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iOS 17.1 Beta 3 Prevents Action Button From Activating the Camera or Flashlight in a Pocket
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understandable. I can see myself in a scenario like that too.
I don’t think Apple even has a first party toggle to sync mute, probably next iOS. But they added a new shortcut action that you can build to sync all devices (but Mac) to mute together.
If I had this iPhone, I would have auto mute for my school and work.
It would be nicer if when you press the button to mute, it would also ask you if you wanna mute all devices in the dynamic island.
People demanded the camera and flash on the Lock Screen. Double tapping for a camera seems stupid to me. The thing is about the camera and flash, I’ll use them like I used them before. Even if I don’t, being where they have been for the last 10 years will make no difference to me.
People will always complain. Meh.
This is what happens when users keep demanding new hardware “features” … you run out of ideas and start breaking things that weren’t broken in the first place. Removing the very useful and functional mute switch and replacing it with a button that accidentally triggers things in Your pocket. Wow. Great innovating there.
I wonder how many of these unintended Action Button clicks are from phones in cases vs. those sans case. I don’t have a case on my 15 Pro and have yet to experience an Action Button misfire.
The iOS update I’m hoping for, is one that brings multi-click functionality to Action Button. That almost seems a given in that they “saved” as a nice bullet point in a future iOS 17 update. We’ll see.
The iOS update I’m hoping for, is one that brings multi-click functionality to Action Button. That almost seems a given in that they “saved” as a nice bullet point in a future iOS 17 update. We’ll see.
It was bad enough when the iPad lost its mute switch (as I madly scramble to hit full volume down when it blasts out at full volume because the switches change position based on orientation), but why remove it for an action button on the iphone. Surely they could have added an action button and left the mute switch as is.......
Let’s face it, this was innovation for innovation’s sake.
The old button was just fine and the switch felt good and never caused any issue.
Now they’ve released a half-assed solution and it’s not an improved over what we had.
What they’ve could have done at the very least is make it more ‘smart’, such as allowing a half-press that would bring up a quick menu with a max of 4 customizable actions, versus a full press that would trigger a customizable action instantly.
Or they could have experiment with double press to trigger that quick menu.
Now I have to select a ‘torch’ or ‘camera’. I want both, or else it’s too limited anyway and I’m fine just sticking with a mute switch anyway.
The old button was just fine and the switch felt good and never caused any issue.
Now they’ve released a half-assed solution and it’s not an improved over what we had.
What they’ve could have done at the very least is make it more ‘smart’, such as allowing a half-press that would bring up a quick menu with a max of 4 customizable actions, versus a full press that would trigger a customizable action instantly.
Or they could have experiment with double press to trigger that quick menu.
Now I have to select a ‘torch’ or ‘camera’. I want both, or else it’s too limited anyway and I’m fine just sticking with a mute switch anyway.
If they added a skin sensor - one of those who detect skin proximity - the problem would be instantly solved for all sort of buttons.
Despite the location I find the button very useful, especially last time when I was holding my cat with one hand on the couch and I want to take a photo of it. Haha.
I never touched the mute switch. It’s always muted. I’m okay if Apple just simply remove the button but now they gave us one programmable button, how is it not good?
(By the way I like you calling it the torch instead of flashlight 😆👍)
Great, so I’ll have to make a shortcut to get the flashlight to accidentally come on. I hate needing to take extra steps to make my accidents easier!
you would have thought they would have tested these features before releasing it. Simple use case scenario's.
The action button can still activate the camera while in my pocket. No matter. I've never accidentally pressed and held it while the phone was in my pocket.
I mean, which software company doesn’t like developing their software like Internet explorer? When legal action at foot, they can just say “sorry, the cost of fixing those is too damn high and we don’t want to raise the product price by ten fold”.
To be fair, that switch on my iPhone XS Max has switched to alarm position without my notice too.
The position of the action button is inconvenient. It should be right above or right below the power button.
So much for attention to detail. Though they do get a lot of things right, but I'm seeing more and more of these little 'hiccups' in the last few years.
While I love the old mute switch design, I mostly used it as a fidget toy since I've never needed to bring my phone out of silent mode. I don't know anyone else around me who still have their ringer on either.
Sort of funny that around me it's the opposite. And ever since the action button on the 15 I've asked friends and family if they mute their phone. Oh well.