Apple Introduces New Camera Button with iPhone 16 Series

Apple has unveiled a new feature in its latest iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models, which promises to enhance the photography experience for users. The newly introduced Camera Button, located beside the lower left-hand side of the phone’s display, allows users to engage multiple camera functionalities with ease.

This versatile button can be used to open the camera app, take pictures, record videos, toggle camera features, and select zoom levels. It aims to provide a more intuitive and seamless way for users to access these features while emphasizing Apple’s push towards integrating its new Apple Vision Pro technology.

The design changes in the iPhone 16 series, featuring a vertical or horizontal arrangement of camera lenses, make it well-suited for recording Spatial Videos that cater to the VisionOS platform. Users who invest in an Apple Vision Pro headset will be able to view their recorded memories in immersive 3D dimensions.

With the iPhone’s move towards enhancing video recording capabilities, these changes signal Apple’s subtle encouragement for users to adopt landscape mode while using the Camera Button, thereby ensuring a simplified way to capture spatial videos for future viewing experiences.

The advancement doesn’t stop at video recording. The latest models bring improved hardware, including an Ultra Wide lens capable of capturing 48MP images, and a new A18 Pro processor that supports 4K footage at 120fps, further enabled by Apple’s renowned computational photography techniques.

Starting prices for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max are set at $1,799 and $2,149 respectively, with preorders available and shipping set to commence from September 20.