The iPhones best camera app just got a great Action button upgrade

Date:
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:00:46 +0000

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Halide just added a great new way to take photos on your iPhone

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Ever since the iPhone 15 Pro launched, its new Action button has divided critics. Sure, its a neat new tool with tons of potential, but at the same time it feels disappointingly limited. Well, one app has just revealed a genius way to expand the Action buttons functionality in a big way.

Popular photography app Halide ($2.99 / 2.49 / AU$4.49 per month) is best known for giving iPhone photographers a bunch of powerful tools for snapping top-notch shots, and its our pick for the best camera app you can get on iOS. Now, its developers have released an update that incorporates a bunch of clever features for the Action button.

According to the developers, the Halide 2.13 update lets you quickly launch a variety of features in the app, including switching between 12MP and 48MP resolutions, cycling through lenses, triggering manual focus, enabling raw image capture, and moving between auto and manual exposure. And yes, itll
also let you simply take a picture.

To do all this, Halides developers built a custom shortcut that is triggered when you press the Action button. This shortcut then launches whichever
option you have selected in Halides purpose-built Action button menu. Back in action (Image credit: Halide)

This Action button shortcut is not the only update Halides developers
included in the 2.13 update. There are also optimizations for the 5x zoom on the iPhone 15 Pro Max , new tools that make use of the zero shutter lag in
the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, and a slate of other improvements.

Its just the latest clever enhancement to the Action button. By default, this button can only launch apps and functions with a single press, which has spurred developers on to various ingenious ways to improve its abilities.

For instance, some enterprising users have found a way for the Action button to perform different tasks depending on whether you hold your iPhone in portrait or landscape mode .

It shows the power of the Apple Shortcuts app, as well as the future
direction the Action button could move in. If Halides latest update is anything to go by, there could be a lot more for photographers (and everyone) to look forward to. You might also like 5 things the iPhone 15 Pro Action button can do 1-minute news: Apple iPhone 15 Pro launches with Action button iPhone 15 Pro review: pocket paragon



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