Apple may be changing up the button combo to turn off the iPhone 15 Pro, but why can’t we go back to the simpler days of just a power button?
When the original iPhone launched many years ago, it was the epitome of simple, yet functional. It gave us the mute switch, distinctive volume buttons, a Home button, and the power button. As far as the buttons go, it was all pretty self-explanatory: the mute switch puts the phone on silent/vibrate, volume buttons adjust volume up or down, press the Home button to go back to the Home screen, and hold down the power button to turn your phone on or off.
With the iPhone 4S, Apple integrated Siri directly into iOS, and one could invoke it by pressing down on the Home button. But when Apple got rid of the Home button with the iPhone X, it had to figure out a different way to call up Siri. Instead of a Home button, you now could bring up Siri by doing a long press on the power/side button. A quick press of that button simply locks or wakes the display.
Now, when you want to completely power down or restart your iPhone, you have to do a combo of both the side and volume down button to bring up the power option, as well as bring up SOS or Medical ID. Rumor has it that Apple will be replacing the mute switch on the iPhone 15 Pro with a multiuse Action Button instead, which I believe would be more useful. However, there’s a possibility that Apple will use the Action Button instead of volume down when you power down the phone.
But hear me out — what if Apple let us go back to a single button for powering the iPhone off, instead of some new, convoluted button combination that keeps changing every couple of years?Let’s go back to the basics
For a company that was once heralded for “simplicity,” it certainly doesn’t feel that way these days, with more convoluted features in iOS (like changing your wallpapers in iOS 16) and the changing up of the iPhone 15 Pro mute switch and volume buttons.
