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Scanning QR Codes With Your iPhone Is About to Get Easier in iOS 17
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There is in the Photos app. Just tap and hold the code and it should work.
Yes! I have hated the way the camera app handles QR codes since Apple made the change in iOS 13. I get why they did, to make it more obvious that the little link showing up is related to the QR code being scanned, but someone really didn't take into consideration that, no matter how steady one's hand is, the phone is going to move, and thus the camera will move, and thus the stupid little QR code link will start dancing across the whole screen.
When Apple releases iOS 17 in the fall, anyone who tends to use their iPhone's camera to scan QR codes can expect to find the process a little easier, thanks to a small but significant change coming in Apple's latest mobile operating system.
Apple first introduced iPhone Camera app support for QR code scanning in iOS 11. Back then, the URL link that the QR code generated would appear as though it was a push notification at the top of the screen.
Perhaps because this implementation was inelegant or confusing for some users, Apple in iOS 13 decided to redesign QR code scanning so that the link appeared as a yellow button within the camera viewfinder itself. However, in doing so, it created a new problem: The button would rove around in the viewfinder if the camera lens was also in motion, which made tapping it even more tricky than before.
Thankfully, in iOS 17, Apple has made another small, and this time welcome, change that improves the situation immeasurably. Now when you scan a QR code, the link button automatically appears at the bottom of the Camera interface. So instead of chasing the dancing link around the viewfinder, you can simply tap its fixed location above the shutter button.
In fact, there is a way you can get the QR code link to behave in a similar manner in iOS 16: As soon as you move the camera so that the QR code is no longer within the shot, it should drop to the bottom of the viewfinder and stay there. Still, when iOS 17 arrives later this year, you'll no longer need to perform this additional action to successfully tame an itinerant link.
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Only QR. Of course Apple picked the least used of 'barcodes' out there to add baked in support.
Finally! That floating button to link was the worst UI flummox I had seen from Apple in some time.
It's in Control Center on your phone. It's called Code Scanner. You can add it to your Control Center so you just swipe down and it's there.
The question should be why they didn’t do it like this from the beginning? Apple’s proud of their software intuitiveness. They shouldn’t have to correct it a year later.It's not much different as now. If you hold your iPhone in front of an QR code, and right after that remove it, the link will go to the bottom for you to press. The only difference I see now, is that it will go to the bottom right away. Easier, sure
I love that Apple continues to make small changes and adaptations like this. The work is never done…
Now if we could just click links in QR codes in previously taken or shared photos and documents…
I've actually opened a photo on one device and grabbed the QR code by pointing a second device at it, on occasion. It's about as elegant as it sounds.
Of course QR Code must be supported.
But it does not prevent from supporting the also very common Data Matrix (GS1 standard, 2D-Doc, etc.) and Aztec (railways tickets, etc.) symbologies.