iPhone 7 Home Button Doesn't Work Without Skin Contact
 

As discovered by Myke Hurley (via Daring Fireball), iPhone 7 and 7 Plus users are going to have a tough time unlocking their devices during wintertime. As it turns out, the new "solid-state" Home button on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus requires skin contact to function.

If you put on a pair of gloves or cover your finger with the sleeve of a shirt and attempt to open the iPhone 7, the Home button will **t respond to a press unless it's touching skin. And because the iPhone 7 uses the redesigned Lock screen in iOS 10, there's ** way to bring up the passcode entry screen to unlock the phone manually.

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We tested with a pair of gloves that are designed for touch screens and while we could unlock the iPhone 6s Plus with the gloves, that wasn't possible with the iPhone 7 Plus. There are reports suggesting some of these types of gloves do work, however, so it may vary based on the material of the gloves.

So here's a thing.

Cover your iPhone 7 home button with material (like from a t-shirt) and try to click it.

😑

— Myke Hurley (@imyke) September 16, 2016

The redesigned Home button in the iPhone 7 is ** longer a physical button -- it's flush with the iPhone and uses haptic feedback to give the sensation of button presses. Because it's requiring skin contact to unlock the device, it's likely the iPhone 7 is using the Touch ID fingerprint sensor to register touch.

While skin contact is required to unlock the phone, the new "Raise to Wake" functionality still allows the Lock screen to be viewed without a touch, so it continues to be possible to view incoming **tifications. Fully unlocking the phone will require a free finger that's u**bscured by fabric.

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