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In October 2022, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that physical buttons on the next iPhone could be virtual. We posted his full tweet here. Then in April 2023, Kuo reversed course and claimed that solid-state buttons were not going to be available to the iPhone 15. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that...

Back in October 2022, Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted about his research on Apple adopting a new "solid-state" button design for iPhone that will replace the current physical/mechanical button design. Yet a recently published patent describes having a next-gen button system superior to using solid-state buttons