{"id":795,"date":"2024-12-02T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:42:02","slug":"future-iphones-could-get-multiple-action-buttons-ipad-and-mac-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/future-iphones-could-get-multiple-action-buttons-ipad-and-mac-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Future iPhones could get multiple Action buttons; iPad and Mac too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Future-iPhones-could-get-multiple-Action-buttons.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>An Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/patents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patent<\/a> has revealed that future iPhones could effectively get multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/01\/02\/iphone-action-button\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Action buttons<\/a>, as all three buttons on the left side of the phone become user-configurable.<\/p>\n<p>The same patent indicates that similar capabilities may come to other <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> devices, including both <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPads<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macs<\/a> \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,ipad,iphone,mac,patents\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"980706\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/12\/02\/future-iphones-could-get-multiple-action-buttons-ipad-and-mac-too\/#more-980706\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Apple patent has revealed that future iPhones could effectively get multiple Action buttons, as all three buttons on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}