasty upgrade.

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