iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max tipped to launch with solid-state buttons from Cirrus Logic

The return of the Home Button and its functions to the iPhone is something that been bandied around for years. Now, Apple may indeed have something for those still harboring nostalgia for the once-iconic component after all in 2023 - just not in the way most people who remember them might expect.

Now, according to the well-known industry commentator Ming-Chi Kuo, this is more likely to happen as Apple has just selected its partners to make this subtle, yet potentially major, hardware design revolution a reality. They include Cirrus Logic, the "high-performance advanced haptics" solution provider.

As the buttons will apparently be most like those defining characteristics of the iPhone 8 or SE series, albeit found on either side of a given device, they will need their own extra corresponding, dedicated Taptic Engines, for which the Cupertino behemoth has also reportedly tapped AAC Technologies and Luxshare ICT as additional suppliers to craft these allegedly next-gen buttons.

This new post is right in line with 15-series rumors that endorse the idea that Apple might indeed make this switch in this generation - possibly as a first step toward an even more monolithic future for its mobile devices.

Finally, Kuo also now intimates that haptics tech companies may be in for even more of this new line of business in the future, as next-gen Android flagships get in on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max' new button type in the near future.

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