Used to be that with the phone locked, a long press on the camera button woke up the phone and started recording a video. Now, that same long press while locked activates visual search. I assume this is by design..... but I find it pretty useless. Is there a way to revert to the previous behavior and start a video from a long press while locked? If there is, I was not able to find it......
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How to prevent visual search when long pressing the camera button?
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Not doing that on my iPhone 12 Pro - maybe a 16 Pro-specific feature? That or I don't understand what you're asking (also a possibility)
I may be misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure when I long-pressed the button after upgrading to 15.1 to see if Visual Intelligence was there, it only woke up my phone and didn't do anything. You have to click it to launch the Camera app, then can hold it to record video.
If you don't want to have to wake up your phone first, go to Settings -> Display & Brightness and turn off "Require Screen On". Then the first click will always launch the camera app whether the phone is awake or not.
If you don't want to have to wake up your phone first, go to Settings -> Display & Brightness and turn off "Require Screen On". Then the first click will always launch the camera app whether the phone is awake or not.
THAT was the secret sauce! At least the secret sauce that reduces the number of button presses to get the camera open. Never would have thought to look under "display and brightness" for what is really a camera button option. Thanks! Time will tell if setting that option to "off" makes the camera button more predictable.
But the title question remains...... is there a way to prevent visual search from triggering instead of starting a video recording on a long press from a locked screen?
Yeah, that would be my nuclear option
Just hoping there was a non-nuclear option. Still deciding if Apple intelligence does anything useful to me. I guess it makes Siri a little smarter......