Do you have anything to back up your claim that physical buttons are less prone to failure than software ones? Apple engineers and managers certainly need your information as they must have somehow overlooked that fact and are blindly incorporating something that will prove to be a negative experience for their customers, resulting in fewer sales and less revenue and profits, as well higher warranty costs with even less revenue for them.
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Apple Offers a Temporary Workaround if the Home Button Fails on an iPhone 7
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Do you have anything to back up your claim that physical buttons are less prone to failure than software ones? Apple engineers and managers certainly need your information as they must have somehow overlooked that fact and are blindly incorporating something that will prove to be a negative experience for their customers, resulting in fewer sales and less revenue and profits, as well higher warranty costs with even less revenue for them.
Right now it serves as Touch ID. I think they are waiting until they can do cameras, ALS, speaker, and Touch ID under the display. Then we would get the edge to edge display without compromise. Which is the experience I want, a beautiful display with no cameras or speaker cutout, no Touch ID ring and no light sensors that are visible, which would mean no bezels. Apple has been positioning theirselves for giving us exactly what we have been asking for, people just can't wait.
Did I mention I want a new MacBook Pro? Lol
Work arounds are now official Apple policy since the removal of the universal headphone jack.
It's 100% better than the iOS 9 Music app in my opinion. Still a work in progress, to put it mildly.
*sigh* Anyone who has lived a relatively normal life outside of a bubble can tell you what f_cks up more: software or hardware, even or especially on non-computer products. It's new and it's exciting! I call it: life experience! ;-) Other than that, I got nuthin', so you win, I suppose. :-\
Yes, yes. Apple is the best. Apple can do no wrong. Whatever Apple does should be good enough for you, so shut yer trap, be a grateful little drone and keep shovelling your money to them. I get it.
Apple just running out of ideas for the iPhone. However I don't think there is much more you can do and we will just see incremental upgrades from all manufactures. They need to concentrate on the software more. Once upon a time that was a fundamental difference between Apple and others.
Not sure why people seem to think the home button is weak to be honest. I own a repair shop and repair hundreds, the only real home button failures I've seen is when it's been ripped off when the screens smashed..
Only seemed to be a massive problem in the iPhone 4/4's so not sure why people think it's across the whole iPhone range.
Only seemed to be a massive problem in the iPhone 4/4's so not sure why people think it's across the whole iPhone range.
i absolutely hate touch controls in the car. gf has a honda civic with touch buttons and there is so much lag on the volume control lol. drives me crazy
Something tells me you are one of these grieving about Note 7!
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According to rumors it will be a major residing so the "S" would not really be the right naming.
Taptic Engine is separate from the Home Button. Pressing it gives haptic feedback via Taptic Engine just like other actions also give haptic feedback. Home Button is pressure sensitive like 3D Touch. Basically failure of one does not mean failure of the other.
If you haven't already, I would still get it looked at by Apple. I bet if you called customer service and told them about this thread they would swap it out in a heartbeat.
Mine has been great so far and knowing accessibility allows me to keep the screen home button when I need it too for water proof cases etc...made me happy.
Also, how many threads have we seen about people worried their home button click wasn't just perfect...and what even constituted normal? I know I'm glad the new button isn't prone issues like the old one from when my kids use devices with sticky fingers.
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Yep probably? Oh wait...doubt it. I think it is pretty great so far. No problems here. My home button even works.
No this isn't about which type of button someone prefers, I was asking you to come forward because one of my roomies is a hardware engineer who designs items like hardware controls and he laughed at your contention that the failure rate of software controls is greater than the failure rate with mechanical buttons. Since he must be laughably wrong, and you obviously have important information unknown to him and the engineers at Apple, and the entire tech industry, you could be doing a tremendous service to the entire industry by enlightening them about their misunderstanding of this key aspect to their industry. You could correct, for example, Fujitsu, the 4th largest IT services company in the world and a major computer products manufacture falsely claimed in an industry white paper (that I found in a 30 second Google search that produced countless misinformed articles) they authored on the benefits of software versus mechanical controls that I :
- Durability: Touch elements do not contain moving parts like mechanical input devices. Thus no wearing out of these parts.
- Robust housing design: It is easier to design devices for rough environments. Compared to conventional solutions, no holes or other openings are necessary where humidity and dust could enter the device
Please get the truth out and save the industry from this fateful path they are on!
nevertheless, it is the way of the future.
i have a car with almost exclusively software/touchscreen buttons and they have consistently worked very reliably for several years. so, it's all in the programming. if you do it right, with failure mode compensation and redundant cores, it will work fine. my money is on apple, frankly. they know how to do this.
This actually has me really worried.
My 7 Plus *did* encounter a nasty freeze up last week for no apparent reason. Lasted for about two minutes, completely unresponsive, power button and all. Fortunately (after reading this) the Home button continues to work fine though.
Something like this better not require me having Apple Care if it does indeed happen. I, and I'm sure most people, wouldn't consider something like the Taptic Engine failing to be their fault. Especially after a month?
My 7 Plus *did* encounter a nasty freeze up last week for no apparent reason. Lasted for about two minutes, completely unresponsive, power button and all. Fortunately (after reading this) the Home button continues to work fine though.
Something like this better not require me having Apple Care if it does indeed happen. I, and I'm sure most people, wouldn't consider something like the Taptic Engine failing to be their fault. Especially after a month?