Apple is reportedly working on touch-sensitive cases for future iPhone Pros | Infinium-tech

Modular phones never caught on and cases that add functionality are very rare – perhaps that’s because Apple hasn’t noticed it yet. leakster instant digital Says that “Apple will invest heavily in official protective cases in the future”.

The goal is to turn cases into “second touch interfaces”. What does it mean? The leakster is quite vague about it. Is this a full-fledged second touchscreen like LG and Asus? It doesn’t seem so. Will it be a touch pad like we see on the iPad keyboard cover? Unclear.

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Apparently, the goal is to add new features to the iPhone Pros and make them “even more Pro.” iPhones already have a camera control, which is a capacitive touch area that serves several functions. This is not a Pro-exclusive feature and what’s worse, it is not particularly popular.

This could be a way for Apple to remove physical keys on its phones – something Apple has been rumored to be working on for years – and replace them with inputs on the case.

Apple has one interesting patents Title “Case with inputs for electronic devices”. Its description reads: “For example, a case may provide an electromechanical touch sensor to provide the user with an input mechanism that does not require activation of a button of the electronic device. The electronic device, upon detecting the presence of the case, may disable one or more buttons and perform actions corresponding to the buttons upon receiving a signal from the case.”

Well, the next Pro models are coming in 2026, while the vanilla models will be unveiled half a year later.

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