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Chris Evans still misses his iPhone 6S and its home button

2022-07-17T17:48:32-04:00

Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen in The Gray Man | Image: Paul Abell/Netflix

Fans of buttons can count on Captain America for support, as Chris Evans notes that even after a few weeks with a newer phone, he still prefers his old iPhone 6S and its button. The topic came up in an interview with Collider (via iMore) while doing a press tour for Netflix's $200 million+, Russo brothers-directed spy flick The Gray Man, which he stars in along with Ryan Gosling.

Evans is far from the only person still stuck on the missing button (he and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing), which Apple swapped for a solid circle with taptic engine feedback on the iPhone 7, and eventually dropped entirely from the iPhone X onward. Evan …

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RIP Chris Evans’ iPhone 6S

2022-06-24T13:37:11-04:00

Wait, but what did Evans take this picture with? | Image: Chris Evans

I think most of us here at The Verge can agree that if we were famous celebrities who acted in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, we would always be rocking the latest and greatest tech. That's apparently not how Chris Evans, star of Lightyear and The Avengers, rolls - on June 23rd, 2022, he posted a message on Twitter and Instagram that he's finally upgrading his phone: "RIP iPhone 6S," he said. "We had a good run."

In his posts, Evan says that he'll miss the 2015 device's home button - a photo he posted shows that he's upgrading what appears to be an iPhone 13 Pro - but not the fact that it was a "nightly battle" trying to ge …

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iPhone 6S review

2015-09-22T08:00:05-04:00

Big screens won.

For the past three years, the most meaningful change to the iPhone has been the size of its screen. After years of sticking with a 3.5-inch display and watching Android-powered competitors bite off a piece of the market with ever-larger screens, Apple relented ever-so-slightly with the 4-inch iPhone 5 and 5S, and then finally gave in to obvious trends with the much larger 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and massive 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.

Big screens are all people really wanted in a phone; when they couldn't get big screens from Apple, they bought big screens from Samsung, and when Apple finally put out big screens, Samsung's sales tan …

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Force Touch on iPhone 6S will reportedly recognize three kinds of taps

2015-09-05T18:01:21-04:00

Everyone knows Apple plans to bring Force Touch to the upcoming iPhone 6S (competitor Huawei has already copied the feature), but it sounds like there may be more to it than that. The feature will reportedly be called the "3D Touch Display," and there's a reason for the name.

Update: Read the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus review.

According to Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac, the iPhone 6S will be able to detect not just taps and presses, but also a deep press. If you're keeping score, that's three different input methods - hence the "3D" moniker.

Considering scant few touchscreen smartphones have ever supported two different types of taps (let alone th …

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The iPhone 6S will reportedly still start at 16GB of storage

2015-09-02T13:38:46-04:00

The 16GB iPhone has been Apple's entry-level option for some time now, despite being more than a little controversial. Still, despite some rumors to the contrary, it looks like the company is sticking with it: 9to5Mac reports that the the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will have the same storage options as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, starting at 16GB and moving up to 64GB and 128GB. On-contract pricing, the site also reported, will likewise stay the same as 2014 models: $199, $299, and $399 for each storage tier of the 6S, and $299, $399, and $499 for the 6S Plus.

Update: Read the iPhone 6S review.

9to5 also dropped a couple tidbits about what we can …

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Apple probably won’t introduce an iPhone 6C next month

2015-08-27T16:29:17-04:00

It's a very safe bet that Apple will introduce an iPhone 6S and an iPhone 6S Plus at the event it's holding two weeks from now, but it's been an open question about whether we'll see a smaller phone - perhaps an iPhone 6C - too. According to 9to5Mac, while we might see a new 4-inch iPhone eventually, it won't be coming in September. The site reports that Apple is working on a phone with the same display size as the iPhone 5, 5S, and 5C but with the internals of the iPhone 6. It makes sense that Apple would want to differentiate its product line this way, but it seems as though people looking to move up from the iPhone 5S without changing siz …

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iPhone 6S will reportedly feature 12-megapixel camera, 4K video recording

2015-08-27T11:49:40-04:00

The iPhone camera is finally upping its megapixel count. 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman reports that the next major flagship from Apple will feature a 12-megapixel camera, an increase over the 8-megapixel approach the company has stuck with for years. As iPhones have kept loyal to the 8-megapixel sensor, Android makers like Sony, Samsung, and LG have produced some fairly remarkable 16-megapixel smartphone cameras. We recently pitted the new Galaxy Note 5 against the iPhone 6 Plus as just one example.

Update: Read the Apple iPhone 6S review.

But even at its lower resolution, the camera has remained one of the iPhone's standout and most beloved featu …

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iPhone 6S will reportedly have animated wallpaper like the Apple Watch

2015-08-27T10:52:05-04:00

9to5Mac is reporting that at least one thing separating the iPhone 6S from its predecessor will have to do with wallpaper. Similar to Apple Watch (and Android's live wallpaper feature), the next iPhone will reportedly support animated backgrounds. "For the new iPhone, we are told the types of motion wallpapers range from sets of animated fish from a koi pond to colorful arrays of smoke," wrote 9to5Mac's reliable Mark Gurman.

Read next: The iPhone 6S review.

In the most recent developer and public betas of iOS 9, Apple added a handful of new wallpapers that would make a perfect fit for this type of feature. A photo of the iPhone 6S Plus' pa …

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This is how Force Touch might work on the next iPhone

2015-08-10T18:20:44-04:00

Apple is widely expected to bring Force Touch to the next iPhone, and now we're getting some idea of how it might work. According to 9to5Mac, Force Touch will be used as a way to access shortcuts, pull up menus, and activate new functions. If that sounds kind of confusing, well, it is - for now, at least. It sounds like Force Touch on the iPhone will do different things depending on where you use it, and you'll probably have to play around to find out where it works and what it does.

Force Touch may do a lot of different things in a lot of different places

A few specific examples are provided by 9to5Mac:

As far as shortcuts go, the next iPh …

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Apple may unveil new iPhones on September 9th

2015-08-07T16:04:01-04:00

To the surprise of almost no one who follows Apple, the company is planning to hold a big event early in September to take the wraps off its next iPhone. According to the well-sourced John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed, that event will happen on Wednesday, September 9th. iPhones are a shoo-in, as they've been introduced in this timeframe every year since 2011, but BuzzFeed also claims we'll see some new iPads as well as the long-awaited new Apple TV. The latter was originally rumored to be introduced at WWDC this year, but it was nowhere to be found; the rumor mill made it sound like it wasn't quite ready to go.

As for that new iPhone, Apple is on i …

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