According to foreign technology media MacRumors, all four iPhone 16 models launched by Apple next year will be equipped with operation buttons.
According to reports, Apple will begin designing and planning operation buttons internally as early as 2021. In Apple’s planning, it plans to launch touch-sensitive volume and power buttons simultaneously.
In the iPhone 16 series launched next year, Apple plans to change the operation buttons from mechanical buttons to capacitive buttons and expand to provide more functions.
Code-named “Atlas,” Apple’s internal project to improve action buttons will feature buttons similar to the Touch ID Home button on older iPhone models, or the Force Touch trackpad on newer MacBooks.
Disclosed internal documents show that the updated operation buttons will be equipped with “force sensors” that can achieve different interactive functions by detecting different pressures, but the specific changes are currently unclear.
The source also confirmed that the designs and prototypes of Apple’s basic iPhone 16 are equipped with operation buttons, indicating that next year’s entire series will be equipped with operation buttons as standard.
Apple has also experimented with different sized action buttons, with some prototypes having action buttons that are larger than those currently on the iPhone 15 Pro and closer in size to the volume buttons.
It is learned from reports that the iPhone SE 5 will also use an “operation” button, which will completely eliminate the silent pick from Apple’s iPhone product line.
