iPhone 16/Plus New camera button actually is a button?

[mazz0]

I’m a bit confused by the new camera button. In the video it looked like it actually is a button, ie it moves separately from the frame around it (as opposed to the ”fake” button that was the taptic Touch ID home button).

If that’s the case, then what’s the point in all the fancy engineering including pressure sensors and tapitic feedback - why not just make a normal mechanical button, just like on the cameras it’s supposed to emulate? Seems like pointless overengineering.

 

[winxmac]

The Camera Control is a physical button with a touch sensitive surface...

 

[chown33]

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Among other things, it can sense motion of a finger (swipe). I know of no mechanical way of sensing that, unless it involves something like a rotary shaft encoder.

 

[klasma]

It's a "fake", i.e. taptic button.

Edit: Apparently it's both.

 

[NotApplicable]

It's a "fake", i.e. taptic button.

Incorrect. It physically moves. AND has Taptic response.

 

[klasma]

Incorrect. It physically moves. AND has Taptic response.

Source please.

 

[C7 POWER]

Source please.

Well, what’s your source for knowing it’s haptic? Lol Seems we are all assuming here

 

[NotApplicable]

Well, what’s your source for knowing it’s haptic? Lol Seems we are all assuming here

No, its clearly described in the keynote as well as many hands-on overviews.

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max hands-on: don’t call it a shutter button

Bigger than ever.

www.theverge.com

“Let’s start with Camera Control, which is a physical button — it depresses into the case ever so slightly, with additional haptic feedback from Apple’s Taptic Engine to make it feel like a chunkier click.”

 

[klasma]

Well, what’s your source for knowing it’s haptic? Lol Seems we are all assuming here

The hands-on here says it doesn't move:

 

[C7 POWER]

No, its clearly described in the keynote as well as many hands-on overviews.

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max hands-on: don’t call it a shutter button

Bigger than ever.

www.theverge.com

“Let’s start with Camera Control, which is a physical button — it depresses into the case ever so slightly, with additional haptic feedback from Apple’s Taptic Engine to make it feel like a chunkier click.”

So there it is, it’s a physical button 🙂

 

[klasma]

No, its clearly described in the keynote as well as many hands-on overviews.

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max hands-on: don’t call it a shutter button

Bigger than ever.

www.theverge.com

“Let’s start with Camera Control, which is a physical button — it depresses into the case ever so slightly, with additional haptic feedback from Apple’s Taptic Engine to make it feel like a chunkier click.”

I suspect the "ever so slightly" is an illusion created by the taptic engine, like with the Home button since the iPhone 7.

 

[NotApplicable]

I suspect the "ever so slightly" is an illusion created by the taptic engine, like with the Home button since the iPhone 7.

You’re incorrect.

 

[Rogifan]

Did Apple say it was a mechanical button? I thought maybe the reason they called it Camera ‘control’ (whereas with the action button they do refer to it as a button) is because it’s not actually a button. 🤷‍♀️

 

[klasma]

You’re incorrect.

I doubt it, and you haven't provided any conclusive evidence for it. There were also people swearing the haptic Home button was moving when in fact it didn't.

 

[NotApplicable]

“A tactile switch enables the click experience”

Accompanied by a video of the button moving.

And like I said, MANY hands-on reviews clearly indicating it’s a physical button.

Amazing how unresourceful some people are @klasma

 

[NotApplicable]

Further evidence: https://www.engadget.com/mobile/sma...ra-control-button-feel-so-real-191406863.html

And I quote
“the camera control is a real, depressable button”

 

[klasma]

Here's another one, "not a physical press button":

@NotApplicable: "Click" doesn't mean that it's physical.

 

[NotApplicable]

Here's another one, "not a physical press button":

@NotApplicable: "Click" doesn't mean that it's physical.

The term “tactile switch” is very indicative of physical movement. As is the video, both sourced from Apple itself. And the two additional sources I provided are you know, actual publications.

Give it up. It’s a physical button. With additional Taptic feedback. As I stated originally.

QED.

 

[klasma]

Further evidence: https://www.engadget.com/mobile/sma...ra-control-button-feel-so-real-191406863.html

And I quote
“the camera control is a real, depressable button”

Okay, that one convinces me. It's interesting that they combined haptic press (not just touch) with physical press.

 

[NewYorkRanger]

Jeez, a bunch of you need to chill out. Considering even journalists and YouTubers who have had hands-on are confused and there are videos and articles saying both it is physical and it isn’t, says it all, no need to act like someone us saying Jesus is real or not lol.

 

[hch720]

Either way it’s a stupid addition to the iPhone. With the useless stuff they’re adding we should be able to “build our own iPhone” like you can build your own vehicles on car websites

 

[Knowimagination]

Either way it’s a stupid addition to the iPhone. With the useless stuff they’re adding we should be able to “build our own iPhone” like you can build your own vehicles on car websites

How is it a stupid addition to the iPhone? From a photography standpoint it is one of the coolest features I have seen on a smartphone related to photography especially when they add the partial press to focus lock like an actual camera.

 

[baummer]

Either way it’s a stupid addition to the iPhone. With the useless stuff they’re adding we should be able to “build our own iPhone” like you can build your own vehicles on car websites

Let me guess. You’re also one of the people saying Apple doesn’t innovate.