iPhone 15 Pro: the end of mechanical buttons and three Taptic Engines

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are expected to no longer have mechanical buttons for volume management and ignition according to information from Ming-Chi Kuo.

The analyst, generally well informed, reports that the iPhone 15 Pro will adopt a format similar to that of the Home button of the iPhone 7. This one was capacitive. This means that pressing it did nothing when the phone was turned off. On the other hand, there was haptic feedback when the phone was turned on in order to give the user the impression that he was pressing a physical button. History would therefore repeat itself with the iPhone 15 Pro, except that this would concern the volume buttons and the ignition button.

According to Kuo, this change will involve having three Taptic Engines with the iPhone 15 Pro, where current models have only one. The two new ones would be located on the left and right of the new smartphones, where the buttons are present. This will naturally please Luxshare and AAC Technologies, which currently supply the components for the Taptic Engine of existing iPhones. They know that orders will increase.

Kuo concludes by indicating that high-end Android smartphones will adopt the same system as the iPhone 15 Pro in terms of buttons.