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iPhone 15 Pro Leak Reveals Unified Volume Button and Mute Button
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Who knows it might pack an extra feature being a button. Like double click to activate a preset Focus mode. I wouldn't mind.
You can mute it in software, if the switch is un-muted, but you can’t unmute the switch if the switch is muted. People would be very upset if they went to a funeral, made sure switch was muted, but then a phone call came in, playing ”Another one bites the dust” because that’s a great ring tone.
Weird that it still comes with a sim slot. I can see the sentiment of some people still thinking they need this but for the bulk of the Pro users this is likely a non-requirement as you can simply activate multiple eSims.
The true nature of these buttons can only be revealed when wearing Apple's new AR/VR glasses. You'll need both devices to have the full experience.
I think SIM slot is expected.
Apple can wrangle U.S. carriers to inject Apple into their revenue stream by forcing eSIM, but they don't have that power globally.
From a practical and privacy standpoint, physical SIMs are far more globally adopted. You can buy a SIM card with cash with no identification.
Would assume the new "button" would simply provide haptic feedback like the switch does now.
And I just tried and found it impossible to flip the switch by just reaching in my pocket. Had to take the phone out and like always, use my finger nail to flip it (iPhone 12 Pro).
Always thought that actual mute switch was one of the smartest Apple interface detail, as well as the mag-safe. Now, mag-safe come back, what do we have to expect? that within 6 years they will come back to mute switch after a sad and useless transition to mute button? mah. These are signs that design is not at priority as it was before.
In EU, all carriers offer esim at no extra cost. Has nothing to do with Apple, same for Android phones. And most countries meanwhile require SIM card registration: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-registration-laws/
Because the iPhone is physically in silent mode. You can’t cancel control a physical switch from another deviceWhy couldn't they theoretically do that with a physical switch?
Blind person here, we’re not dumb and will quickly adapt to switch now equals button, just like everyone else.
In the same way we adapted to the home button going bybye, an objectively much more disruptive (but necessary)change.
Personally, my switch is already deeply recessed due to the case I’m using, so all the “well I just no because I can feel it” people sound ridiculous to me.
Especially when theoretically, this would allow for “mute” to be a focus mode that can automatically adjust when you leave or arrive somewhere.
This will actually make it easier believe it or not
This has nothing to do with haptics. Instead of being physical buttons, the buttons will reportedly be capacitive surfaces, which do not necessarily require skin to touch the surface to register a touch. Most modern touchscreens work this way, and accordingly many gloves now include conductive material at the fingertips to allow the use of touchscreen devices while wearing them. That is, electric current is able to pass through the surface of the glove much like your bare finger, since that's all that capacitive touch cares about.
While there should be almost no reason why a solid-state, capacitive button would physically stop working out of nowhere...the battery in the iPhone still exists and works regardless of whether iOS is booted. Presumably the buttons will operate on some separate internal subsystem, or else there'd be no way to hard-reboot the iPhone if the operating system becomes unresponsive. User experience concerns aside, that's exactly how the Touch Bar works — it runs on its own chip and OS, in fact.
The battery power required to operate these haptics is fairly minimal, so even when the battery is too low for the device to boot iOS (that is, when the device shuts down and only the low-battery icon appears), they could presumably still operate the haptics for the buttons (think Express Mode "power reserve" in Wallet) until the battery is almost fully exhausted.
But then you still feel the need to add a third product line on the top end that needs some kind of differentiation, if rumors are true.
Never understood the switch.
I am all in for haptic buttons for volume.
Probably most of the users (including my partner) use the port on a daily basis for charging, there are a ton of peripherals and apple takes $$$ on that too.
But i can absolutely live with a iphone without a port, since i bought my 11 i plugged the thing and charged only wireless. And the same goes for my 12 mini for 2 years now, magsafe charger, magsafe powerbank... happy with that.
Improve wireless charging, make it more efficient and bring it on!
I am all in for haptic buttons for volume.
Probably most of the users (including my partner) use the port on a daily basis for charging, there are a ton of peripherals and apple takes $$$ on that too.
But i can absolutely live with a iphone without a port, since i bought my 11 i plugged the thing and charged only wireless. And the same goes for my 12 mini for 2 years now, magsafe charger, magsafe powerbank... happy with that.
Improve wireless charging, make it more efficient and bring it on!
The usual leakers are having a fit over these leaks, they claim its wrong and not the same as what they've seen but then they won't show anything.
All these leakers are annoying and fame hungry, Gurman and Prosser have started this garbage.
All these leakers are annoying and fame hungry, Gurman and Prosser have started this garbage.
With the physical switch you can feel its position, no need to toggle it to check its state. Maybe the haptic switch will vibrate once for off and twice for on (or short and long), but this is still more fiddly because you may have to toggle it twice and have to count the vibrations (or decide whether it was short or long). It also doesn’t solve the issue of accidentally toggling it without noticing.
The mute button is actually great. One of the best things about iPhone is that one can silence all notifications without using the screen.
I‘m done with spending money on smartphones - I use em for lots of different things and life would be different without em. But thatˋs it. A holographic display would open my wallet.
The 15pro is a nice update and I guess I‘ll get one as soon as my iP11pro has a serious breakdown or is destroyed. And than the plan is to get a used one in mint condition for maybe 2/3 of the price.
The 15pro is a nice update and I guess I‘ll get one as soon as my iP11pro has a serious breakdown or is destroyed. And than the plan is to get a used one in mint condition for maybe 2/3 of the price.
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The mute switch has kind of been a joke for ages now thanks to advertising.
Nothing like having the mute switch on and then an ad has an embedded video that blasts some garbage at volume 11.
I make sure I have mute plus volume all the way down most of the time. Turn it up when needed then turn it right back down.
Nothing like having the mute switch on and then an ad has an embedded video that blasts some garbage at volume 11.
I make sure I have mute plus volume all the way down most of the time. Turn it up when needed then turn it right back down.
If tru @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 these are too recessed for use with case I never use my iPhones without case. I say no