Given that iPhone 7 has started to reach many users from all over the world, we have the opportunity to see the first detailed explanations on how it works. This tactile Home button works based on the Taptic Engine and 3D Touch, so it is fixed, feels the pressure applied to it and generates a vibration together with the iOS action.
This tactile Home button is customizable in terms of the type of vibrations it gives, but also the intensity with which we press it, just as it happens with the screen. The entire lower part of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus case vibrates slightly when we press the Home button, this being the effect of the implementation of a vibrating motor there.
The Home button of the iPhone 7 will vibrate when we control various settings from the Settings, Clock or Calendar applications, Apple implementing a special API for this. Developers will be able to create special vibrations for their applications, so we will have a different experience in using and controlling various applications.
Apple allows the deactivation of vibrations in controlling the settings in iOS 10 through the menu Settings > Sounds & Haptics, but this will not apply to applications. Practically, the applications will be able to generate vibrations through the Home button at discretion, if they do not have internal settings to stop them. Having said that, this is how you will use the new tactile Home button of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
