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Apple could ditch physical buttons on the iPhone 16

Apple could be achieving its ultimate dream of this year.  Economic Daily News claims that Apple placed an order with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering for which could ship with the iPhone 16 this year. The new capacitive button system is said to have to provide haptic feedback when pressing the new buttons. Rumours of a "buttonless design" for the iPhone surfaced in late 2022 when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that .  Speculations rose after to investors that the company was to "bring a new high-performance mixed-signal chip component to market in smartphones next year (2023)".  Haitong International Securities analyst Jeff Pu and MacRumors corroborated these claims by stating that and that . stating that there would be a new toggle in Settings to allow users to for different usage scenarios (e.g. with gloves or with a case). However, reports soon surfaced that and Cirrus Logic subsequently c . that the use of a titanium frame on the iPhone 15 Pro led to "high processing difficulty and significant design changes during development" which could have resulted in Apple ditching the plan at the last minute. Source: via