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Rumor Has It Your Home Button Will Never Lag Again on the New iPhone 7

Aug 17 2016 - 2:45pm

If you have an iPhone, you've probably experienced the dreaded home button lag; sometimes it simply doesn't work. It seems that Apple has figured out the home button's inefficiency wasn't isolated to a few phones because new rumors suggest they're fixing the problem.

Bloomberg is reporting [1] that the new iPhone 7's home button will be replaced with a pressure-sensitive button; meaning instead of physically clicking the home button, it will simulate the click because of the sensors. The introduction of a pressure-sensitive home button also means fewer parts, and fewer parts that could fail — which is why our home buttons have the occasional failure.

The same report also repeated what we already suspected about the one of the new iPhones [2]: a dual-lens camera and the headphone jack's removal [3]. While the official announcement isn't until September [4], we can't help but hope this particular rumor is true!


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https://www.popsugar.com/tech/iPhone-7-Home-Button-Rumor-42186179