Apple unveiled the Taptic Engine for the first time on the Apple Watch two years ago - released last year - and was used to send a pulse to those who own the watch from your friends or use it to sense alerts when it arrives. Over time, Apple adopted this technology in its other devices such as the Mac and most recently the iPhone 7. So let's take a closer look at this technology and what it can do.
When Apple wanted to use the click engine in the new iPhone, it had to remove the headphone jack to take advantage of the space it uses. With this, you can add a click engine to the device and make it waterproof.
Apple uses the click engine to sense the user that he has done the thing he wants by sending a reaction from the device, which is a simple shake that the user feels as if he touched him. What is its mechanism of action and what is the difference before and after its existence?
Pre-engine click.
Most smartphone manufacturers use a vibration motor called ERM, which is an acronym for Eccentric Rotating Mass, and its main function is to send vibrations for the user to feel.
The ERM motor is based on rotating at a very high speed, which makes it produce vibrations perpendicular to the axis of rotation. In the iPhone 5, for example, the vibration motor is located in the upper left and rotates horizontally. The vibrations are produced vertically, which makes them strong in places and weak in others (yellow arrow).
Before the iPhone 6, Apple used the ERM Vibration Drive for all devices, except for the iPhone 4S and iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. It used a motor that does the same function of converting electricity into kinetic energy, but with a completely different mechanism of action and bears the name LRA, which is an abbreviation of the Linear Resonant Actuator. Apple preferred the LRA over the ERM because it can deliver twice the power with less than half power.
Beyond the “Taptic Engine” ..
As we mentioned, the click engine main function is to notify the user that he has completed something. On the iPhone 7, Apple canceled the home button and replaced it with a dummy button. When you press the home button, the click engine simulates the feeling of being pressed. Meaning, if the phone is locked, you will not be able to press the Home button, because the click engine is not working.
Not only that, with iOS 10, Apple gave developers the opportunity to access the click engine through their applications. For example, it is possible when browsing an application that uses the Taptic Engine API, when reaching the end of the page, the user will feel as if he has bumped into something.
Apple did not allow developers the opportunity to use the Taptic Engine API before iOS 10 was officially released. For this, not many apps are using this engine yet.
What do you think of Apple's idea of providing the Taptic Engine in the iPhone 7? Do you feel that it will add something new to the future of technology?
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Is click engine present in iPhone 6s?
We want to try this feature in order to feel this feeling
Because you did not remember the previous generation, I commented and thanks for the clarification
Apple's new click engine is very excellent, especially with making developers able to create games that perfectly simulate reality, like a valuable video joystick. It is fun to feel playing cars while crashing, detonating and shooting in action movies
Peace be upon you. I am facing a problem with a synchronized app
Where when I open the application the screen becomes completely black
Even after I deleted the app and re-downloaded it, the same problem occurred
I expect the same as the 6s
This vibration motor was created by Apple. It doesn't bother you, but you can feel it
I wish them the absence of the Home button in the case was a mark of difference to Apple
The vibration motor in the iPhone 6S is excellent as it does not make you feel like the body of the phone, but rather gives the feeling that the phone is stable and at the same time not annoying it does not make noise when placed on a wooden desk and this is what I liked
Taptic engine is present from 6s
I mean, if the purpose of the article
It is the vibration that is produced when touched
I see that it is a very desirable move for iPhone users
This engine was used in the iPhone 6s as well
Is there a modification by Apple in the software store
Because it happened with me and it took a while
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Are right
I agree with you in some of what you have said
You have exaggerated your negative comments about the articles a lot
Thank you, great and useful move 👍
I did not understand this article or explanation where it was
But simplify it
A cat, like a little burner, was the vibrator of early phones
So why is this complexity 😒
If not I understood something from the article, may God help you
M a I know how to explain it to you
And then the old vibrator you mean
This is not just shaking the phone shaking the phone and the table with it
Because so every time something develops
This new is annoying
Taptic Engine
You mentioned that Apple added it on the iPhone 6 only, but what is the user called in the iPhone SXNUMX?
LRA
No brother, Apple uses the same technology, but on a smaller level, in the six S and the proof is triple touch vibration
No, dear, we did not mention that it was only in the iPhone 6, we just mentioned that it was used in the iPhone XNUMX and we wrote the explanation about it. The engine used in the iPhone XNUMXS is also a Taptic Engine.
It is used in the 6s to give the feeling to the whole device, the same function is used in the 7 with the addition of a special motor for the Home button to give the same feeling in a concentrated shape at the bottom of the device.