
Apple isn't a big fan of mechanical buttons, and it's been trying to remove the ones on the side of the iPhone for some time now. The iPhone 15 Pro was reported to be switching from mechanical to solid state buttons by multiple sources starting in October 2022 and repeated earlier this year, but that rumour was then squashed in April with news that the iPhone 15 wouldn't be going solid-state after all. The button banishment, we were told, would now happen in the iPhone 16 instead.
So much for that plan. According to a new research note from investment firm Haitong International Securities analyst Jeff Pu (via MacRumors), the buttons aren’t going to make it into the iPhone 16 either.