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iPhone 7’s new Home button is rendered useless without skin contact, spelling trouble for winter

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<p>One of the changes with the iPhone 7 (https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/13/iphone-7-review-roundup/) that has earned mixed reactions thus far is the new Home button. No longer is the iPhone’s Home button an actual moving button. Instead, a Taptic Engine beneath the display (https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/15/ifixit-teardown-reveals-exactly-what-replaced-the-iphone-7s-headphone-jack/) provides the illusion that you’re pressing the button, even though there is no physical part being moved.</p>
<p>Adding fuel to people’s argument that the new “solid state” Home button is a move in the wrong direction, Myke Hurley (https://twitter.com/imyke/status/776916630643302402) made the discovery that the new Home button requires physical contact with your skin or a capacitive surface in order to function…</p>
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