Unlike the Action Button they introduced last year, the Camera Control isn’t exactly a button. It’s a small touch area with pressure-sensitive sensors and haptic motors underneath that produce haptic feedback to mimic the actual click of a button. This is basically the same technology used in today’s MacBook Force Touch touchpads. It’s also covered in sapphire glass, so it should be durable as well.
How to use it varies, for example with a quick press of the button, you can now to launch the camera immediately and with a second press, take a photo. With long press video recording will start.
You have the first and last say in its use, choose what you want to do and gain complete control through sliding . For example, you can zoom in or out, adjust the strength of faux bokeh in Portrait mode, adjust exposure in pro mode, etc.
Since this is a pressure-sensitive touch area, it can be assigned different actions depending on how hard you press the button. One is also used double tap to select specific functions from the camera menu.
Later we will welcome another feature related to the shutter operation command. He will allow you lock focus and exposure and recompose your shot before taking the final photo with a harder push down.
Third-party developers are already working to make use of the button Camera Control in their apps, as Apple allows the new button to be used in any app. Snapchat will be one of the first to use it as a demo.
You can even start a complicated conversation with it ChatGPT about your work or university notes. Just point with your camera, click and wait for a result.
Apple says the system uses built-in computing and cloud resources to provide you with relevant search results from the web. And don’t worry about the images you share, the company ensures that no images are stored on its servers.
Also, this particular button makes Apple’s visual intelligence features easier to use. Click and hold the Camera control to start the feature visual intelligence of Apple. You just need to point to a specific object, whether it’s a restaurant, a landmark, a dog in the park or even a festival flyer, press the button to take a photo and the AI will extract relevant information and even add that festival in the calendar.
Notably, all these AI-related features will not be available at launch. In fact, even iOS 18 won’t come with the said feature set and will arrive with another software update, probably by the end of this year.
Source: myphone.gr
