The Camera Control button is a new physical control on the side of the entire iPhone 16 lineup. Here's everything you need to know, and how to get the most out of it.

Okay, this time do a double light tap and a swipeable menu of various camera controls will pop up. You can access zoom, depth effects, exposure, and other options by swiping along the button.

Now when you click Camera Control, the Magnifier app will be instantly invoked. You'll also see that there's a Code Scanner option that you can assign to the button from this settings menu.

I absolutely love the new Camera Control button on iPhone 16, but the default settings aren’t for me. By default, I find it too slow to activate and too accident prone when taking photos ...

Aside from photography, the most prominent use for the Camera Control button is for Visual Intelligence, a feature that uses Apple Intelligence to identify information that's in front of the camera.

It's the camera control button that causes all the chaos. Camera control is a new button on the iPhone 16 lineup that does what the name suggests: it controls your camera.

This year's upcoming iPhone 17 models could be the last of Apple's smartphones to include a Camera Control button because not ...

The Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 isn't the useful feature Apple thinks it is. It falls short on speed and it's not intuitive.