Snapping a quick photo on your iPhone can be tricky. You have to open the Camera app, set the zoom, exposure, and other controls, and then try to take the picture. By then, the subject of your ...

Wondering what the new button on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro can do? Much more than take photos. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to ...

Almost everything is easy to do on a smartphone these days. Until I want to take a picture. Suddenly, I’m juggling my iPhone to unlock the device—my fingers are fumbling around for the right ...

Commentary: Was it supposed to be the Visual Intelligence button instead? There's a lot of unrealized potential in Apple's new button that goes well beyond the camera. Patrick Holland has been a phone ...

Apple’s latest iPhone 16 series introduces a new camera control button. This button lets you quickly launch the camera, take photos, record videos, and adjust settings using capacitive touch controls.

Apple replaced the classic mute switch with the configurable Action button last year on the iPhone 15 Pro. Since day one, the Action button on my iPhone 15 Pro Max has been assigned to launching the ...

Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro (alongside new Apple Watch and AirPods models) at an action-packed press event yesterday. The company focused heavily on new AI features, but we knew quite a ...

The iPhone 16/16 Pro’s new Camera Control button is almost as polarizing as politics. Some people love it; they think it makes it easier to photograph on the fly rather than unlocking the iPhone with ...

Camera Control has the unenviable task of providing a lot of camera functionality with minimal physical real estate. Most importantly, it has to do so in a location that feels good in the hand.

The iPhone 16 is not the only recently released smartphone with a separate camera control system, as the Oppo Find X8 Pro also has a similar alternate way to interact with the camera on the side of ...

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