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iPhone 7 Home Button Requires Capacitive Touch to Work
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If you can use the touch screen then you could try enabling assistive touch. Then you will be able to work around the home button issue. Not the most elegant approach, but it is better than nothing.
At least I'll skip that workaround, I got more than my fair share of ridicule way back in the day with the Nokia N-Gage and sidetalking
This is a capacitative touch phone... With capacitative Touch ID... and you are shocked you need a free finger?????? That's been the case since touch ID came out
Just make sure to take your sunglasses off first.
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Yeah, this was to be expected.
The difference here is that before you could still get to your phone and operate it without taking your gloves off. With all previous TouchID iPhones the home button still operated even if fingerprint recognition was impossible. Naturally you won't get TouchID with touchscreen gloves on, but you'll get to the passcode prompt instead and passcode input works just fine. Also switching between apps or exiting them will be annoying if you need to take off your gloves all the time.
This isn't a big deal for people in areas where you can be outside with bare hands all year around, but in areas where gloves are needed for a considerable part of the year, this is quite a nuisance compared to all previous iPhones.
Healthcare providers often use their phones while wearing gloves to reference drug doses in emergency situations. Having to remove gloves to open the phone will delay things and make the process frustrating (do you want a frustrated doctor calculating your child's life saving medication?). Adding additional steps like swiping to the widgets and then getting to the passcode screen might make it ok, but just saying this IS an issue for some users.
*Heading off the replies before they come: yes we use our phones. No it's not feasible to memorize all the meds or conditions you might come across, and doing math when you're tired and fatigued is an awful idea that kills people. Yes we use our phones while wearing gloves. No the gloves aren't "contaminated" by the phone, exam gloves aren't sterile (they come from a box on the wall where anything can get to them). Gloves keep YOUR cooties off me, not the other way around. I keep MY cooties off you by washing my hands before and after I take care of you. I clean my phone off after using it for reference in an emergency.
TouchID has a passcode fallback, so as fingerprint recognition fails with touchscreen gloves on, you can still get to the passcode prompt with all pre-7 iPhones. Passcode prompt works with touchscreen gloves and after that you'll use the phone normally (including switching between apps) with your gloves on.
Why are you still referring to the home button as flush?!
I told you a long time before the iPhone 7 announcement that it wouldn't be flush, and now that it has been announced and released I thought there was no need to tell you. It's not flush.
I told you a long time before the iPhone 7 announcement that it wouldn't be flush, and now that it has been announced and released I thought there was no need to tell you. It's not flush.
Someone might already have said but you can use 3D Touch. Just press on the left side of the screen and swipe right to bring up apps
In two years, I can almost guarantee that you won't miss the headphone jack. Bluetooth headphones are superior and Apple knows this. By taking away the option of wired headphones, they force consumers and manufacturers to push the wireless headphone market into overdrive.
As for the home button, nothing actually changed in terms of functionality. Raise to wake means you can still access your lock screen (and there's also the same unlock button that has always existed). TouchID never worked unless you had a direct fingerprint to feed it, which left using the touchscreen to enter a passcode. Using the touchscreen requires the same conditions that the new home button requires.
I often use my iPhone 6 (iOS 9) with touchscreen compatible gloves on: tap home button, swipe to unlock, enter passcode, use the phone normally.
According to the article most touchscreen compatible gloves don't work with iPhone 7.
Maybe instead of "Designed in California" the next iPhone should be "Designed in Alaska".
According to the article most touchscreen compatible gloves don't work with iPhone 7.
Maybe instead of "Designed in California" the next iPhone should be "Designed in Alaska".
Why? The home button will work exactly as the touchscreen does. If someone is using a prosthetic that isn't compatible with the new home button, they're also using a prosthetic that isn't compatible with literally any iPhone ever.
Raise to wake gets you to the lock screen, from where you can't get anywhere as the home button doesn't register your gloved hand. With previous iPhones the home button works, and while TouchID wouldn't work indeed, you'd get to the fallback passcode screen that works just fine with touchscreen gloves. Same goes for operating the phone after the unlock, not getting your home button clicks registered makes switching between apps and exiting them unnecessarily difficult. As indicated in the article and many comments here, touchscreen gloves work elsewhere on the phone, but many of them won't trigger the new home button, and this is something that makes a crucial difference compared to previous iPhones.
True, and not just that. You still need skin contact to do any further stuff with your iPhone.
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You are not touching it at all. Remove the gloves if you want to touch it.
Is it possible to wake the screen with the gloves on by pressing the power button?
Can you 3D Touch the left edge of the screen with the latex gloves on to access multitasking and the Home screen?
