The continuing ‘will it / will not it‘ saga of the rumored solid-state quantity buttons on the iPhone 15 Professional is coming to an in depth. We’ve not too long ago heard, a number of instances from a number of sources, rumors about Apple canceling the mission and reverting to regular, clickable buttons on its next-gen gadgets.
At this time a brand new bit of knowledge nearly confirms that. Apple provider Cirrus Logic cannot simply disclose that Apple was its buyer for this tech, since confidentiality agreements forestall it from doing that. On the similar time, it must hold buyers knowledgeable of milestones or setbacks, and the latter is strictly what’s defined by the corporate in a brand new shareholder letter.
“A brand new product that we talked about in earlier shareholder letters as being scheduled for introduction this fall is now not anticipated to return to market as deliberate” is the precise quote from the letter, and the product in query was of the HPMS selection.
HPMS stands for “high-performance, mixed-signal”, a phase which, for Cirrus Logic, consists of the haptic drivers for Apple’s Taptic Engine in iPhones. If the introduction of solid-state buttons would not have been canceled by Apple, the iPhone 15 Professional would include two further Taptic Engines to offer the haptic suggestions for the fake buttons.
In a earlier shareholder letter, Cirrus Logic strongly hinted that it was the provider of those, with out saying it outright in fact. Apple is Cirrus Logic’s largest buyer, accounting for 78% of its income within the 2022 fiscal yr.
In keeping with long-time purveyor of Apple-related leaks and rumors Ming-chi Kuo, the iPhone 15 Professional will not have solid-state buttons in any case attributable to “unresolved technical points earlier than mass manufacturing”, no matter meaning.
Whereas the amount buttons will stay of the traditional selection, the iPhone 15 Professional remains to be anticipated to debut the Motion button to interchange the ring/mute swap. This Motion button will probably be totally customizable, as it’s within the Apple Watch Extremely.
Apple might not have given up on the concept of solid-state quantity buttons altogether, in response to analyst Jeff Pu, who thinks the corporate will merely push the introduction of the tech to subsequent yr and purpose to have it debut within the iPhone 16 Professional.
