Tech and car firms including Apple are bringing back old-fashioned feature to gadgets and cars that customers love

Tech and car companies are ditching touch screens and bringing back physical buttons to their products. Companies such as BMW and Volkswagen are taking to implementing buttons instead of having touch screens that divert the driver's attention Tesla are one of the main manufacturers that continue to have full controls through the touchscreen interface, which experts have said are a 'major distraction' Chief executive for Copper, Sam Calisch, sad: 'Now that touch screens are the cheapest option, they're being deployed everywhere, even in places they don't belong,' reported the Wall Street Journal. In 2022 a New York Times opinion piece by Jay Capsian Kang, Touch Screens in Cars Solve a Problem We Didn't Have, said: 'I can think of no better way of describing the frustration of the modern consumer than buying a car with a feature that makes you less safe, doesn't improve your driving experience in any meaningful way, saves the manufacturer money and gets sold to you as some necessary advance in connectivity.' Their new controls are intended to improve user experience with controls on the side of the phone Apple switched their touch bar back to functional keys on MacBook Pro's in 2021 Among these companies switching back to old-fashioned features is Apple, who in their latest iPhone 16 release declared a new 'action' button as well as a touch bar for camera controls.