iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max hands-on: don’t call it a shutter button

I conscionable spent a fewer minutes pinch nan caller iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which characteristic bigger displays pinch thinner bezels, revamped cameras, and Apple’s caller Camera Control button, which is beautiful fascinating.

Let’s commencement pinch Camera Control, which is simply a beingness fastener — it depresses into nan lawsuit ever truthful slightly, pinch further haptic feedback from Apple’s Taptic Engine to make it consciousness for illustration a chunkier click. You tin conscionable click distant astatine it, and it’ll occurrence disconnected photos from nan 48MP main camera pinch zero shutter lag. I was not capable to slow it down successful my short demo time, but we’ll spot really that goes successful existent life.

The fastener is besides ultra sensitive, truthful pressing it ever truthful lightly brings up swipe-to-zoom controls, and double-pressing it lightly brings up further controls you tin swipe between, for illustration lens selection, exposure, and nan caller photograph styles disposable connected nan Pro. It took maine a 2nd to find really difficult to press, but it wasn’t difficult to fig out.

It was beautiful seamless to move betwixt nan various photograph styles, but it was difficult to spot really overmuch they were really doing successful nan cleanable lighting conditions of Apple’s demo area.

The phones themselves are somewhat taller and wider than nan 15 Pro models, making room for larger screens: a 6.3-inch sheet connected nan 16 Pro and a monolithic 6.9-inch show connected nan 16 Pro Max, accent connected Max. It’s made imaginable partially by caller thinner bezels, too. They don’t consciousness each that overmuch bigger successful nan manus without a case.

The large news for nan smaller telephone is that nan regular 16 Pro now comes pinch nan 5x telephoto camera formerly reserved for nan Pro Max. Apple has managed to wedge it successful alongside nan main and ultrawide cameras. That’ll beryllium a invited summation for anyone who wants a due zoom lens without having to bargain nan biggest phone.

If you were hoping for immoderate much vibrant colors connected nan Pro phones, well, you’ll person to support waiting. The champion Apple has done this twelvemonth is simply a darker golden called “desert titanium.” The different colour options are acquainted restrained neutrals.

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