Apple's long awaited iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus landed in stores this last Friday and everyone is going crazy over the new duo. They bring lots of new features and customisation but the one thing they lack is the 3.5mm headphone port. Perhaps this was the biggest downfall of the iPhone 7 although many Apple fans argue that this is for the best and we need to move forward in terms of headphone technology.
Apart from not having a headphone jack, The iPhone 7 has one other major drawback for people that live in colder climates. The new iPhones feature a touch sensitive home button now instead of a clickable button like in the previous generations.
Apple did this to make the phones water resistant , because this could only be achieved if they removed the tiny gap between the button and the glass front panel, that would have allows water to go in. However , even though the new home button effectively recreates the sensation of pressing a physical button , thanks to Apple taptic feedback engine, it does not work exactly the same way.
The new home button is capacitive, meaning it can only be pressed when a conductive object such as our finger , is used to press it. This means if you're wearing thick winter gloves the new home button wont respond to your touch.
This issue was first brought in by a British Twitter user named Myke Hurley.
Some were very quick to point out that the iPhone 7 was designed it California where Gloves are very rarely worn anyways , due to the warm climate, however this does not mean that the iPhone isn't going to be used in other parts of the world.
There is a fix for this though. Apple introduced a new feature in iOS 10 called "Raise to Wake" which wakes up you screen when you pick your iPhone up. Doing much more than this would require you to take your gloves off anyways as the screen on the iPhone is also capacitive.
Gloves with conductive fingertips are also becoming popular but there are mixed reports on whether these would work with the iPhone 7's home button , but if you're desperate , they're certianly worth a shot.
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