Apple in September iPhone 16 series He brought us together. Perhaps the most striking feature of the devices equipped with many innovations is “Camera controlsIt was a brand new key called “. Added below the power button, this touch-sensitive button had many functions, from taking photos to zooming.

However, all the functions of the “Camera Control” button were not shipped with the phone in the first place, for a reason beyond our understanding. Some of them would be rolling out iOS 18 regularly. One of them is using the key regardless of the status of the phone. to open the camera It was a feature.

With iOS 18.2, Camera Control can enable the camera even when the phone’s screen is turned off

One of the features of Camera Control is that it opens the camera application immediately when you press it. But until now this function was in a way that we don’t understand. only when the screen is on worked. So the phone could not be used if it was locked.

The beta version of iOS 18.2 finally showed that this will change. Now button, phone It can open the camera application in always-on screen mode and even when the screen is off. It’s really strange that features like this came so late.

iOS 18.2 will bring a number of new Apple Intelligence features, especially Camera Control, to iPhones in December. making it widely available is expected.