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 ...

Unless you've gone looking in System Settings, you may not be aware that the Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 can be set to do other functions besides set up and take a picture.

Like the iPhone 16 series, all of Apple's latest iPhone 17 models include a new Camera Control button (located on the lower right-hand side when holding the phone in portrait mode). The button aims to ...

On the iPhone 16 series of smartphones, the Camera Control is a capacitive button on the lower-right side of the phone. It allows you to quickly launch the camera, acts as a shutter button, and helps ...

I was keen on using the Camera Control button when it first debuted on the iPhone 16 Pro. But in over a year of use, it caused more accidental swipes and presses than its intended use cases to take ...

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 ...

The Camera Control packs in a lot of features, and they’re a little fiddly. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac The new Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 lineup opens the Camera app, takes ...