In Apple’s latest iOS developer beta, the top call button has moved back to the center of the screen, as seen by CNBC on Tuesday.
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Apple has moved the “end call” button back to the center of the screen in the latest developer version of iOS 17, released Tuesday.
The move reverses a change that Apple had been considering over the summer, as CNBC reported last week.
Previous beta versions of iOS 17 had moved the red “end call” button to the lower right-hand corner, versus centered in the underside half of the screen, where it had been for years. Nonetheless, in essentially the most recent developer beta, the top call button is centered vertically, in the midst of three buttons near the underside of the screen.
Apple’s possible user interface change is not final yet and is just showing up in Apple’s most up-to-date developer’s beta for now. Apple’s developer and public beta release programs are intended for software makers and early adopters to check out the brand new iPhone operating system and find bugs before they’re officially released in the autumn alongside latest iPhones.
Apple’s end call button has been in roughly the identical place for years. But in the latest version, it’s revamping its call ID function, with a latest feature called “contact posters,” which allows users to select the photo that shows up once they call one other iPhone user. The brand new photos take up a lot of the screen during a phone call, so Apple moved the buttons to the underside.
In the summertime of 2021, Apple considered an analogous change to Safari that moved the URL bar to the underside of the page, which is more ergonomic for most individuals using larger screens. But Apple rolled back a few of its planned changes and gave users the choice to maneuver the URL bar back to the highest of the page before the official software was released. Apple has also moved where push notifications appear to the underside of the iPhone’s screen in recent times.
