Sigh. How often do you press it and it fails to open the camera?
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Other Remove the camera button from the 17 series
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Just because you don’t think it‘s useful doesn’t mean other people don’t find it useful. You are not the only person that buys iPhones.
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They didn’t increase it one year, the iPhone 14 has the same chip as the 13 plus one more GPU core. This (rightfully) pissed people off.
It's not only me. Watch The Verge's take on it, or most other reviewers.
Hadn’t seen the Verge’s take on it, and wasn’t aware that they were calling for complete removal of the camera button. Let’s take a look:
Hmm
For several years now on Samsung phones I've double-clicked the power button to launch the camera. So quick and convenient, and beats having to go back to the home screen to launch it. Works even if the phone is locked, so instant access to the camera.
Apple can easily add this in software for past iPhones without needing to introduce a dedicated camera button.
That’s fair enough, and a pretty good solution. It won’t work for iPhones as that is already mapped to Apple Pay, and triple click for accessibility shortcut, but a quick muscle memory camera open is something smartphones should have.
in low light it does cause blurry images, nothing this button does is better than before
It is better at opening the camera from anywhere. This is a key feature.
As for the first half of your reply, I’m just being extra sarcastic, borderline mocking the logic of OP. I too think software is the problem to make that button awkward. Button itself feels good and definitely can see it’s not made cheap or simple.I should've been more clear. The primary purpose of all of those other buttons is not photo taking. The entire reason this whole new button was added was for taking photos, and it can't really be used for anything else. It's not a multi-purpose button (yet anyway).
Personally I'm not totally against it. But so far I'm also having an issue with it being kind of awkward. Like any other hardware or physical change, I'm sure it's something we'll all get better at and get used to over the next few weeks/months.
You're stretching a bit here (trolling a bit?) just to try to prove your point.
As for the second half, the intention I guess is more or less the same.
First, his video doesn’t have much actual value other than being click bait. Second, pressing which button does the user NOT shake the phone?
Third, press the button differently maybe?
Do you eat all meals with a spork? Or have you learned the value of having more than one piece of cutlery?
Macrumors don’t like it either. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/27/the-macrumors-show-iphone-16-pro-first-impressions/
Likely because it is too stiff, and the initial implementation leaves something to be desired.
That doesn’t mean immediately remove it and anything like it from all subsequent iPhones.
That makes sense, and personally I don't think it's useless - I was looking forward to it because I take 99% of my photos horizontally. But I do think there's a case to be made that (at least for some people) it's hard to take a photo with that button without a little shake happening because you have to give a little extra squeeze to get it to register. Maybe it's just how some of us are used to holding our phones. But it definitely adds more movement than tapping the screen, and it's harder to push than the volume button (maybe a case with a camera control cover would help that). I've also found it's actually harder to reach than tapping the screen as well, so it's not as helpful as I thought it would be prior to owning the device, at least so far.
It worked well for me and I liked it. I think a double-squeeze would remove a lot of false positives.
Yeah it’s definitely an app based issue because my phone (13 mini) only has 4gb of RAM, yet certain apps (e.g.B&H Photo) will open up to the EXACT spot even weeks later, while apps like Amazon will reload in just a couple hours.
It doesn’t matter if iOS caps the RAM per app at 256MB, which is pathetic in Today’s standards, and iOS just kills an app trying to use 257MB. I think nowadays Apple allows some apps to use more RAM but still. iOS just doesn't need 2TB of RAM Because it can’t, Literally can’t, use 2TB.
If you don’t want to use the Camera Button, turn it off. Your problem is solved and many other people who want to use the new button will still have the choice.
I won't buy the 16 Pro Max since it's such a letdown, but I plan on buying the 17 Pro Max. I hope the camera button is improved by then.
I will say that more RAM is almost never a bad thing. Ironically, me browsing this very thread and switching to the camera and taking a couple of photos (via Camera Control) and then switching back to Safari sometimes caused Safari to completely reload.
I assume this is also a memory management issue as some of the apps used less recently than Safari don't need to reload and this is something I also experienced with early iOS versions on my 11 Pro back in the day (and it got better with updates), but it's an instance where more memory would've very likely helped.
Some Apple representatives say that more memory increases energy consumption and while that might be true to a certain (small) extent, I'd argue that more memory would result in fewer apps having to reload, which would actually decrease energy consumption.
But Apple probably didn't want to put more memory in their "Pro" phone than what they put in the iPad Pro (<1 TB) or entry-level MacBook Pro 🤣
Wait a second. All your criticism of the button was based on other people’s opinions?
I’m not sure how I feel about this lol