device is designed IPhone Your phone can withstand some moisture, but once your fingers get wet or the screen becomes wet, it will be difficult for you to write on the iPhone, but it seems that this will change in the future due to a new patent for Apple that allows iPhone users to use the screen and write on it During rain or in the water without any problem.
New patent
Apple has obtained a new patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office called “Modifying the Function of an Electronic Device During Humidity,” which could facilitate the use of the iPhone when exposed to moisture.
Through that patent, Apple plans to make the iPhone screen able to adapt to humidity, whether it's rain or heavy rain, or even when the device is used underwater.
The technology used in the patent will work to detect and ignore the false touches resulting from water contact with the screen, and when the screen is wet, the controls will change, the size of the buttons may be enlarged or moved away from each other to improve pressure accuracy.
In addition, the iPhone screen will automatically switch to a pressure-sensitive screen such as XNUMXD Touch technology (Force Touch), which used to provide different functions depending on slight differences in pressure but is no longer used by Apple.
To prevent raindrops or liquids from accidentally triggering the touch input, the user will need to press a little harder and the force of the pressure will change based on the amount of moisture (light rain or heavy rain).
new modes
Furthermore, an image in one of the patent files shows the iPhone's camera app offering more than one choice of modes such as "dry", "wet" and "underwater". Depending on the situation, changes will be made to the interface of the camera application.
For example, in wet mode, some features will be removed from the camera app interface while in underwater shooting mode, some controls will be replaced with large buttons with limited functionality, as it would be easier to use them underwater.
In the case of underwater photography, the iPhone screen will display the current depth of the device so that the user can keep it within the limits of water resistance (maximum 6 meters up to 30 minutes for iPhone 12 and 13). Not to confuse users.
In the end, almost every year, Apple gets many patents and most of them are amazing, but the problem here is that many of those patents are put on the shelf and do not appear in public but disappear forever, so we may see in the future an iPhone with a screen that works during rain or not It's up to Apple.
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