https://www.cnet.com/news/surprise-your-lifx-tiles-are-about-to-become-touch-sensitive-ces-2019/

Apparently, Lifx Tiles were touch enabled all along. Lifx hasn't rolled out the software that enables those touch controls yet, but plans to no late than February of this year. That means that, within weeks, all existing Lifx Tiles will become touch sensitive, allowing you to tap on them to change between your preset scenes.

"It was just matter of focus and resources," Lifx CEO Tim Peters tells me, explaining that the company has a habit of launching products with "latent capabilities." Sounds like Lifx was eager to get its Tiles on the market before Nanoleaf, which was already finding big success selling multiple versions of its own color-changing panels at major retailers like Best Buy, pulled too far ahead.