Have you gave it a good used to it? Or it’s like a NPC? I use it for Shazaming music and I couldn’t find a better use for it. Its good honestly.
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Like a second tail on a dog. Useless.
I use it for flashlight. It’s way better than fumbling on the screen at night when I need to turn it on quickly. That’s the best use I could find.
Sorry for dumb question - how do you set it to turn flashlight on?
Got to Settings and search for “Action button”. You will be able to choose between Flashlight (it’s called Torch), Camera and a bunch of other stuff.
I do too, but I’m always hitting it on accident, thinking it’s the up volume. I’m recently a Motorola user, and I could just shake the phone to get the flashlight.
Been loving it as a camera button on my current vacation. Taking pics with gloves on is finally achievable.
If you dont remove ur gloves then How do you close the camera app after use then?
Just lock the screen with pysical power button?
Then how would he use the phone for other purposes? Like calling
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Huh…the volume buttons already act as physical shutter buttons
I wish it didn’t exist, or at least wasn’t next to the volume buttons.
Get the regular 15 then
As much as I don’t like the Action Button, I’d still rather have the larger display, better processor, increased RAM, faster USB-C, larger capacity, and better camera for my needs.
My problem with the Action Button is that there’s nothing I find it useable for that isn’t either already in, or should be in, the Control Panel. Meanwhile, its placement interferes with the volume buttons.
I set it up to do voice memos. But honestly it’d be much much more useful if Apple came up with speech to text for voice memos.
iPhone 14 Plus bought in March. There were no instructions included at all. Action button? I will have to look it up. From the comments of others, it might be useful. Right now, the iPhone is just one of many devices I use to play a game. It is also used for calls and text, maybe 10 a month. I use my iPad 10, bought at the same time, as a replacement for my laptops main functions of shopping, chrome searches, and banking. My laptops are now for old games from before the micro transaction and scammer apps from the Apple Store.
Action button is only on the 15 pro and pro max.
Ty for the clarification. Did I get down voted for saying I didn’t know something and was going to research? Or maybe for saying the iPhone was not of much use to me?
I’d say the fact you listed an iPhone without it, then just went on going about a completely irrelevant topics regarding the action button.
can’t wait until they add one on the other side for the 16 pro max mega
I use it to turn the climate control on in my car
I have the screenshot, copy to clipboard, autodelete shortcut.
Just got the 15 pro and the day after went on a trip to tail of the dragon where not only was I driving I also wanted to get pictures of cars passing by came in very handy having it set to cam
I use it as a silence button. But honestly it gets pressed accidentally often which sucks compared to the switch where that never happened.
I wish I could map multiple actions to it depending on button press. IE long press opens camera and short press mutes device. If it can do that I haven’t figured it out yet.
I’ve kept it as the silence button and use it fairly often for that. I use my triple-backtap for Shazam.
I use it everyday to open up my bus ticket
it’d be better if it was below the volume buttons instead of above them. i set mine to shazam cause the lockscreen camera button is easier to press quickly without fumbling. (same for flashlight)