It is known very well that the main button of the Apple iPhone 7 and
iPhone 7 Plus has ceased to be “mechanical” and became basically a screen with
a technology Taptic engine, or rather, there is now a haptic vibration
technology that gives the feeling to the user that you are receiving a
mechanical feedback of a button.
What
If Your iPhone 7’s Home Button Fails?
Have
you ever imagined that what will you do if your iPhone 7’s capacitive home
button fails? As it is known the main button of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
has ceased to be “mechanical” and became basically a screen with a technology
Taptic engine, or rather, there is now a haptic vibration technology that gives
the feeling to the user that you are receiving a mechanical feedback of a
button.
Yes,
it is sure that the tech giant Apple knows that this system is not reliable and
can give, at some point, a misconception.
Hence,
this subject is not exactly new (not even the problem reported a few days ago)
but brings a considerable amount of additional information. Apple is providing
the iPhone with sensitive technology, leaving its mechanical parts and
replacing with genuine and simple electronics.
But
will it work with the senses of the human body? Apparently, it works very well
and is being extended devices to receive such technology. Since the
smartwatches to iPhones, this is a technology that is made simply to stay.
First
of all, what it means to have a haptic motor?
Browsing
the web information source, it is easy to see that the haptic adjective means
“relative to the touch” is synonymous with touch, so the introduction of this
mechanism means to imply the “sensors” of the human body that “button” plays a
tactile action which is very sensitive to the touch. The engine that Apple
introduced on the iPhone 6S, to simulate the impact of click on the screen and
have a new dimension of menus, called 3D Touch, changed the mechanical habit to
a different reality based on perception.
With
the introduction of the iPhone 7, Apple ended the mechanism click mechanically
simply by replacing it with a solid button, pressure sensitive, using such
Taptic engine.
The
program that controls the engine and produces this haptic feeling which is
deeply involved in iOS 10, such that the iPhone 7 is able to automatically
offer a temporary solution when its diagnostic software detects that the
technology showing some major problems.
According
to the available information given by the MacRumors forum member who shared an
image that shows on the screen of an iPhone 7, the name of a resource to use
the main button on the screen itself, since the device paid problems. These
emerged after the iPhone has been switched off by himself when he was carrying,
and the haptic mechanism started to malfunctioning.
This
information is now circulating which can easily tell us that Apple is
“defending” some problems that happen, especially when the iPhone has those
“sporadic freezes” and that time we use to click the Home button which had
basically solve that issue. Now with a “Virtual Button” it may be possible to
replace the solution with another virtual, on-screen button (an option that
already existed in the Accessibility options.
May
this button become a problem?
Apple
says no, that the error rate of this button is lower than the mechanical,
however, as mentioned above, this is totally dependent on the software. This is
no more than a “screen” with the button format and Apple may have the same in
the iconic iPhone 8 as well, which will come out on the tenth anniversary of
Apple.
There
are still millions of Apple smartphones around the world in need of replacing
the Home button as we knew, but certainly, the repair of the iPhone 7 will have
a new course, new methods and probably fewer parts that can malfunction.
Despite the fact that a
virtual “button” is an area of great concentration of movements. If damaged,
then what the repair will cost? As for now, we don’t know the exact solution,
so, currently, we have no choice either to keep patience.
