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Apple Offers a Temporary Workaround if the Home Button Fails on an iPhone 7
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Yeah, pretty much the same thing. Time will tell if the 3D Touch button has a higher fail rate than the tactile one.
I'm not sure this is correct.
If you read the original thread where the problem was first identified, iwayne says the haptic feedback 'spazzed out' and fired off three or four times when the button was pressed once. Subsequently the button failed to work at all. (although apparently now it's working again, but that's by the by). Doesn't this suggest there's a one-to-one correspondence between a properly functioning Taptic Engine and a working home button? Otherwise I don't understand why the prompt would have appeared in the first place. I mean, if the pressure sensor just flat out failed, how would the diagnostic even know if the user had pressed it? Pretty sure this indicates a tight non-modular integration between the two components of the system.
This is beyond earlier accessibility features. No other iPhone model automatically raises the alarm when the home button cocks up and provides a temporary onscreen solution.
In addition to your comment, if the home button were to fail, at Least this alternative home button function would work until your in a position to have it replaced or repaired at your convenience. Nicely executed on Apple's behalf.
I agree! It looks like only 70 million people will have bought one by the end of Christmas, and only about 200 million or so in its first year of sale. Epic fail Apple! The.Worst.iPhone. Ever. and the people know it!!!!!!!! Your crummy capacitive touch home button can't fool the rest of us!
A phone is not a car and not meant to be repaired as such.
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As compared to the success of the Samsung Galaxy note 7? /hyperbole
Oh, gotcha.
Misunderstood here as well.
(by which I do NOT mean I misunderstood obviously... merely that many others misunderstood).
=P
FWIW, on all the devices I've owned that have on-screen buttons, I've never had them not work.
I knew this would be a problem. It's the main reason I didn't update to iOS 10 on my iPads. I kind of want them to keep the classic home button for the iPads, as they are my work machines and I can't afford a home button issues.
Kallum.
Kallum.
Your iPads having a physical home button has nothing to do with what this article is about. The iPhone 7 does not have a physical home button and uses a Taptic Engine to simulate the feedback of s button press. Besides the iPads do not have a Taptic Engine yet which is what the article is directly addessing.
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Thanks! As I wrote, I had never heard of that! You really do learn something new everyday!
To make matters worse and maybe why this is such a persistent myth, smart phone vendors set up the accessibility on screen Home button when setting up a new phone for customers.
I'm not even sure if the iPhone 7's 3D Touch Home button will stop it since people are so used to the virtual button. If the iPhone 8 has an on screen Home button, that might finally do it.
Spot on. The new home button may be something I get used to, but inevitably it will fail more often than the mechanical one. With the occasional touch disease on my 6+ it's the only thing that works at times, short of the lock button.
Often not good to be an early adopter as the first versions usually have issues which can only be found once in users hands- yes they would test but usually things you haven't thought of slip through- a few months to get a product with all the field issues sorted
I like the new button, it's cool and seems to be more durable but need to mention I had every single iPhone every year since 2007, never had a problem with any physical home button before
The problem is there is still a "moving part". Instead of a home button that depresses, you feel movement of the Taptic Engine. That's not software you feel moving in there.
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I find that odd. I've owned an iPhone for over 8 years and never have had a home button fail, nor have I known anyone whose button failed.
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I think you really need to re-read what you wrote here...and think about it.
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It's probably like how your great grandmother born in the 30's use to cover her sofa in plastic.
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I agree with ya, the first edge to edge iPhone8 will be pure experimental, then they will fix all the bugs on new version and release it.
Think about how you wrote your response, you stated "plenty of issues here as well."