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iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com)
Gone are the days of pressing the home button of your iPhone with an inanimate object. With the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the home button can only be activated when in contact with skin. TodaysiPhone reports: The new "solid-state" Home button found in the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus appears to require skin contact to function. As the season gets colder, and as people put gloves on, users will quickly realize that attempting to unlock the iPhone with said gloves or with a sleeve of a shirt over your finger will not work. And with the new lock screen in iOS 10, there's no way to bring up the passcode screen without pressing the Home button. Tests have shown that using gloves designed for touch screens will get an iPhone 6s Plus to unlock but not an iPhone 7 Plus. As most of us know, the Home button in the iPhone 7 is no longer a physical button -- it sits flush and uses the iPhone's haptic feedback to give the sensation of a button press. Because the button requires skin contact, it's lead us to believe that the Home button on the iPhone 7 uses Touch ID to figure out if you're pressing the button. The report notes that Carl Hancock on Twitter was able to activate the Home button using gloves made to work specifically with touch screens. The reason (in a nutshell) why we cannot interact with the capacitive Home button when wearing gloves is because the gloves block the body's natural conductivity -- humans conduct electricity and Apple's new Home button (as well as most touch screens) has an electrical charge. On the flip side, the reason why the Home button registers our skin is because it distorts the screen's electrostatic field at the point of contact, thus triggering an action.
Considering that the fingerprint scanner and the screen already needed meat, what's the difference?
To unlock you need to use your fingerprint, a password, a pin/pattern, or a slide with some meaty appendage anyway, right?
Now I need to buy new headphones *and* new gloves?!
On every smartphone, when were you able to use (regular) gloves to interact with a touch screen smartphone?
Where it never gets cold...
It demands an offering of human flesh to work!
Sometimes I need skin contact to work too!
If this is true, this product is dead, here in Finland. Alternatively, Apple fanboys will have to live with frostbitten fingers. And not even their blind dedication to the cult of Apple will carry to those extremes. Right?
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
What?!?!?!
We must now be able to capacitively couple with a device to unlock and use it's capacitively coupled UI?
Outrageous!
I saw this a few years ago so can't claim originality :)
After all, any hipster would put on gloves before it gets cool.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
To press the iHome on the iPhone, you have to use proper iGloves, approved by Apple. Now in any Apple store...
Capacitive gloves video here: http://www.imore.com/iphone-7-...
Also works with new Apple iGlove, yours for only $79.99.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I heard a story a while back that there was a town where the people use sausages to operate their cell phone when it gets too cold. Having spent the last 6 months working with a mobile test automation framework, I think it would be easier to build an Arduino-powered robot equipped with a sausage and a camera. A mobile-testing abomination, part meat, part machine! Because fuck, Apple sure doesn't make it easy to test on their shit! Naturally, you'd have to replace the sausage every so often, when your sausage robot starts getting smelly. That's just a design consideration, really.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
You mean the part where it says that tests with these gloves have NOT been able to unlock the new iPhone? No, never read that. And apparently you didn't, either.
Guy doing waterproof test on iPhone 7 is wearing some sort of gloves that seem to work on both the home button and the touch screen (he unlocks the phone at the very start of the video) : https://youtu.be/3-DtMyn7jfo So, it's not only skin that can operate the home button.
But then there's this:
"The report notes that Carl Hancock on Twitter was able to activate the Home button using gloves made to work specifically with touch screens."
FC Closer
"The report notes that Carl Hancock on Twitter was able to activate the Home button using gloves made to work specifically with touch screens."
FC Closer
Perhaps he could activate the button, but it doesn't say he was able to unlock the phone.
Hey, look, the gloves work fine:
http://www.imore.com/iphone-7-...
Picture it: legions of users who reverently raise their iPhones before their faces every time they use it -- so they can press the button with their nose.
Sieg Apple!
It feels like fire after about 20 minutes of using a device. About all I can do is swipe the phone open.
I have to use a stylus. I've gone thru expensive stylus... wore them out... lost them.. and finally If found an inexpensive stylus at dollar stores they sell 3 for $5. These stylus last a long time. You have to use a finger nail to pinch the rubbery tip back in occasionally to extend the life. Now, I've bought and lost about 12 of them and my house is at saturation. I will lose the ones I'm using but find some that I lost so I haven't had to buy any more.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Ah, yes. The once-common glove, now the new Tamagotchi.
Celebrities in Gloves
In our courageous new world, instead of offering to light some starlet's cigarette, the power move is to walk up say, "hey, can I swipe your seven?"
"You, bet, buster. I was waiting for a real man to come along and recognize that not all haute couture comes with a silver lining."
"Not to worry, I'm sure Versace will buff up on Michael Faraday, just as soon as someone in the company (outside the accounting department) finally passes Math 11."
And then struggle w/ the 50 different accents of English as it varies around the world
As an EMT I always wear gloves on scene. There are numerous apps which are good reference sources which get used on scene. If in fact the new iPhone 7 can't be turned on while wearing gloves, there is a huge number of first responders that most likely won't be upgrading to the new iPhone.
Return? Are you one of those who've even received it as yet? It already has a big pre-order list, forget the people standing in lines outside stores
More technology designed for use in a temperate location - more Californian technology for Californians.
Outside the bubble of perfect dry weather that California tech companies live in, it rains, it's cold and you have to wear gloves, sometimes it snows and is frosty.
iPhones you can't use with gloves or in rain, Tesla "autopilots" that can't handle snow and rain, Google self-driving cars that only work well on quiet, dry, well-marked roads, and so on and so on.
iPads you not only can't use with gloves, but which you can't use easily with lights behind you, sun at a low angle, or so on - only suitable for rooms with subdued lighting.
Services that assume you have a mobile data connection at all times.
From the rest of the world to California: Get out of your state more and make us things we can use where we live.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"
They phones get so warm you don't need gloves.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud*
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Or Apple could take a look at something like the Note 5. Mine works with normal gloves, like my motorcycle gloves that are nothing special, not "special silver thread" imbued. Just a good screen design.
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Yeah! That way they would sell just (only) as many iphones as Samsung sold Note 5s! After all what company wouldn't want to see their sales tank...
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Only an Apple zealot would think it's acceptable to spend $800 for a phone that you have to take your gloves off to use. Meanwhile, the rest of us all have phones that work just fine with touchscreen-compatible gloves.
On any decent phone, you can use touchscreen-compatible gloves to use it.
It's only on the iPhone7 now that apparently you can't unlock the phone without taking your (touchscreen-compatible) glove off.
Hey, having a screen that works great with standard gloves is really a nice thing. No need to have special gloves on at all. But then, I don't worship at the altar of the Shiny Fruit, so...
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Oh that's ok, choosing to cheap out on an inferior insecure product because you can't stand to expose your fingers for a few seconds is a valid option for all Inuits.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue