This fall’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models will use a different button press combination to force restart or power off the handsets, says an anonymous source claiming to have details about the iPhone 15 Pro lineup ahead of its launch.
Currently, owners of recent model iPhones power off their devices with a simultaneous button combo that involves pressing the Side button and either volume buttons. The same buttons are used in a different combo to perform a hard reset of the devices.
We’ve seen multiple rumors that Apple will remove the iPhone 15 Pro’s mute switch, replacing it with a physical button. The new button, known internally as the “ringer button” or the “action button,” could possibly turn out to be a customizable button, much like the Action button on this year’s Apple Watch Ultra.
The new “action” button is said to take the place of the role of the volume buttons when resetting or powering off the iPhone 15 Pro models, says a leaker called @analyst941 on Twitter.
“The volume up and power button will no longer be used to power off the device, or ‘force-restart’ it,” tweeted the leaker. “The sequence remains, but the combination will be changed to action and power button.”
https://twitter.com/analyst941/status/1647403015207366656?s=20
In a follow-up tweet, @analyst941 also claimed that the “Action” button will replace the volume-up button for taking photos in the Camera app. Force-sensitivity is said to enable a light press to auto-focus the camera, a hard press to take a picture, and a hard/long press to record video.
https://twitter.com/analyst941/status/1647403017795260417?s=20
It should be noted that several other sources have indicated that Apple has made a last-minute decision to drop the much-expected unified volume button we’d been expecting to see on this fall’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models, delaying it for a model next year or after that, due to what Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said is “unresolved technical issues.”
However, @analyst941, who has in the past been the source of accurate pre-release information, believes they are still coming to the iPhone 15 Pro.
