We have heard for a while now that Apple will embody a brand new button on the iPhone 16 series known as the “Capture” button. Just just a few weeks in the past, we advised you that Apple deliberate on putting this button on the proper facet of the handset underneath the energy button. It additionally will be a capacitive button with haptic suggestions that will go to work when it feels the contact of a person’s finger and at the time we stated that it in all probability will be used to rapidly snap a photograph just like a shutter button, and to begin a video recording.
During his weekly “Power On” publication that was launched at this time, Bloomberg’s Apple beat writer Mark Gurman stated that the 2024 iPhone fashions will get a devoted button for capturing video. That makes good sense for a button known as “Capture.” Interestingly, Gurman did not say something about the button getting used to snap nonetheless images so the solely factor that Gurman expects is that the button will be used to begin video recording.
Arrow exhibits the place the capacitive Capture button lies on our iPhone 16 Pro renders
In the U.S., the placement of the button on the proper facet of the telephone is forcing Apple to maneuver the antenna for high-band mmWave 5G indicators to the left facet of the telephone beneath the Action button and the quantity buttons. Non-U.S. variations of the iPhone 16 haven’t got an mmWave antenna that’s being displaced by the “Capture” button.
While not talked about by Gurman at this time, the latest replace to iOS 17.2 gave the rear cameras on the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max the capacity to document immersive spatial video utilizing the Wide and Ultra-wide cameras collectively. When performed again utilizing the Vision Pro headsets, these movies seem in 3D and could be proven on a digital display screen so large that you simply will really feel like you could have gone again in time to the second that you simply recorded the video and are experiencing it another time.
With renders of the the iPhone 16(*16*) and iPhone 16(*16*) Plus displaying the rear cameras returning to the vertical setup final seen on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini, such a placement will additionally permit the non-Pro iPhone 16(*16*) and iPhone 16(*16*) Plus to document in spatial video together with the Pro fashions.