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Gurman: iPhone 16's Capture Button Will Be Used for Taking Video

HobeSoundDarryl said:
A quicker "record video" option seems like a good thing to me. Conceptually, this is ONE step instead of up to a few to start capturing video.

But how about either:
  • Showing an info screen to teach people that shooting video with phone in landscape means future playback that fills their TV screen instead of being a tall, thin strip of video in the middle and huge black bars to the left & right? OR
  • Advance the camera capture so that one can hold the phone vertical but shoot landscape anyway... and then crop it "skinny" if that's the desired end goal by the user? If someone actually likes all of their video shot tall & skinny, default the playback that way when they are watching with phone in portrait (an "auto crop" for playback if you will).
There seems to be no amount of oral education about this topic that can move those listening to change the well-established habit of holding the phone vertical to shoot video. So, either make a little phone effort to re-educate everyone or make the phone capture landscape when camera is held portrait so that later- when the person who shot it that way is wanting it to "fill my TV screen"- one does not have to explain yet again that they must rotate their phone when capturing the video.

Does vertical skinny have a place in rendered videos? Sure, there are some applications where it works nicely. But I bet the vast majority of video capturing people would prefer landscape default if they could only know- and then recall when they want to capture new video- to rotate that phone... or have it go ahead and capture the left & right extra when they shoot in portrait so that they can see much more when they play back on any wider screen in the future.
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As long as I can configure the video setting I wish to use with that button, better even to include photo taking on that button…
But I fear that Apple will dedicate it to spatial video which would really be a shame as it will apply only to a very small fraction of users…
98+% of photos/videos I take are landscape so I’d appreciate the button

Edited to say spatial video
 
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Populus said:
After reading several reports from Gurman (the AirPods 4, the redesigned Apple Watch X, and now this one), I suddenly realized today is Sunday, and it’s the day Gurman releases his Power On newsletter.
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Yes it is, and in it he did not write about anything important such as the yet-to-be-released M3 Macs. Just a lot of nothingburger stuff like phones and such. It might as well have been a reminiscing about what he did on vacation last summer, with pictures of course.
 
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Hey, I'm a full-size/1800 profile keyboard user (with tactile switches). Give us all the damn buttons! And there better be haptic feedback.
 
Nimoy said:
Is the current state for starting a video so cumbersome that they need to build a new physical button to make it easier? I can understand the idea of making two assignable quick-action buttons, but a dedicated video button seems a bit strange.
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Now that Jony Ive is gone, they are going crazy with the buttons. It’s like they missed them so much they are going overboard now.

But at least with a physical button for flashlight, and now one for camera, can we FINALLY remove the shortcuts from the Lock Screen?
 
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The whole point of the Mac used to be that there is one right way to do the thing. You don’t have a lot of crazy options like Windows or Android, just one that’s thought out really well.

Now we’re starting to see a lot of feature creep. How many ways will this be to open the camera now? The whole point of having one good option is that if you give people three similar but slightly different options, they’ll get confused. If the point is to be able to open the camera and quickly start recording, don’t give people three different ways to do it and in the moment make them freeze up and try to think of which one.

And if you are going to do that, at least make them optional. I don’t need:

1. Swipe to open camera
2. Lock Screen shortcut to open camera
3. Control Center shortcut to open camera
4. Default Home Screen icon to open camera
5. Optional Accessibility shortcut to open camera
6. Action Button to open camera
7. Capture button to open camera
8. Siri suggestion to open camera
9. Siri voice command to open camera

My god when you list it out like that it’s worse than the iPad lineup. I admit some are more esoteric than others but they are all real, assuming the capture button rumor is true.
 
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Lol. Give them new colors and an extra button and call it iPhone 16. Apple, you're funny.

At this point, they are running out of ideas with their slab phones. It's time to start working on something new and exciting like a flip or fold.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
Showing an info screen to teach people that shooting video with phone in landscape means future playback that fills their TV screen instead of being a tall, thin strip of video in the middle and huge black bars to the left & right?
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Why do I need to hold my phone landscape to record in this way exactly?
 
