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No dedicated Camera button. Apple sacrificing usability for design once again.
by JohnsonB 14y ago
No dedicated Camera button. Apple sacrificing usability for design once again.
- jamroom 14y agothe up volume button controls the shutter when in the camera app.
- planb 14y agoAnd since iOS 5 there's a shortcut that takes you to the camera directly from the lock screen.
- josefresco 14y agoWhich has me turning my phone off, and then unlocking to the camera because it's quicker than swiping 3-4 times to get to my camera app.
- clarky07 14y agoor you could hit the home button. surely camera app is important enough to make it onto page 1?
- JohnsonB 14y agoAnd that's not dedicated, so you have to launch the app any time you want to take a picture, so you miss photo opportunities doing that. Dedicated is like Windows Phone where pressing the button takes a picture, regardless of the app you're in.
- podperson 14y agoI'd call this an antifeature. Generally, I want to decide when to use the camera. (Also, I have children.)
- cooldeal 14y agoI guess he misspoke. Regardless of which app you're in or even if the screen is switched off, pressing the camera button for a couple of seconds opens the camera app. Whether you take a picture or video is up to you. It's much faster than fiddling around for the power button and then tap the camera button on screen.
- clarky07 14y agoright, for all those times i want to take a picture without being able to tell what it is going to be of.
- JohnsonB 14y agoWell you do know what it is, you just want a pic before it passes. Otherwise, it's just easier and more efficient.
- dak1 14y agoThe volume up button doubles as a hardware camera button.
- JohnsonB 14y agoNo, I mean't like Windows Phone, the camera button takes a picture automatically regardless of the app your in.
- oemera 14y agoThere is no phone which has everything you need. Everyone has different aspects of things. Maybe the iPhone doesn't fit you. Why don't you buy an WP7/8 if it has those features? I don't understand what this discussing is helping. It doesn't have one and I'm pretty sure it will never have a dedicated button. I can understand why Apple is not going the way others are going. This is a phone not a dedicated camera, so why would you mix these things? I know the camera these days are pretty good and a lot of people are using only their phones to point-and-shot but I think it would and it is (on different phones) feels wrong to have dedicated button for camera. This is all my opinion. Others do different views but this mine. I respect every other view.
- jlgreco 14y agoIn android, at least on my phone, dedicated camera buttons will take you to the camera application whenever you press them. It is quite nice, honestly I never bothered figuring out how to take a picture with it otherwise. In iOS I assume the UI is sufficiently less dreadful that this is not as necessary.
- alphang 14y agoNot that this is a real solution, but you can lock and swipe up. Two motions instead of one.