The iPhone 15 Pro has been out for nearly three months. There’s a lot I love about it, but one feature still stands out as something special.
When Apple launched the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple decided to get rid of a hardware feature that has been around since the original iPhone in 2007. The change that I’m referring to is the replacement of the silent/ring toggle in favor of the new Action button, similar to the one on the Apple Watch Ultra.
It seems that the Action button is pretty divisive, as you either love it or hate it. When I got my iPhone 15 Pro, the Action button was one of the main reasons why I upgraded from my iPhone 14 Pro.
However, it seems that not everyone likes it as much as I do.Why I still love the iPhone’s Action button
As I mentioned, the Action button was one of the more exciting things about the iPhone 15 Pro that I thought was worthy enough to upgrade to.
Since I’ve started using various Android phones, one of my favorite things about them is being able to open the camera with the power button. Though Apple doesn’t replicate that gesture exactly, the Action button gives me a similar type of functionality with my iPhone.
Yes, I know that there is a camera shortcut button on the iPhone lock screen, and I still use it occasionally out of habit. But the problem I have with that on-screen shortcut is that it’s hit or miss. Sometimes, it will get me to the camera without an issue; other times, it seems to act up, and by the time I get to the camera, the moment I want to capture has passed.
When I got my iPhone 15 Pro on launch day, the first thing I did was set the Action button to launch the Camera app (just on a default photo, though there are other options). The reason for this is that I want to access my camera as fast as possible; there are a lot of moments with my daughter that I want to capture, and if you know toddlers, those moments happen in seconds and can be hard to replicate.
