Yes, iPhone 7 Home button works fine with capacitive glovesIf you want to use your iPhone 7 Home button with gloves on, just make sure they're capacitive — same as the ones you use for the screen.
There's a bit of a brouhaha happening right now over iPhone 7's Home button. Specifically, that it requires skin contact to activate, thus hampering it's ability to work in winter, maybe even if you're wearing capacitive gloves. Here's the deal:
Yes, the new Home button is capacitive. We've known that since the September 7 event. It uses the same ring as Touch ID to detect finger (or any capacitive) contact and turn on. That's to save power.
This has led some people to worry it won't be useful in winter, when they're wearing gloves. More to the point, there have been some claims that capacitive gloves, the kinds people have been wearing for years to use the iPhone screen in winter, somehow don't work with the new Home button.
It's always possible to miss the ring when you jab it with a capacitive glove, especially the dinky ones with capac...
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Yes, iPhone 7 Home button works fine with capacitive gloves
