Beats’ new iPhone 16 cases work with the Camera Control button

Beats, Apple’s different headphone brand, conscionable announced its archetypal postulation of smartphone cases designed for the Apple 16 lineup, with afloat compatibility for the caller Camera Control button.

The $49 hardshell polycarbonate cases diagnostic “flexible sidewalls” to assistance sorb immoderate of the interaction of an accidental fall, and a microfiber lining to support an iPhone’s finish. According to Beats, the outer aboveground of each lawsuit has been treated with a “glossy scratch-resistant coating,” a diagnostic that perchance comes successful effect to Apple’s problematic — and now discontinued — microtwill FineWoven cases, which were prone to being easy scratched and marred.

Available to bid today done Apple’s website successful midnight black, acme stone, riptide blue, and sunset purple colorways, the caller Beats cases usage a “sapphire crystal coupled to a conductive layer” to construe digit presses and swipe gestures to the iPhone 16’s Camera Control button. They besides see an further ringing of magnets for a much unafraid transportation to MagSafe and Qi2 wireless chargers and accessories.