iPhone 18 Said to Use Simpler Camera Control Button Design

[Allen_Wentz]

Please remove it and make the phone cheaper. Who uses this button?

Photographers use the button, and there are a lot of us. The camera control button is a far better UI for photography. Unfortunately a zillion young users think the awful previous interface is what a camera UI is supposed to be, because they do not know any better.

Sorry, I know this post is patronizing, but it drives me crazy watching such poor photographic technique unnecessarily develop.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

There's something on the phone and its called a touchscreen. This button is something Apple usually doesn’t do and this is the first step toward removing it completely, but they don't want to publicly admit it yet that it flopped. It will disappear by the iPhone 19/20. It's a gimmick and exists only to differentiate the 16 and 15 models. The idea wasn't to create something that benefits the user and has useful use cases. It also shows that only old people work in high positions at Apple, because nobody takes pictures like this.

Actually, competent photographers "...takes pictures like this." Touchscreen is often (not always) a poor way to take photos. The idea was "to create something that benefits the user and has useful use cases," and it does exactly that. Look at the UI DSLRs evolved to over 100 years; think about how one would hold a smartphone camera to minimize camera movement.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

I've literally never heard a single person say they use it, or have even tried it. It's useless, Apple, just remove it.

Okay, now you have heard from at least one professional who prefers it. And I can show you the [IMO obvious] benefits to photo technique.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Butterfly keyboard, Touch Bar, camera button.

Camera button is Absolutely garbage unusable **** with non usual finger position …

Nonsense. Hold an iPhone to minimize camera shake in landscape position and the button is right under one's finger, maximum usable for shutter release.

 

[zenmacx]

Their internal polling clearly shows that consumers love it

The word gullible comes to mind. Internal poll… really?

Notice the opening sentence: “Apple is working to reduce costs”.

It does not say they’re working to improve it. Nor will they admit it’s a feature no one asked for.

What is impressive is their continued arrogance.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

I can hold the phone with two hands, steady. I don’t have to touch the screen with one hand while holding the phone with the other. Great for macro photography.

Most of the folks dissing the camera control button fail to grasp the essential photographic concept of "hold the phone with two hands, steady."

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

Nonsense. Hold an iPhone to minimize camera shake in landscape position and the button is right under one's finger, maximum usable for shutter release.

It’s not