End of days for smartphone home button?

The iPhone 7 rumours have been coming in fast, and we all know by now that it’s not going to come with any radical design change. Now, a new report from Japan indicates that the iPhone 7’s home button will go through a dramatic makeover.

The tech giant is likely to replace its ‘physical home button’ (that embeds Touch ID/fingerprint scanner) with a ‘capacitive button’ in the iPhone 7. This capacitive button will reportedly give the device users the feel of clicking an actual button, like a trackpad.

To achieve this, Apple has reportedly made use of a ‘set of electromagnets’. The vibration apparently creates the clicking sensation. This news came from Japan’s tech portal and tipster website Macotakara.

The expectation is that Apple might move the scanner from the home button to the screen instead.

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