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Can the iPhone Duo camera button be remapped to an action button?

Will the iPhone Duo allow us to change the camera control button to an action button function?


As a productivity machine over a being the pro camera phone it seems to be marketed as, it seems like it should be added as a special feature at least for the Duo. The Duo already is allowing Apple Watch Unlock like Mac has since it doesn’t get FaceID, so it seems like another good Duo unique feature to add! If not allowing it to other devices without having to do a hacky shortcut to open off of a random camera app it opens. The Duo is so smooth it shouldn’t be compromised by losing the room for the action button.

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Mattmonkey wrote:
Will the iPhone Duo allow us to change the camera control button to an action button function?
As a productivity machine over a being the pro camera phone it seems to be marketed as, it seems like it should be added as a special feature at least for the Duo. The Duo already is allowing Apple Watch Unlock like Mac has since it doesn’t get FaceID, so it seems like another good Duo unique feature to add! If not allowing it to other devices without having to do a hacky shortcut to open off of a random camera app it opens. The Duo is so smooth it shouldn’t be compromised by losing the room for the action button.

No one can answer this question with any certainty as the iPhone Duo has not been released yet. But my guess would be no and I have read some articles about the Duo and the camera control button can be turned off, but not programmed to another function. And from what I've read the iPhone Duo does not feature a dedicated Action Button like the iPhone 18 Pro/18 Pro Max does. If an Action Button is important to you, you may find the Duo doesn't do what you need it to.

I don't believe anyone here has gotten their hands on one yet.