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Since it has become a full screen, the Home button, which has served iPhone for 10 years, has also been “optimized”, so the interaction is definitely different.

At the time, there were several statements about the interactive operation:

1. Although the flesh of the Home button is gone, the soul is still there. The full-screen iPhone will have a virtual home button similar to the “white dot”.

2. Full screen The bottom of the iPhone will have a horizontal Function area, similar to the virtual buttons at the bottom of Android.

3. Use 3D Touch and give it more operations.

4.Introduction similar to iPad and MaMulti-finger gestures on the cBook trackpad.

Because these interaction predictions are different from the hardware, it cannot obtain relevant information through the leakage of the supply chain or even factory parts, so the predictions on the full-screen interaction have always been divergent. No convincing evidence.

Function Area predicted by Ming-Guo Guo in a report

Until the introduction of iOS 11 GM, the puzzles were finally solved.

Guillherme Rambo found a small bar at the bottom of the interface in the iOS 11 GM. At that time, everyone did n’t know what the small bar was called, but you can get it through the code. It is known that this small bar is the role of the virtual home button, but it also combines gesture operations, which has a little more functionality than the home button. By sliding in different directions, you can achieve operations such as returning to the desktop and switching multitasking.

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There is also a question about the Home button being removed, which has a big impact, that is how to unlock it.

The discussion of this issue is relatively less complicated than the interaction described above. In other words, one is the fingerprint on the screen, and the other is facial recognition. And combined with the maturity of the fingerprint technology at the time, analysts’ predictions, and judgments on the function of big bangs, most people are more inclined to facial recognition.

But it’s interesting that the facial recognition clues that were originally found from a software perspective were also not found on iOS, but still on that HomePod firmware.

An anonymous developer at the time discovered some clues in the BiometricKit code section of the new HomePod firmware. Because this part of the code is responsible for connecting the biometric part of the iPhone, it was previously some fingerprint identification codes, but in the new version it contains many names with “FaceDectect (Face Detection) ” new code .

Subsequently, many software engineers, including Steve Troughton-Smith mentioned above, also found more code evidence in the iOS and HomePod firmwares respectively. The iPhone X’s facial recognition requires multi-angle entry, Use of infrared components and key information that can be used for payment .

Even two days before the conference, the little round face animation that appeared when using Face ID was dug up.

What’s the name of this tenth anniversary iPhone? It is not difficult to predict the new iPhone according to the previous iPhone naming rules. If it is behind the iPhone 7S, it should be the iPhone 8.

But this product is not only the representative work of the iPhone for the past 10 years, but also the Kaishan work that will lead the next 10 years. There must be any difference in the naming. So the name of this tenth anniversary iPhone was circulating on the Internet in various versions. Is that iPhone 8S, iPhone 10, iPhone X, iPhone Edition, or iPhone 10th Anniversary Special Commemorative Edition?

In the end, it convinced people that this product was named iPhone X or Steve Troughton-Smith. Through deep digging into the iOS 11 GM version, he finally determined the names of the three new iPhones at the conference 3 days before the conference , that is, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8 we later knew iPhone X has also indirectly confirmed rumors that Apple will release three iPhones at this conference.

At this point, almost all the important parts of the iPhone X have been wiped out.

Of course, their record of digging for clues goes far beyond that. Take the heavyweight products of the past two years. The key information including the latest iPad Pro will use a full screen design, AirPods Pro with noise reduction, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro frame will be narrower. They have also dug out one by one in various systems.

This job is even harder than being a detective

The reason why it can be done almost 100% is because the source of this information is actually from Apple itself. But because of this, it will become very difficult.

Apple not only hides information deeply, but also hides and disguises this critical information. So if you want to discover clues about new products by deconstructing these codes, you must not only be professional and patient, but also need strong organizational skills and identification skills.

This is one of the most iconic Guilherme Rambo quotes from Apple Spelunker in an interview. Guilherme Rambo is best known in the industry for developing a third-party WWDC support application on macOS. But what really got him into the public eye was a lot of new product clues that he had dug in recent years.

Guilherme Rambo

Everyone knows that Apple’s confidentiality has always been strict, especially in the supply chain and production lines. But the scope involved is so wide that it is actually difficult for Apple to plug every loophole.

The same is true of software.

Guilherme Rambo said that Apple’s ecosystem is too powerful, such as iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. These software support the entire Apple’s hardware and service system, which are independent and accessible to each other, so the area involved is too wide. It is almost impossible to leak water.

But it doesn’t mean that this is easy, it is even more difficult than being a detective to solve the case. Because these clues are not directly there. The code that this group of Apple Spelunke has to deal with is fragmented. They must not only understand it, but also be good at association and induction . Speaking of how to dig clues, Guilherme Rambo said:

Everyone may think that we can finish as long as we continue to dig. It’s not. There is a file in my computer that contains a lot of clue fragments. When I come across some code that I can’t guess for a while, I will record it. If later I see code in the new system that looks familiar, such as D33, J230, etc., I will re-search those tags in that old document, look at some of my previous records, and try to find them Association.

For example, I broke a lot of information about the iPad Pro at the time. In fact, it was a long time of combing, and the clues in itIt runs through multiple iOS Beta versions.

This means that this work is not only cross-system but also cross-version.

In addition, Guilherme Rambo also said that these codes are the same as people writing, and different people have different styles. It’s quite difficult to read someone else’s code, especially if it is disguised. Their group of Apple Spelunkers often share their results with each other. Although most of the time their findings are consistent, sometimes they will find that their interpretation is a matter of two different directions.

In order not to let yourself go in the wrong direction and take a less devious way, in fact, based on some industry chain information forecast reports, they often pay attention to and get a lot of help:

I think it ’s not just our own credit to be able to discover this information, because the predictions obtained through industry analysis will be of great help to us. We often refer to this information to understand the general trend of Apple. Try not to let yourself go further and further in the wrong direction.

It’s not just applause

With such a powerful spoiler ability, Apple Spelunker like Guilherme Rambo is quite popular both on the breaking news website and on his own social account. Of course, we also have to face a lot of accusations:

Most people love our work and think it’s cool. But some people don’t think so. They said that the Apple conference was a long-awaited two-hour TV show for them, but after our spoiler, it became a two-hour commercial.

I respect their opinions, but I disagree. I will watch almost every press conference, but my focus is not on what will be released, but on why Apple will release these new products. These new products are the most important to me and consumers.

These information cannot be found by our work.

Guilherme Rambo said when asked if he was under pressure from Apple. But these pressures are not the means to suppress, but rather With the upgrade of various anti-reverse compilation methods, it is not as easy as before to find clues .

Guilherme Rambo ’s Apple Developer account was banned in August last year. This issue has also been hotly debated on the Raddit forum and other websites. Many people suspect that the leaking work of Guilherme Rambo violated some of the confidentiality matters in the developer agreement, and said that it is likely to be permanently banned.

But after two months, the developer account of Guilherme Rambo was restored. Although Guilherme Rambo did not explain the reason for the ban, he previously revealed in an interview about the relationship between him and Apple:

I cannot reveal too much about these issues. But what I can say is that, although not often, we do maintain contact. And I learned from friends that some employees inside Apple actually like my job, although I don’t know why.

This article is from WeChat public account: AppSo (ID: appsolution) , author: Lei Jianheng