- The iPhone 17 series could be the latest phones with a camera control button
- It is apparently because Apple discovered that people do not use it much
- But the source does not have many stories, and there are other reasons to doubt this assertion too
It is just to say that the answers to the camera control button in the iPhone 16 series were mixed. Although some users are not convinced by this addition to the iPhone, others have found a lot to like in the camera control button. But if you are in this last camp, you will be disappointed to learn that his days could be numbered.
According to Weibo Poster Ovo Baby Baby Sauce Ovo (via GSMARENA), the iPhone 17 series could be the last phones with this button, because Apple apparently told its suppliers that it would no longer order parts of the camera control button.
It is apparently because Apple found that iPhone owners do not use the button much, and that by deleting this key, the company can reduce certain costs – which could be particularly beneficial in this new era of prices.
However, I am not convinced. It is difficult to have a meaning for the number of people who use the camera control button a lot, with social media suggesting that it is a real mixture of lovers and hateful, but even if not many people use it, we doubt that Apple abandons it so quickly.
Even the MacBook Touch Bar very offbeat lasted five years before Apple abandoned it, and it is clear that some people like the camera command.
More than simple camera commands
In addition, the camera control button does more than this name suggests – it is also the gateway to visual intelligence, which is one of the features of Apple AI. Now there are other ways to access it, but they are less immediate, or forces you to switch it to the action button, which means that you cannot use it for something else.
Currently, visual intelligence itself may not seem a big problem for most people, but this is largely because the Apple Intelligence is late on the rival services of the AI. If and when it starts to catch up, visual intelligence could be something that you will often achieve, because it allows you to use AI to find out more or translate everything you look at.
It therefore seems unlikely that Apple makes such a major functionality less easily accessible – it would be like admitting not only that these camera controls are not so useful, but that visual intelligence is not either.
I cannot see Apple doing this, and it should be noted that the source that makes this assertion does not have a lot of assessment. So, until the same assertion is made by someone like Mark Gurman – who has a story of leak with Apple information – you should probably deposit this unlikely.
