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The reason why the Home button click doesn't feel like a real click. Here's why...

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humanresources

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When you depress the Home button it feels like your clicking the whole button of the screen right?

It's because you're holding the iPhone.
- you're feeling the vibration everywhere in your hands, it's no longer just your thumb

With the MacBook trackpad, it feels like a real click (because it's only your fingers), well if you put your iPhone on a solid surface, it feels like a real click as well. Change the Home button setting to 3. Try it out.
 
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bt231 said:
The new button may be the latest tech but it is not user friendly at all.
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It sucks, plain and simple. I'll give Apple till next year to revise and improve it for iPhone 8 or whatever they call that model.
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one5n1ne said:
Very true. Which is why I maxed out the feedback.
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I tried all three settings, the cheesy buzzing is very annoying.
 
Haha Wow, your right! It even works for the 3D touch app icons. Pretty interesting how our brain perceives things differently depending on simple changes.
 
I think I am the first person whom the new home button doesn't work for him. It Doesn't respond to my finger. I need to still physically press it. Am I doing something wrong?
 
Yaely said:
I think I am the first person whom the new home button doesn't work for him. It Doesn't respond to my finger. I need to still physically press it. Am I doing something wrong?
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You cannot physically press it, it doesn't move. You have to put pressure on the button to get the fake "click", you can't just rest your finger on it and get it.

If you want proof that it really doesn't move, power the phone down then try clicking it.
 
humanresources said:
When you depress the Home button it feels like your clicking the whole button of the screen right?

It's because you're holding the iPhone.
- you're feeling the vibration everywhere in your hands, it's no longer just your thumb

With the MacBook trackpad, it feels like a real click (because it's only your fingers), well if you put your iPhone on a solid surface, it feels like a real click as well. Change the Home button setting to 3. Try it out.
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It feels fine to me, took me all of 3 or 4 uses before it become "normal" to me. The only disappointment I have is you can't use it with gloves, so will have to take my gloves off to unlock my phone like in 2010.
 
Yaely said:
I think I am the first person whom the new home button doesn't work for him. It Doesn't respond to my finger. I need to still physically press it. Am I doing something wrong?
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Yea you are. You still need to press down but the change is how hard to press down. I got use to it quick and prefer this home button
 
Yaely said:
I think I am the first person whom the new home button doesn't work for him. It Doesn't respond to my finger. I need to still physically press it. Am I doing something wrong?
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no. that's the point. you push it just like a regular button. you can't just rest your finger on it if you have to click it. It is amazingly easy to adapt to.
 
hxlover904 said:
no. that's the point. you push it just like a regular button. you can't just rest your finger on it if you have to click it. It is amazingly easy to adapt to.
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Ok, now I see the difference. I thought that it became a touch button VS press.
So under settings, what are the 3 options you can choose? I tried the 3 and all feel the same...
 
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