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The iPhone 16 is Getting a New Button: Here's What It Can Do
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All very good, but you have 911 wrong, it needs to be "... --- ...". 😉
Shouldn’t this say Apple “has” put the button on the right side of the phone? These phones are already being manufactured for release next month.
I've never experienced that. As long as my iPhone detects that I'm holding it, it has never automatically powered off. Whether making a photograph or just holding and using it normally (email, Safari, etc.)
You might want to check your phone's settings. Or... if your phone is automatically shutting off while it's in your hands, contact Apple for assistance.
"So if you get someone to use your phone to take a picture of you, and they accidentally hit the the power button and turn the screen off, you have to log back in for them and start again."
If the person has used an iPhone before they know where the power button is. And that it takes a number of pounds of force to turn it off - by design. It doesn't happen accidentally. If they've never used a phone before to take a picture, it would be good to advise them how to release the "shutter."
Woohoo.......it's a camera
Multiple rumors have suggested that the iPhone 16 models are going to have an all-new button that's designed to make it easier to capture photos when the devices are held in landscape mode.
Apple calls the button the Capture Button internally, and it is going to be one of the most advanced buttons that's been introduced to date with support for multiple gestures and the ability to respond to pressure. Here's everything the button will be able to do, according to rumors:
The ability to autofocus with a light press on the button will be a gesture that DSLR camera owners are used to, as this is often how you autofocus when using a high-end camera.
- Lightly press on the button to autofocus while capturing an image or video.
- Press harder on the button to take a photo.
- Swipe left and right on the button to zoom in and out.
- There may also be a gesture for switching between photo mode and video mode, similar to how you can capture a video with a press and swipe in the iPhone camera app.
Apple plans to put the button on the right side of the iPhone, in the space where the mmWave antenna is on iPhones that are sold in the United States. The mmWave antenna will be moving to the left side of the device to make space.
The Capture Button has been depicted in CAD renders and dummy models of all four iPhone devices, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman this week suggested that there is a possibility that it will only be available on the Pro models.
With the Capture Button, Apple will be able to encourage users to take images and videos captured in landscape orientation, which are better viewed on the Vision Pro headset.
Along with a Capture Button, the iPhone 16 models will feature slightly bigger displays, a new A18 chip that supports Apple Intelligence, and 8GB RAM for all models, which is necessary to power Apple's AI models. For more on what's expected, make sure to check out our iPhone 16 roundup.
Article Link: The iPhone 16 is Getting a New Button: Here's What It Can Do
Astonishing, isn't it.
Next thing you know people will be going 3rd order (ie, non-linear) when TV's ship with remote controls. It will mark the end of civilization as we know it.
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There’s a difference between being able to do something and doing it efficiently and well.
That’s Human-Computer-Interaction 101 and frankly why prosumers have tons of buttons and consoles focused on buttons to do things far more efficiently than what they CAN do without.
That’s common knowledge by prosumers.
It only makes sense a prosumer devices slowly evolves to do this as much as mass manufacturing limitations supports.
I personally am excited being a user of high-end DSLRs and it a fan of how limited the button options are with my iPhone Pros.
The action button I would very much line freed up with or enhanced by a more useful button that supports the capabilities this article outlines
…More nuanced gestures and touch controls are staples in digital capture beyond phones for years like high-end DSLRs
Features don’t appeal to everyone, and power users have certainly used the feature more than that + Apple has research budget and staff to make more informed decisions based on much more people than your anecdotal accounts
We already have the Action Button, I don't see much of a point. Just integrate all these photography features into that, no need to make an iPhone even more complicated.
Partly why I'm sort of glad I still have an older iPhone. No weird, obscure, and honestly useless extra buttons.
This is F*cking Hilarious!!! I logged in to Macrumors JUST to laugh and respond to this! Best comment ever!
until history makes the full circle and humanity will get the first-ever iPhone with a keyboard!
The iBlackBerry! 🤣until history makes the full circle and humanity will get the first-ever iPhone with a keyboard!
It looks like I’m one of the few people looking forward to this new button 😂
Lots of likes on a [apparently sarcasm] comment that makes zero sense to me: "so we’re back to adding buttons now?" Please, one of the 30 folks liking on this tell me why back to adding buttons now should be denigrated with sarcasm.
The iPhone camera [which is a spectacular example of modern technology at its best] has had a terrible UI forever. A new shutter release button in a likely much better location makes nothing but good sense if it works, which is likely.
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Those who do not look forward to the new shutter release probably do not attempt any kind of serious image capture. Or at least not think about the ergonomics of it all.