iPhone 15 Pro Max Action button is dumb with one action.

[Gix1k]

The beauty of that slider was to mute phone quickly and effortlessly. Mute should ALWAYS be an action there. Any and everything else should be a double press or something. Plus now I have to learn a haptic feel when phone is in my pocket to know if it’s muted or not.

 

[Banglazed]

I do hope they incorporate some sort of quick tap function too. Currently set the action button to launch the camera since I can access the silent mode toggle in the control center.

 

[zach-coleman]

The beauty of that slider was to mute phone quickly and effortlessly. Mute should ALWAYS be an action there. Any and everything else should be a double press or something. Plus now I have to learn a haptic feel when phone is in my pocket to know if it’s muted or not.

Mute has always been completely useless to me. I would love a second action but I do not agree one should always be set to mute.

 

[Gix1k]

I do hope they incorporate some sort of quick tap function too. Currently set the action button to launch the camera since I can access the silent mode toggle in the control center.

But why camera? There’s two ways to access that. Just asking

 

[Gix1k]

Mute has always been completely useless to me. I would love a second action but I do not agree one should always be set to mute.

Can you explain useless? You never walked into a meeting, quickly mute. Go to a school, class, church, dinner, graduation, movie….literally anything that you need to mute your phone with literally no thought. That switch action, up/down could be done in any situation and you’d know immediately what was happening.

 

[OVOElias]

Can you explain useless? You never walked into a meeting, quickly mute. Go to a school, class, church, dinner, graduation, movie….literally anything that you need to mute your phone with literally no thought. That switch action, up/down could be done in any situation and you’d know immediately what was happening.

Useless as in he probably always has his phone on mute, as most people probably do 😝

 

[Banglazed]

I find myself using the camera more often to quickly snap a photo than the mute switch. I hardly use mute other than in theater or some social event. I have my ringer volume on the lowest so it’s not disruptive.

 

[powerbook911]

I don't want to give up mute either, so it's not particularly helpful to me. I don't mind that it changed from the slider though. This way works fine for me. In fact, I think I prefer it.

Maybe someday they will add a second action.

 

[deleon]

But why camera? There’s two ways to access that. Just asking

For me, I use the action button for selfie camera and of course the Lock Screen has the other way to access the main camera. This way I can quickly access either way of using the cameras.

 

[St. Germain]

Or assign multiple actions to it depending on whether it’s face up or face down… https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/22/current-action-button-shortcut

 

[Ryan1524]

I’ve set mine to behave differently based on orientation. Landscape launches video mode, portrait launches normal photo mode.

Some people have also added Focus mode, location, or time conditionals to drive different behaviours.

If/when Apple adds double/triple press, this is going to get even more fun.

 

[PegasusTenma]

Can you explain useless? You never walked into a meeting, quickly mute. Go to a school, class, church, dinner, graduation, movie….literally anything that you need to mute your phone with literally no thought. That switch action, up/down could be done in any situation and you’d know immediately what was happening.

Everyone’s situation is different, but in my case I take out the brand new iPhone from the box, switch the mute button on and it stays like that until the next iPhone I buy. I still get vibration notifications on my apple watch.

so having that button do literally anything else is great for me, for example.

 

[Larabee119]

my phone is always 100% on mute and I don't really want to accidentally switch on my ring tone. So, getting rid of the mute switch is a great win for me.
I set mine to open the door and turn on the lights and AC when I get home. It's pretty cool.

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Control Center or Assistive Touch. I don’t use the mute switch, volume buttons, or power button.

 

[maratus]

I set it up to launch Pro Camera, because I enjoy photos that actually look like photos, and not overprocessed plastic trash. However, I pixel peep like a mf and I also expect my phone to outperform medium format Fujifilm GF system.

Do I wish that there were double tap and single tap configuration options? Hell yes. I’d configure double tap to launch another custom camera app, and a single tap will be a shortcut to randomly crappost on macrumors.

 

[Supermallet]

Or assign multiple actions to it depending on whether it’s face up or face down… https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/22/current-action-button-shortcut

I love the idea behind these shortcuts, but I hate that if you choose to map the action button to a shortcut (or any action that isn’t explicitly the camera action in the settings), you lose the functionality of the action button as a shutter button in the camera. I wish there was a setting I could toggle to tell the phone to always treat the action button as a shutter button in the camera app, regardless of what the action button is mapped to outside the camera app.

 

[cyanite]

But why camera? There’s two ways to access that. Just asking

Neither of them work reliably for me, especially when it has to be quick. One problem is that the always in screen looks like the Lock Screen, but you can’t swipe for the camera. Another is that the swipe has to be pretty precisely sideways in my experience.

Can you explain useless?

For me it’s because I have an Apple Watch and always (except some special cases) have my phone on mute.

 

[nawoo]

Action button is awesome. I set it to youtube app so i can easily access watch youtube anytime i want.

Maybe i should set it to Reddit as well.

If i'm travelling, i will set it to Translate.

 

[boss.king]

Can you explain useless? You never walked into a meeting, quickly mute. Go to a school, class, church, dinner, graduation, movie….literally anything that you need to mute your phone with literally no thought. That switch action, up/down could be done in any situation and you’d know immediately what was happening.

You don’t need to put your phone on mute if it's always on mute already.

 

[Night Spring]

This article explains how to create an action menu in Shortcuts. While the article envisions using this with the Apple watch Ultra, it also works with the action button on the iPhone Pro 15

This is the ultimate use of your Apple Watch Ultra's Action button

The Apple Watch Ultra has a button you can program to do whatever you want -- and I've found a way to get the most out of it.

www.zdnet.com

 

[Wizec]

For Apple to be able to recognize a fast click or double click of the action button would require them to double the neural engine performance yet again on the iPhone 18 with a 1nm process node

/S

 

[MrPaperTrain]

Like everyone else here, my phone is on mute most of the time. For me, the action button is a good replacement that gives me more control over my phone. I’ve set it to an action menu with some of the commands I use on a regular basis. I wouldn’t call it innovation, but a nice thing to have on an iPhone.

 

[xxBlack]

Like everyone else here, my phone is on mute most of the time. For me, the action button is a good replacement that gives me more control over my phone. I’ve set it to an action menu with some of the commands I use on a regular basis. I wouldn’t call it innovation, but a nice thing to have on an iPhone.

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which app is that?

 

[FSMBP]

which app is that?

That is Apple’s Shortcuts app. This is the best video about using it for the Action Button and how to write the shortcut

 

[adrianlondon]

Short-press: whatever you want with short haptic feedback
Longer-press: Mute with double haptic feedback pulses
Even-longer-press: Unmute with long haptic feedback

Or make all three customisable. I've not put much thought into this (obviously!) but neither has Apple