An extra button for the iPhone 16 will reportedly force Apple to move the antenna (uh oh!)،
A tipster on the Chinese social networking site Weibo with the handle Instant digital (via MacRumors) says the Apple 16 series might have an extra button. To make room for this new button, the tipster says Apple will move the mmWave antenna from the right side of the device to the left. Yes, we don’t know how you’ll be able to handle this massive design change, but we’re sure you’ll be able to manage somehow.
The additional button is believed to be known at Apple as the capture button, although the exact function of this button is unclear. In other words, we have no idea what this button will do. Apple will place it on the right side of the phone (thus causing the mmWave antenna to move as we mentioned earlier) below the power button and it will be a capacitive button instead of a regular button. This means that it will respond to the touch of the user’s fingers.
The mmWave antenna will be moved below the volume buttons on the left side of the device, which gives us hope that we won’t see a repeat of #Antennagate (aka the “left-handed death grip”). You may remember that when the iPhone 4 was released in 2010, the phone lost connectivity if the bottom left corner of the device was covered by the user’s hand. Steve Jobs told iPhone 4 users that they were holding the device incorrectly, then tried to prove it was a problem that affected all phones and eventually shipped free rubber bumpers to the owners of the device.
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max expected to have larger screens next year
For the iPhone 4, Apple moved the antenna close to the steel band that surrounded the exterior of the phone. So when we hear that Apple is moving the mmWave antenna, we’d be a little concerned, except that even with a working mmWave antenna, connecting to high-band 5G signals is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Remember those flush solid-state buttons that were supposed to be on the iPhone 15 Pro models this year and weren’t? Well, according to Instant Digital, the iPhone 16 Pro’s action button and iPhone16 Ultra/Pro Max will be solid-state, so there will be no need to press the button to activate the action you have predefined on your phone. If you were hoping the power and volume buttons would also be solid state, fuhgeddaboudit as they say in New York. These buttons will be physical and protrude from the side like they always do.
We could see the iPhone16 The Pros will receive their own Tetraprism periscope lens next year with a slight increase in screen size to 6.2 or 6.3 inches. THE iPhone16 The Pro Max is expected to upgrade to a 6.9-inch display and all four phones will be powered by the A18 Pro chipset.
Let’s see. Hmm, we’re only a little over 10 months away from iPhone16 unveiling that gives Apple ample time to make changes to the 2024 iPhone lineup.
