One of the principle upgrades we’re anticipating on the iPhone 16 line is a Capture button, which might be used to snap photographs and file movies. But that is reportedly a better button than most, with a capacitive design that additionally means that you can swipe throughout it to zoom the digital camera in or out.
It’s a design that might current an issue for case makers, because you’d assume it wouldn’t register swipes if lined. An apparent if inelegant answer is to have a cut-out for this key, in order that it’s not lined (and subsequently not protected) by the case, however Apple may need a greater answer.
According to leaker DuanRui posting on X (by way of 9to5Mac), Apple’s official circumstances for the iPhone 16 sequence can have an “built-in design” fairly than a cut-out. It’s not clear precisely what this design will probably be or how the capacitive features of the Capture button will work by means of it, however they declare that these features gained’t be affected.
据说，苹果 iPhone 16 系列官方保护壳，没有这个开孔，会做成一体式设计，还不会影响这颗电容式按键正常使用。 pic.twitter.com/uSkaQqwXFeSeptember 4, 2024
Third-party circumstances won’t be so fortunate
However, no matter this answer is it won’t be provided by third events, with early case leaks all displaying a cut-out for the Capture button.
Then once more, as soon as the iPhone 16 sequence has launched and Apple has proven how its case design works, maybe different manufacturers will imitate it.
This assumes after all that DuanRui is true, and as ever with leaks we’d take this with a pinch of salt. But we’ll discover out very quickly, because the iPhone 16 sequence – together with the iPhone 16 itself, the iPhone 16 Plus, the iPhone 16 Pro, and the iPhone 16 Pro Max – could be very seemingly launching on Monday, September 9.
We’ll be reporting dwell from the occasion, so head again to TechRadar then to study all the pieces there may be to know concerning the iPhones 16 sequence – and its official circumstances.
