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Apple Offers a Temporary Workaround if the Home Button Fails on an iPhone 7
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I had a 2013 Ford that had a dash full off touch sensitive buttons... I can't tell you how many wrecks I nearly had... Ford allowed me to return the car because they failed so often. The next year, they replaced these silly little buttons with real buttons and knobs... The iPhone 7 is a test bed for a buttonless home button in the next phone. Hopefully, Apple will do a better job then Ford did!!!
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I don't have time for this nonsense, so happy I skipped the buggy iPhone 7Plus.
My reliable iPhone 6S Plus has never looked so good...
A common mistake made by people on these types of sites. They read some negative things or bugs that might be impacting next to nobody, but it gets reported on here and they attribute it to being a "buggy" phone launch. I've been on a 7 Plus since 5 days after launch and haven't had a single issue. The same can be said for everyone I know who has purchased a 7 Plus.
Anyone who skipped the 7 in hopes of a brand new completely overhauled iPhone next year that is here to complain about how so called "buggy" the 7 has been will certainly want to wait til 2018 to grab a new phone seeing that there are rarely more "buggy" products than brand new ones and I see no reason the 2017 model (assuming it actually happens) will be any different. Then again, I'm in the minority that believe the Macrumors world will be in shock next year at the announcement of the iPhone 7s and not some new hyped model.
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Not even close to as bad as Antennagate was with the iPhone 4, which was a real issue and not even as big of a deal as the whole Bendgate, which was a non-issue.
The Home "Button" has been ditched, it's no longer a button at all. If & when the separate home sensor is physically gone, the on-screen "alternate" method will be THE method.
The recovery method is already changed. Instead of home + sleep/wake, forced restart of iPhone 7 is volume down + sleep/wake http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201559
You really did; you said: "plenty of issues here as well".
To quote Mugatu from Zoolander- "I feel like I'm on crazy pills!".
Unless Apple has already built Touch ID into the screen (no), it will be a variant of the accessibility button. The point of the article is that the OS 'knows' there's a fault in the physical home button and compensates for the problem by modifying the system interface until it's been fixed.
It's quite Star Trekky if you think about it.
This is what I have been saying. The changes that happened to the 7 were done on purpose to prep for what Apple has in mind for the next redesigned phone. A redesign that happens in 2018 gives Apple a whole year and a half to fix issues before a new phone goes into production as opposed to the roughly 7-8 months they have if a new redesigned phone truly launches next year. The same thing can be said about 3D Touch. It was thrown on the 6s as a cool new feature, but anyone paying attention can see this is just more testing for when the phone will eventually need to rely on pressure sensitive touches to the screen as more than just an added feature.
Rushing things just for the 10th anniversary, especially after the disaster Samsung just had after rushing, seems unlike Apple and like an overall bad move.
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The 'I'm afraid to break the home button' is just groupthink. It honestly comes down to just that's how they like to use their phones. The think it's quicker and more efficient. They don't think about why they do it, only that they see other people use their phone that way so they do. There's absolutely no reason behind it other than: 'Isn't this the way you're suppose to use it?'
Or it could not. Extrapolation of one sample to a population of millions is no more than a wild guess, so statistically this one, single issue tells us nothing about the durability of the iPhone 7, even if it's only 2 months old. Multiple reports would be needed for that (think antennagate, Galaxy Note 7 fire issues, etc).
Also, when something breaks, user experience tends to be confusing. However, is better if you can at least acknowledge the problem and propose a solution (repair in Apple Store).
Apple still describes it as a button, and to everyone who uses it, it's still a button. Will you refuse to call it the "home button" when it's a virtual button on the screen?
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Somewhat related, somewhat random...
Anyone have an idea of what an iPhone production timeline looks like from concept to shipping product? 24 months? More? Less?
Some have suggested the 7 is an experimental device, implying Apple can learn form (say) how a solid state Home button functions under real-world conditions and apply those learnings to the 8. I'm curious if there is enough time to implement any 7 learnings into the 8. I imagine they have the 8 pretty set, as it relates to hardware design/function. But I could be wrong. I have no idea what a timeline for an iPhone looks like.
Coffee time.
Anyone have an idea of what an iPhone production timeline looks like from concept to shipping product? 24 months? More? Less?
Some have suggested the 7 is an experimental device, implying Apple can learn form (say) how a solid state Home button functions under real-world conditions and apply those learnings to the 8. I'm curious if there is enough time to implement any 7 learnings into the 8. I imagine they have the 8 pretty set, as it relates to hardware design/function. But I could be wrong. I have no idea what a timeline for an iPhone looks like.
Coffee time.
If they follow the pattern they have followed four times in the past then yes. However, if they can remove the headphone jack, a four-time pattern is surely not sacrosanct.
Most rumors have pointed to next year's iPhone being a major re-design. If those turn out to be true, it would be silly to name it 7S. I wouldn't be surprised if they named it something other than iPhone 8, but that's the working name that those who deal in iPhone rumors have given it.
Seems you're living futuristically in November! iPhone 7 is one month old, it was released exactly one month today.
The iOS alert is entirely confusing, it is completely vague:
The Home Button May Need Service.
In the meantime, you can use the onscreen Home button below.
OK
In the meantime, you can use the onscreen Home button below.
OK
Does it or doesn't it need to be serviced? Should the user take it in to store? Where is the button for "More details". Would be nice if Apple was clear and accurate about what needs to occur. This is a great example of a poor alert message. It's the kind of thing that suggests this iPhone 7 is beta technology, but give it a go anyway, see what happens. It's unresolved design, the kind we might see on Windows a decade ago.
If a redesigned phone gets launched next year, a big if in my opinion, I think it will be alongside a 7s. Possibly advertised as a "pro" type model since Apple loves that so much. Eventually that model would take over all the phones, but as an initial product I see that as making sense.
And? The total numbers are interesting not the time passed. Every hardware part can have a failure. It just happens in mass production. Aha, so in your user experience the user wouldn't get any information about his defect Home Button. He can just wonder what happened to his iPhone and why he can't use it anymore. Wow, that's an amazing user experience.
Seems you're living futuristically in November! iPhone 7 is one month old, it was released exactly one month today.
The iOS alert is entirely confusing, it is completely vague:
The Home Button May Need Service.
In the meantime, you can use the onscreen Home button below.
OK
Does it or doesn't it need to be serviced? Should the user take it in to store? Where is the button for "More details". Would be nice if Apple was clear and accurate about what needs to occur. This is a great example of a poor alert message. It's the kind of thing that suggests this iPhone 7 is beta technology, but give it a go anyway.
Or one could use common sense with the issue, just like any other MAY in life. If the weatherman says it may rain what do you do? In most MAY situations, you wait it out and then make judgement. If the home button still isn't working after a day or two, you take it in. If you look outside in the morning and it's raining you adjust what you wear, you don't pace around in the house confused because the weatherman only said it MAY rain. The failure to be able to process things on our own without step by step instructions is the same reason we have companies sued because they didn't tell someone the coffee they ordered was hot.
I have had situations with my iPhone 7 when it did not let me use Home Button at all. I could not "press" it but that happened when my fingers were either wet or dipped in some oil or skin fat or sweat (after workout).
I have tried to toggle home button other than using finger. Guess what. nothing happens, it only reacts to human skin that puts force.
I have tried to toggle home button other than using finger. Guess what. nothing happens, it only reacts to human skin that puts force.
People do not seem to be joining the dots. You are looking at a photo of the home button interface on the iPhone 8.