OK, we can relax. The iPhone ‘hang up’ button might not be moving much after all

Almost per week after the Apple trustworthy collectively gasped on the first proof that the iPhone’s purple “end call” button would possibly quickly be vacating its middle place to take up residence one column to the proper, it seems to be prefer it may need been largely a false alarm.

The preliminary shock adopted the discharge of final week’s take a look at, or beta, model of iOS 17, the subsequent main replace of the iPhone’s working software program. That’s the place customers first noticed the end-call button, which has historically lived in splendid isolation centered effectively under operate buttons similar to “mute,” “keypad” and “speaker,” as an alternative becoming a member of its friends and taking a extra assimilated place within the decrease right-hand nook of a six-button block.

Now, although, photographs of the newest iOS 17 beta shared by a number of media websites reveals the purple button proper again within the middle of the cellphone dialpad, fairly near the place it is lengthy staked out its territory. But it is nonetheless not alone; now it is within the second row, middle seat of that six button block, the place it seems to be daring you to strive hanging up with out additionally opening the keypad or unintentionally including one other participant to your name.

To be honest, it is all the time troublesome to attract agency conclusions from beta software program releases, that are supposed each to assist engineers seek out bugs and to gauge person response to adjustments giant and small. So they seem to be a bit experimental by nature, and a few experiments fare higher than others.

But we do not have a lot alternative however to take a position whether or not the end-call button’s wanderings have come to an finish. Apple usually would not touch upon its design course of — or a lot of anything — and didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Associated Press.