CarAnalogy said:
The whole point of the Mac used to be that there is one right way to do the thing. You don’t have a lot of crazy options like Windows or Android, just one that’s thought out really well.

Now we’re starting to see a lot of feature creep. How many ways will this be to open the camera now? The whole point of having one good option is that if you give people three similar but slightly different options, they’ll get confused. If the point is to be able to open the camera and quickly start recording, don’t give people three different ways to do it and in the moment make them freeze up and try to think of which one.

And if you are going to do that, at least make them optional. I don’t need:

1. Swipe to open camera
2. Lock Screen shortcut to open camera
3. Control Center shortcut to open camera
4. Default Home Screen icon to open camera
5. Optional Accessibility shortcut to open camera
6. Action Button to open camera
7. Capture button to open camera
8. Siri suggestion to open camera
9. Siri voice command to open camera

My god when you list it out like that it’s worse than the iPad lineup. I admit some are more esoteric than others but they are all real, assuming the capture button rumor is true.
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Actually… the genius of the original Mac OS was that Apple provided many different ways to do the same thing so that you could find a workflow that dovetails with your needs. Windows on the other hand typically had only ONE way to do a thing and if you didn’t know what that ONE thing was? You. Were. Boned.
 
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why so many camera implementations?
slide from right to right to open camera, long press right bottom button now a new button for camera?
are we going backwards to buttons?! then plz make the phone smaller then
 
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tomtad said:
Why do I need to hold my phone landscape to record in this way exactly?
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If you are serious, shoot some video both ways then watch both on your TV. You’ll quickly see the point.

If you’re being sarcastic, because we’re coming up on iPhone 16 and Apple still hasn’t made it possible to shoot landscape video even if one is holding the phone in (the natural) portrait orientation. In other words, Apple should either adapt to users or help users learn to shoot for the ultimate destination of “keeper” video (which could be done and still make it possible to watch the skinny videos if one wants on iPhone).
 
If it is not a physical button, then it is not right and time to go back to the drawing board.
My Sony phones have that button for years, which works like a camera shutter button, and still manage the same water/dust resistant level.
 
brofkand said:
When they run out of ideas, they make new colors and add useless features like more buttons.

For those following along at home, these things are your cue to skip the generation.
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Unless Apple gives the 16 Pro/Pro Max a redesign (different looking camera cluster, dynamic circle instead of an island).
 
I see many advantages having a physical shutter button:
  • ergonomic placement for taking landscape photos/video.
  • quick, reliable access, even if you're already using another app. (though this can also work with the action button)
  • A capacitive button with haptics could be a 2 stage button, like most camera shutter buttons.
  • You can adjust the volume with buttons while in the camera app
 
Jensend said:
I see many advantages having a physical shutter button:
  • ergonomic placement for taking landscape photos/video.
  • quick, reliable access, even if you're already using another app. (though this can also work with the action button)
  • A capacitive button with haptics could be a 2 stage button, like most camera shutter buttons.
  • You can adjust the volume with buttons while in the camera app
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So why not make the former mute button do more? It could be context sensitive and have up to three “press states” without making it capacitive.
 
So wait, there are going to be 5 nearly-identical buttons littering the frame of the iPhone?

I remember when handing an iPhone to someone was magical; they hit the home button and were off to the races. Get lost? Home button. Want to wake it up? Home button. Set it down for a few minutes and it's asleep.

Now it's - here, click that button. The right one. No the upper-right one. Volume is on the left. No it's the middle; the top isn't volume. It's action, like it's anything. Forget it. Volume down is the bottom. On the left. Get a video of the kids! On the right! And you turned it off...

That's an absolutely ridiculous, backwards, de-evolution of intuitive design.

:rolleyes:

Pretty soon we're just going to go insane and add TouchID to the power button or something...
 
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