The great news that was going to come to the iPhone 15 and that Apple removed at the last moment

2023-09-24 04:06:54

The iPhone 15 hit stores on Friday of this week. Among the main novelties of the Pro templates, highlights the inclusion of the USB-C input for charging, new chips, improvements in the cameras and the appearance of a new action button. However, this was not all that Apple intended to add to its new terminals.

According to the site specialized in information on the brand of the bitten apple’Macrumors‘, the company also intended to completely eliminate the two physical buttons that allow users to regulate the volume of the terminal and the one that allows them to turn off the phones. The side frames of the device would have been completely smooth, but the functions would still be present thanks to the haptic technology.

According to Apple’s initial plan, called Project Bongo, when the user pressed the haptic surface and slid their finger up or down, the device would emit a vibration that would try to simulate the sensation of touching a real button. And this would be valid both to regulate the volume and to turn the terminal or screen on and off.

Thanks to this change, the design of the iPhone 15 would have undergone a notable facelift. The vibration that the haptic buttons would have generated would also have been greater or lesser depending on the speed at which the user raised or lowered the volume.

In principle, the novelty was going to be available exclusively in the iPhone 15 Pro y Pro Max. And it was very, very close to becoming a reality. I even reach the last phases of development; However, the company ended up ruling out its incorporation in the new models due to the high error rate that was recorded during the tests. This is what motivated the company to finally end up abandoning the plan and going back to betting on the traditional button panel.

Although the novelty was left out of the Pro models of the iPhone 15 family; It is not at all possible that the company, after correcting the errors, decides to incorporate it into the presumed iPhone 16. But to clear up doubts about this we will still have to wait a year, which is what remains for Apple to renew its line of high-end phones.