📸 EVT photos of iPhone 15 Pro Max prototype with touch-sensitive buttons

📱 Photos have surfaced online of one of the early (EVT) prototypes of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which had a unified tactile volume and lock button, developed under the codename "Project Bongo". According to the project, it was planned that the 2023 device could get touch-sensitive buttons, but this was abandoned at some point. The project was canceled allegedly due to technical issues and unsatisfactory test results.

😉 However, now such touch buttons may appear in the iPhone 16.

📰 An insider who tried out this prototype says the buttons work the same way Magic Trackpad works. For haptic feedback, Apple has created a new electromagnetic engine known as the "Bongo Haptic Engine," but it generates haptic feedback just like the regular Taptic Engine.

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✍️ How to become a better writer with new AI

🖋 By making Apple Intelligence writing tools available at system level, wherever users write texts, Apple aims to make AI mainstream in a whole new way.

・AI offers several preset styles that can be used to instantly rewrite your text in a specific tone. There are three options:

🤝 Friendly
💼 Professional
🤏 Concise

Each preset is designed to make it as quick and easy as possible for your text to be rewritten. Moreover, Apple's writing tools have an option called "Describe your change." Here, you can enter requests such as "Make this read like a poem."

・Due to the fact that Apple's home-grown tools cannot compose text from scratch (they can only rewrite existing text), you can use ChatGPT to create something entirely new from scratch. This integration is a seamless part of the Apple Intelligence experience. It's entirely native, with no need to install anything extra or sign up for an OpenAI account. Text composition tools are part of Apple Intelligence – they're just powered by ChatGPT, rather than Apple.

・ With the proofreading feature, your writing style will be kept fully intact, but Apple will offer suggestions for revisions based on spelling and grammar issues.

・ Finally, Apple Intelligence can also analyse your text and draw out key points. Apple's writing tools include two buttons - Summary and Key Points - that will help you focus on what the text is about.

👍 AI writing tools will be available in whatever app you're using across your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and they are not limited to only Apple apps.

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How to customize the all-new Control Center in 📱 18

🆕 iOS 18 brings a major update to Control Center that expands both capabilities and customization. The quick access controls go from a single page to multiple ones that you can smoothly slide through. Providing even more functionality, Apple is opening Control Center to third-party apps and you can invoke it from the iPhone Lock Screen as well as the Home Screen.

🤳 How to customize and use Control Center in iOS 18:

1. From the Lock or Home Screen, swipe down from the top right corner of your screen.
2. You can stop on the first Control Center screen (Favorites) or do one longer continuous swipe down to access the new Music, Home, or Connectivity Control Center screens.
3. Tap the + icon in the top left corner to add controls and customize (or long press in an empty space)
4. Drag on the bold rounded corner of a control to make it larger or smaller
5. When in edit mode, you can tap the dotted circle icon just below the Connectivity page to create a fifth or sixth Control Center page from scratch.

After you add new buttons and controls, you can try long pressing and dragging on the corner of one to expand or contract the size.

💬 You may share a screenshot the way you customized your updated Control Center in the comments.

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