Zoom valley?

[Yandawg]

Does anyone know how to make the zoom just go from .5 to 1 to 2 to 5 without the digital zoom as an option on the 16 pro? I am specifically talking about swiping on the new camera control button. I am pretty sure I saw it on one of the videos.
Thanks!

 

[digitalprty]

Apparently I can’t upload videos. There’s an option for “camera” when you double-press that allows you to do this.

 

[chown33]

I think what you're looking for is described in this How To, under the heading "Camera Control Optical Zoom".

iPhone 16 Pro: How to Use 5x Optical Zoom

Both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max feature a tetraprism lens system capable of up to 5x optical zoom. That's an improvement over last year's smaller iPhone 15 Pro model, which was limited to 3x zoom. The Telephoto lens on the iPhone 16 Pro models features Apple's most advanced camera...

www.macrumors.com

There are additional How To's on the camera features:

How Tos on MacRumors

www.macrumors.com

EDIT
Here's Apple's support page on the Camera Control:

Use the Camera Control on iPhone

Use the Camera Control to quickly open Camera and access common camera settings.

support.apple.com

 

[Yandawg]

Thanks everyone very much for the comments and links but I don’t think it answers my question. I just want to swipe on the camera control button and switch between lenses. I don’t want to swipe and have it end up on 2.7,3.4,4.7 or any number that doesn’t represent just using the optical lens without digital zoom enabled. Again, thank you chown33 and digitalprty for trying to help out!

 

[chown33]

Apparently, if you "flick" the control, it switches between the fixed telephoto steps.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/in-praise-of-camera-control.2437680/post-33432023

 

[Yandawg]

Apparently, if you "flick" the control, it switches between the fixed telephoto steps.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/in-praise-of-camera-control.2437680/post-33432023

Oh wow! Thank you so much for letting me know!!!

 

[mgscheue]

Apparently, if you "flick" the control, it switches between the fixed telephoto steps.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/in-praise-of-camera-control.2437680/post-33432023

Oh, nice! Thank you.

 

[digitalprty]

Thanks everyone very much for the comments and links but I don’t think it answers my question. I just want to swipe on the camera control button and switch between lenses. I don’t want to swipe and have it end up on 2.7,3.4,4.7 or any number that doesn’t represent just using the optical lens without digital zoom enabled. Again, thank you chown33 and digitalprty for trying to help out!

Two of the options in the double-click menu are “zoom” and “camera.” “Zoom” is the one that has all the “in-between” values for zooming (like you mentioned above 2.7, 3.4, 4.7). The “Camera” option only has the .5x, 1x, 2x and 5x lenses to scroll through.

 

[Yandawg]

Two of the options in the double-click menu are “zoom” and “camera.” “Zoom” is the one that has all the “in-between” values for zooming (like you mentioned above 2.7, 3.4, 4.7). The “Camera” option only has the .5x, 1x, 2x and 5x lenses to scroll through.

Holy cow. This is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you so much!!!