Did the iPhone 15 Pro just get boring?

It's been a big few days for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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We'd seen the phones leak once more thanks to what appeared to be dummy units shared to the Chinese version of TikTok.

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Apple has canceled one of the iPhone 15 Pro's best new features. That's right, Apple's best iPhone of 2023 might not be getting those rumored solid-state buttons.

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We'd been hearing rumors of solid-state buttons for months of course.

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The idea was a good one — ditch the clicky volume buttons

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and replace them with something that didn't move at all.

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They were meant to vibrate using tiny Taptic Engines so as to simulate a click, and I was very happy about that.

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I was even happier when I heard about the mute switch.

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Buyers of the iPhone 15 Pro Max will get a periscope zoom camera we believe, which is cool and all. And there will be a faster A17 chip as well.

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