iOS 12.2 glyph hints at a fullscreen iPod touch with no Home button [UPDATE: fake]

Apple may move experimenting amongst notch-less designs for its iPod demeanour upon household unit of measurement of media players, which were terminal refreshed inward July 2015, based on a novel glyph discovered inward the iOS 12.2 code.

UPDATE: According to Brazilian iOS developer together with 9to5Mac writer Guilherme Rambo, the icon is fake. “I’ve precisely been able to confirm that in that location is no such icon on iOS. If in that location were, I would’ve works life it before,” he wrote on Twitter today.

Unearthed from iOS 12.2 beta 4, which released iv days ago, together with published online past times Jonathan Mitchell, the icon seems to hint that the company’s unreleased seventh-generation iPod demeanour upon mightiness borrow a fullscreen pattern without the Home push from the latest iPhones.

This was outset reported on past times MacRumors.

I was doing unopen to coding inward iOS 12.2 Beta 4. I cracked this hither on what a novel iPod demeanour upon 7th generation could hold off like. HLipod is the 6th generation HLipod2 is a unreleased generation. *Notice no habitation push together with it looks to move a sum shroud display.* @OnLeaks @stroughtonsmith pic.twitter.com/pXLzif5JMZ

— Johnathan Mitchell (@jaymit2090tx13) March 8, 2019

As you lot tin dismiss run into for yourself, the icon is labeled “HLSipod2” together with depicts what resembles an iPod demeanour upon amongst no Home button. There’s no notch for the TrueDepth photographic television set camera neither, suggesting that the adjacent revision to the media histrion may non include Touch ID nor Face ID at all.

That would jive nicely amongst recent findings past times iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith who found references to an iPod demeanour upon without Touch ID or Face ID inward an before iOS 12.2 beta.

The adjacent iPod demeanour upon should produce away amongst the Home button.

You should non receive got the icon for granted, however, because it could real good move go inward progress or precisely a placeholder for the existent glyph inward the transportation version of iOS 12.2. Case inward point: In September 2017, strings unearthed from the iOS xi GM code strongly pointed to a Face ID-enabled iPod demeanour upon but those references were inward in that location merely for future-proofing.

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Macotakara outset reported inward mid-January that Apple would loose a successor to the electrical flow sixth-generation iPod demeanour upon equally a gateway of sorts to Apple Music together with other services.

iPod demeanour upon is a compelling media histrion together with App Store machine.

A calendar month later, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo corroborated the Mac Otakara storey past times confirming amongst his provide chain sources that the adjacent iPod demeanour upon amongst a faster Apple-designed flake was inward the works. He did non advert a possible redesign for the device.

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We reviewed the electrical flow iPod demeanour upon three years ago, calling it a capable, cheap App Store machine priced at $199 for the 32GB version. As whispers of the adjacent model began circulating online, nosotros revisited our master review to run into if the media histrion is soundless worth it inward 2019.

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