We've been hearing rumors about the iPhone 15 Pro for a while now. Several leaks also hinted at interesting design changes. For example, the replacement of the Lightning port with the USB-C port and the adoption of a new mute button. We also heard that the iPhone 15 Pro models will appear to completely remove physical buttons in favor of a sort of haptic buttons for a "buttonless" design. But this may not happen after all.
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Top Apple supplier Cirrus Logic confirmed (via MacRumors) that Apple has indeed abandoned the move to solid-state buttons from physical buttons. This news confirms the earlier rumor shared by renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Cirrus Logic, via its Q4 FY23 shareholder letter, stated, "Among the HPMS opportunities we have discussed, a new product that we mentioned in previous shareholder letters scheduled to launch this fall is no longer expected to come to market as planned. As we currently have limited visibility into our customers' future plans for this product, we remove the revenue associated with this component from our internal model.”
Previously, Cirrus Logic's high-performance mixed-signal (HPMS) segment (used in iPhones) was expected to provide two taptic engines for the iPhone 15 Pro models. This would have created the feeling of pressing a button without any physical movement.
