'Require Screen On' Setting Launches The Camera App Even When the Screen Is Off (17 PM)

[jennyp]

I set my iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera Control (Settings > Camera > Camera Control) to launch the Apple Camera app with a double click, but only when the screen is on (by toggling on the setting 'Require Screen On').

However, even when the display is asleep (by pressing the top right button for instance to turn off the display), the Camera app launches with a double click of the camera Control button.

If I set the Camera Control to launch the camera with a single click, then with the display asleep, a single click just wakes it. But I don't want to use a single click, and in any case, if I understand these controls correctly, that shouldn't happen anyway.

Is this a bug or do I have a problem unit?

Can anyone else tell me what happens with theirs, with the settings configured as I describe?

 

[VineRider]

Mine does the same thing. 17 Pro

 

[jennyp]

Mine does the same thing. 17 Pro

So it's a bug? It's clearly not behaving as it should..

 

[VineRider]

So it's a bug? It's clearly not behaving as it should..

Seems like a bug to me

 

[jennyp]

Seems like a bug to me

I thought I might have a duff unit, but if yours is doing the same ... I wonder if this is something that can/will be fixed? Anyone else see this?

 

[jennyp]

Well this bug completely falsifies the whole Macrumors article, "End Accidental Camera Control Presses", because 'Require Screen On' just doesn't work.

Set Camera Control to launch the camera on one click, with "Require Screen On" enabled. Make an "accidental" click with the phone in your pocket (the display being obviously off) by pressing the button and the camera comes on. Another press (easily done) — or a volume up/down press — and a photo is taken. And maybe another and another. It'll happen even if your phone's upside-down on a table, display off. If your phone happens to be on silent, you'll never know about it until you look at your camera roll.

If it's set for two clicks, then just two accidental clicks will start the process, with further single clicks taking photos.

And many accidental photos will take up the bandwidth of whatever network you're using to upload these useless photos to iCloud, not to mention taking up the storage space there.

I thought it might be my new unit, but it looks like the whole "thoughtful new feature" of "Require Screen On" just doesn't work.