iPhone 7 Home Button: iPhone 7 Workaround When "Pressure-Sensitive" Home Button Fails

The iPhone 7, the latest flagship from Apple was just released last month. Reports about the major changes which Apple has made to its latest flagship have already flooded the internet. Aside from the improved camera hardware and missing headphone jack, the phone's home button was also reinvented.

Rather than the traditional button that iPhone users have to press, the home button of the iPhone 7 is now in a "solid state" form which is pressure-sensitive. Though the iPhone 7 is only a month old, Apple had already come up with a neat workaround incase the touch-sensitive home button fails. Some users had discovered that iOS 10 is smart enough to detect whenever your iPhone 7's home button fails and will suggest you to use the onscreen home button instead. iOS 10 will first inform the user to have the phone serviced and will activate the onscreen home button for the mean time.

MacRumors forum member iwayne first noticed the said feature after his phone's haptic engine started to act weird. The notice appeared when user iwayne had to reboot his device after it randomly restarted itself while charging. The home button worked for a moment, before "misfiring again 3-4 times in a row" every time he pressed it. The touch-sensitive home button is one of the biggest reinvention in the iPhone 7.

It assures that there are no moving parts which means things are less likely to break. This may be one of the reasons that Apple engineers chose this path for the home button. Though Apple's main intention is brilliant, we can't be all sure that nothing is going to break, not even with the new "solid state" home button.

This feature of iOS 10 will not only benefit the users of iPhone 7. This feature will also benefit users of the previous iPhone generations.