Since last Friday, Any of the four iPhone 16 models can now be purchasedincluding the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, the crown jewels. As we told you on the 9th, when it was introduced, on this occasion we saw a bigger renewal in the standard models than in the Pro, but even so it introduces enough new things that it is fully justified to talk about a generational leap.

One of the most important new features, and one that applies to all models in the family, is one that we already told you about many months before its launch, in January. I mean, as you might have already imagined, if you are aware of the major new features of this iPhone generation, Camera Control, a button that turns your iPhone into a digital camera/camcorderby providing a single interface for using the camera’s most important functions. And as part of Apple’s exercise to democratize access to the latest, this new button is present on both the standard models and the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. And that, along with the fact that the action button has also made the jump to the standard models, is a big improvement over their predecessors.

So it can be assumed that many of the first buyers of some of the new iPhone models crightly decided to try this new element of the phone interface and from what I’ve heard so far, the reviews seem to be very positive, especially among users who use the camera features the most. However, from the first moment, information began to appear that pointed to a problem that could be related to this button, which would affect the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max.

More precisely, as we can see on Reddit, many users claim this Touch the nearest part of the camera control screen on iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max to disable its touch function. The issue is not specific to standard models, and after a few initial moments of confusion, sharing the experiences of affected users has helped to locate the issue in that particular area of ​​the screen.

So after this initial investigation, there are those who claim that this is not a glitch, but rather an intentional blocking system to prevent the user from accidentally touching the screen while using the camera button, and that in this case the problem would be that Apple did not inform users enough. However, there is a pretty strong argument against this theory, and this is it In this case, this behavior would also be reproduced in standard modelswhich is clearly not happening.

So it seems quite likely that we’re dealing with a bug or perhaps a half-baked intentional blocking feature that shouldn’t be present in iOS yet, at least not in this way. The good news, yes, is that at least in the first evaluation it appears to be a software issueand which should therefore be able to be resolved without excessive complications, so we will have to stay tuned for upcoming OS updates, especially if you have an iPhone 16 Pro or Pro Max.