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How to Get the Most Out of the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button
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Has it ever been determined definitively that leaving your iPhone charging after it’s at 100% zaps battery longevity?
Steve Jobs hated external physical buttons. He saw each one as a necessary evil. The fewer the better. (None would be ideal.)
I can’t know how he’d feel about a new physical button replacing the mute toggle (which showed state), but I surmise he’d hate it.
(Also, it’s getting kind of humorous to see all the attention and voluminous discussion this little button is receiving — almost as if this button alone is a reason to upgrade to an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max!)
Seriously guys, isn’t this just a button that can be customized with any action you want? Wtf is with all this ****?
Yeah, checking the current WiFi network is the quickest most efficient and accurate way to determine location when inside typically.
First touch screens got rid of (almost) all the buttons.
If the action button becomes a hit, people will want a second one... and then a third one.
We're slowly coming full circle.
If the action button becomes a hit, people will want a second one... and then a third one.
We're slowly coming full circle.
they should make a grid of physical action buttons, i’m thinking like 3 or 4 rows of them, and each one could input a different letter in the alphabet when pressed 🤯
I think I should’ve been more clear. I meant you should be able to use what is currently the Siri/power button as the action button. And you can still use it as a power button by holding down a volume button, as you currently do.
Neon lights all around and on the back!
Seriously, though, it’s a source of debate whether these reports are even true, but there were reportedly a holdout or two at Apple who insisted while the iPhone was under development that it have a physical keyboard “like a BlackBerry.” The engineering team insisted on full multitouch instead. Whatever the case, a physical keyboard has never been part of any iPhone. Then, of course, the entire industry followed Apple’s lead (as usual…).
For example, below is the first Samsung Galaxy (Android) phone:
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Don’t forget a row of Function “buttons”!
And pressing different combinations of buttons at once performs different actions. We’d have thousands of actions! 😍
You need this on your phone for the second action to work! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actions/id1586435171
So for those who have action buttons already... how does it work when the phone is in your pocket, full purse or similar environments?
If you mute it does it stay muted or it's a gamble?
It's fine for on/off screen and volume up/down because those can't do too much harm. But for mute, I don't know...
If you mute it does it stay muted or it's a gamble?
It's fine for on/off screen and volume up/down because those can't do too much harm. But for mute, I don't know...
It seems pretty unlikely to get accidental presses. It’s a nice solid button, and you have to hold it for a second to initiate an action. Not impossible, but unlikely.
Seems they don't like that it is out of place and doesn't match the rest of the look of the OS.
If that screen matches the whole OS due to a major redesign would you still not like it?
I for one, want a major redesign. I like change
I’d like to see Apple open up contextual short press functions to developers. It makes sense for a long press to be a universal function because it works even when the phone is locked, and requiring a long press prevents accidental activations when it’s in your pocket. But what if, while your favorite music app is open, a quick press of the action button opened the share sheet for the song that’s currently playing? Or when on your favorite social media app, a quick press launches the posting interface? Or, when on Teams, a quick press launched you straight into the Team you care most about so you could instantly get back to it from whatever depths in teams you’ve found yourself in? I guess I just can’t help but get excited about the idea of saving tons of taps to jumpstart into the specific functions within specific apps I use the most. Maybe someday we’ll get there.
how does this work...
is it like creating a dictionary or a Json file or something else (neither of which I have worked with in shortcuts so anything will be a hurdle for me)
You need to download the "Actions" app to get it to work. That app gives you more options for shortcuts that the default shortcuts app does not give.
It works incredibly well. I mute and unmute my phone multiple times a day so I never changed it from toggling mute once I got the phone. Now that I have the option for the button to perform different functions based on orientation the button is going to actually be useful. Great shortcut idea.
If that screen matches the whole OS due to a major redesign would you still not like it?
I for one, want a major redesign. I like change
No, I wouldn't, because the screen is made up of a very high resolution photo. If they changed all screens to be like that, it would massively bloat the size of the IOS installation, eating up storage space on the phone. It would be an underhanded way of making people buy phones with more storage when it's not necessary. Kind of like how they insist in defaulting to live photos, which use more space, unless you specifically change the setting to remember that you turned them off.