However, the new ability to assign Control Center functions to the Action button may change its reception, and could address common criticisms about its limited usefulness.

New Action Button functions are arriving in iOS 18. For iPhone 16 users, you have a lot of controls for shortcuts, cameras, voice memos, and more.

Apple is expected to debut a new Capture Button on the iPhone 16 series and a new report has revealed what it might do.

Apple has standardised the Action Button across the iPhone 16 models this year. That means the regular iPhone models also have the Action Button alongside the Pro models. Launched with the iPhone ...

The Action Button on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 provides one-click access to features, but strangely it can only perform one action. With a quick workaround in the Shortcuts apps, it's possible ...

The capture button works through Apple's iPhone 16 cases as they have a conductive layer that picks up and passes finger movement to the capture button.

The new iPhone 16e moves Visual Intelligence to the Action Button, making that immediately more useful and also giving faint hope that the button will be improved further.