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iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera control is the dumbest, most useless, most in the way feature in smartphone history
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Yup this is what I did, perfect for using it as a quick shortcut to get to the camera and that that means I don't accidentally launch it.
Me as well! Love it, and use it nearly every day. Also find it very simple to use, especially the half-press to quickly change the zoom. That said, I’ve used cameras for years, and I’m use to the way this works.
Honestly think people would be well-off taking a class or two at the Apple Store so they can learn how their phones work 💪
Sad to see at the event, they didn't even mention it, and their paid promoters (YouTubers) aren't even using it in their hands on videos 😅. Onscreen controls was and will always been more intuitive.
Coming from a 15PM I am intrigued by the camera control button on the phone. It will be interesting to see how it works.
I think its the exact opposite. On screen is such a hassle and not intuitive, I never understood why it would be such a bad system for a device thats main goals are " taking calls and taking photoes" with. As said so many lost opputunities for when you need to take a photo/video not even a second too late. Button for photographers like me is the most intiutive there is.
Exactly! I am a hobby photographer as well, love mys dslr. But the best camera is the one you had in hand at that exact moment when capturing something at a moments notice, so I film and shoot almost daily with my iphone
Thanks for the comment. I discovered the problem. A necessary setting wasn’t enabled.
Had the same issue until I went to cam control settings and realized the light press functions were turned off. During the setup phase there’s a camera control screen where you can choose whether to use it or not, and I must have disabled it.
I prefer the android approach, double tap the power button and there's camera control but in iOS obviously that's for apple pay stuff.
I've found it pretty handy - useful to be able to launch the camera when it's on the way out of the pocket to take a photo. The screen/camera does take a second or two to adjust to the new light levels though.
How long can it take to swiping to the left from lock screen? You dont even have to unlock your phone. Not only its useless also located at a very bad place.
I usually have no problem with it but I used the 17 pro during the weekend on Universal Hollywood and Disneyland and it took some of the most horrible pictures of all time. Some settings didn't work. RAW videos had one file corrupt on me using an external drive. I'm at a loss. Waking it from the camera button it's rough, and for some reason it keep focusing on aperture rather than zooming it. I'm not going to lie the 8x zoom was amazing when I used it but damn man, a lot of pictures came out blurry thinking the stabilization would had work
That is indeed the function as far back as at least the iPhone 14 Pro that I just upgraded from. Double click the sleep/awake button to activate touchless pay. THAT is a good implementation to me. Exceedingly easy to pay for things with a minimum of effort...when I bother to pull my phone out. Double click the button on my Apple watch and hold my wrist up to the reader. Done. Doesn't get any easier or simpler than that.Lol you can't be serious
The camera control button has led to so many random pictures...I hate it. Time to explore the settings and set it to double click.
For those of you struggling with the camera control button, I got y’all. Here’s a good video going over the basics:
Pay attention to what she’s doing here! I promise you’ll get it in a few tries friends 💪
Pay attention to what she’s doing here! I promise you’ll get it in a few tries friends 💪
I thought that, too. So, I took of my TW case and the experience was the same. I Googled the issue and via a YouTube video, I realized that the options in settings for it to work was toggled off. Once I toggled those on, it works as expected, with or without the case. See screenshot. You can also go into the Accessibility option at the bottom of this screen to fine tune. Perhaps this is your issue, as well?
Yeah, but the Touch Bar took keys away for that abomination. Camera control is just extra.
Sometimes, it’s just a second or two too long. Annoyingly, sometimes my phone just refuses to swipe to the camera and I miss a picture.
Did you read the examples I gave? I thought it was clear? Taking up your phone from your pocket and fumble with tapping the screen and then tapping the screen button for camera app (sometimes it will fail first time due to whatever reason and you need to fumble more) get the app up and sorry now you missed that golden photage bc of all that hassle.
Now I can start the camera while taking the phone out of my pocket or bag in one smooth go.
Even a nano second counts in moments with animals and nature (or like small kids etc). If you don’t photograph that type of motives then you probably can’t understand what the problem is for people like me🤷🏽♀️
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When I gave my mom my iPhone 16 Pro two days ago and tried to teach her how to use the camera button, she just told me "oh I can do all of that on the screen, it's way faster", and asked me to turn the button off.
She's 68, by the way.
She's 68, by the way.