iPhone says goodbye to this iconic button forever

Apple has replaced one of the most classic buttons on its iPhone to increase its versatility

Over the years, Apple’s iPhone has evolved with major design changes. This has given way to the Californian company removing various elements from its iconic phones such as the classic home button from iPhone or input 3.5mm jack for headphones.

Apple eliminated the headphone jack in 2016 with the arrival of the iPhone 7 in preparation for a wireless future, although it had to provide various adapters in its catalog to facilitate the transition. A little later, in December of the same year, the first generation of AirPods arrived. For its part, the final farewell to the home button came in September 2017 with the launch of the iPhone X.

Well now Apple just removed another of the most legendary elements of its iPhone. With the remarkable entry of the iPhone 16 range, the Cupertino company replaced the side sound switch of all iPhone models with the Action button. Something that did not happen with the iPhone 15 series, since the base models still had the sound switch and the Action button was exclusively on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models.

Apple Removes Sound Switch: Saying Goodbye to the Past in Search of a Better Future

In the future, Most likely, all physical buttons on smartphones – and many other technological devices such as televisions, controls, fans… – will eventually disappear completely. giving way to other more versatile alternatives such as touch screens. We don’t know when this will happen, maybe in 10 years or maybe in 20 years. But it will eventually happen. Not so much in keyboards, which require a design with a certain comfort so as not to damage our fingers. Although new materials will always end up appearing.

As users, many of us will miss physical buttons like the side sound button on the iPhone. In the same way that today, we feel nostalgia for the physical keyboards of legendary mobile phones like the Nokia 3210. Yes, they were not the most comfortable or efficient in the world, but you know, any time in the past was always a better time.

But it does predict a promising future for us. The inclusion of the action button and the camera control button on both sides of the iPhone 16 generation They will completely change the rules of the game and open the doors to technological innovations. This will greatly improve the user experience of Apple phones.

In fact, the Action button that replaces the volume switch is capable of doing much more than just muting the sound. With the Action button on the side of the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 16 models, it’s possible turn on silent mode, open the camera, activate focus modes, create a voice memo, open the magnifier, translate content or even run a shortcut.

So, dear readers, we will now have nothing but nostalgia and the desire to remember better times. We will no longer believe that the iPhone speakers were damaged by the accidental activation of the sound switch. But the Action button is the future. And the future is now.

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