It's even deeper than that. You know the fancy side button that is designed to be used as a camera shortcut? You don't need that shortcut? Guess that button is unusable for you, because you won't be able to assign it to anything else.

Meanwhile the lock button long-press was hijacked for Siri, so now you have to click it five times if you want to turn off the phone.

And don't get me started on the useless back tap, which now displays a popup randomly, trying to seduce you into using it instead of a physical button, but the detection is so flaky I doubt anyone actually uses it.

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ntoskrnl_exe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do you mean that new action button thingy above the volume controls? You can reassign to perform something else in the settings. Only a few options to choose from, but it's totally possible.

As for powering off, you can tap the ⏻ symbol in the upper right-hand side corner of the control center.

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gabeio 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No they are talking about the new camera button on the same side as the power/siri button. Which is semi-ironic considering the volume buttons still work fine as camera buttons they just don’t also handle zoom (you can slide your finger on the button to adjust zoom). I honestly am more annoyed at the button than enjoy it, yet another button I accidentally press when I nearly drop my phone and now have the camera app open.

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fizwidget 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can assign the action button to run a shortcut, which opens up thousands of possibilities for what it can do.

	▲	mzmzmzm 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I find the shortcuts extremely powerful all over different parts of the system, but I wish the contours of what it can and can't do were less opaque. Feels like a lot of time-wasting trial and error to discover what is or isn't possible on an iPhone.

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childofhedgehog 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you long press the lock button and volume increase at the same time you can turn the new iPhone off. I can’t imagine doing 5 clicks to do this!

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mastercheif 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Back tap is an accessibility feature, not intended for general public use.

	▲	gabeio 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use it all of the time! I actually love it but I use it for grayscale mode, nothing actually critical. And yeah it triggers randomly but I am never upset to be without color.
	▲	lynndotpy 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Accessibility features are intended for general public use and they should work.
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