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

[adrianlondon]

Why? Your phone will work for years to come if you want it to.

Mainly because I like being on the latest iOS version. As soon as a version comes out which I can't run, I usually use that as my excuse to upgrade.

However, you're right; the 11 is working very well (on iOS 17.3 beta)

 

[brofkand]

Mainly because I like being on the latest iOS version. As soon as a version comes out which I can't run, I usually use that as my excuse to upgrade.

However, you're right; the 11 is working very well (on iOS 17.3 beta)

Faire enough but you probably have a few more years of OS support. Frankly it's remarkable how little they've moved the needle on iPhone since the 11. 5G and OLED is really it and both of those came with the 12. Sure the silicon has made huge leaps but those under-the-hood improvements are harder for normal users to notice.

 

[adrianlondon]

Faire enough but you probably have a few more years of OS support. Frankly it's remarkable how little they've moved the needle on iPhone since the 11. 5G and OLED is really it and both of those came with the 12. Sure the silicon has made huge leaps but those under-the-hood improvements are harder for normal users to notice.

If iOS 18 has big changes (such as the rumoured AI, with a Siri which might actually be smart), and the 11 doesn't support it, then that might be enough to tempt me.

5G doesn't bother me, OLED is one of those things which I don't miss having never had it, but changes in the OS and enjoying being on the betas might be Apple's smart way to get me to upgrade

 

[Hank001]

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.

Fully agree!

 

[McKaber]

Seems like a good deal of re-engineering to accomplish very little and probably very very low on anyone's Apple iPhone want list.

Windows Phone users where missing the button when switching to iPhone.

Sounds good. As long as I can remap it to open Blackmagic's Camera (video) app instead. It's pretty amazing.

Windows Phone could map the button to any app that offered Camera capabilities.

More buttons? Seems backwards. I haven’t seen people complain about accessing primary camera functions, is there an issue?

Windows Phone users where complaining.

But its nice to see after adapting Windows Phone's modern UI and a low % of its UX, Apple closes the gap to Windows Phone every year a bit more.

 

[sviato]

Windows Phone users where missing the button when switching to iPhone.


Windows Phone could map the button to any app that offered Camera capabilities.


Windows Phone users where complaining.

But its nice to see after adapting Windows Phone's modern UI and a low % of its UX, Apple closes the gap to Windows Phone every year a bit more.

Really, all 12 people who used Windows Phone 10 years ago have been complaining about it? Where?

 

[surfzen21]

Windows Phone users where missing the button when switching to iPhone.


Windows Phone could map the button to any app that offered Camera capabilities.


Windows Phone users where complaining.

But its nice to see after adapting Windows Phone's modern UI and a low % of its UX, Apple closes the gap to Windows Phone every year a bit more.

Windows phone LMAO.

Such a successful platform that the unlimited money company MS EOL'd it in January of 2020.