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 that 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

 

[Allen_Wentz]

It’s not

?? Hold the iPhone Pro in landscape mode (horizontal) with two hands; your left thumb under the bottom of the iPP on the left and your right thumb under the bottom of the iPP on the right; your left index and middle finger on the top of the iPP on the left and your right index and middle finger on the top of the iPP on the right. Your right index finger should about be on the camera control button for shutter release. This is about the same way ILC cameras (DSLRs, etc.) have been being properly held for decades.

Learning the muscle memory of that position will almost always improve one's smartphone camera photography. Allow that hand position to also bring muscle memory to breathing and the intention of a stable platform for a thoughtful slow shutter release.

That intention can be further reinforced if one uses [my personal preferred method] voice shutter release. With Voice Control turned On in Settings the camera shutter will release if one quietly says "turn the volume up" to the phone. There is a slight delay of ~1 second, which helps one learn to hold the phone maximum stable as the shutter releases.

 

[The Game 161]

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

Most likely most use it to open the camera so it likely is used a lot