Apple beat writer tells us what the mystery “Capture” button will do on the iPhone 16 series

We've been hearing for a while now that Apple will include a new button on the iPhone 16 series called the “Capture” button. Just a few weeks ago, we told you that Apple was planning to place this button on the right side of the handset, below the power button. It will also be a capacitive button with haptic feedback that will work when it senses the touch of a user's finger and at the time we said it will likely be used to quickly take a photo similar to a shutter button, and to start video recording.

During his week Newsletter “Powering up” which was released today, Bloomberg Apple Editor Mark Gurman said that 2024 iPhone models will have a dedicated video recording button. This makes perfect sense for a button called “Capture”. Interestingly, Gurman didn't say anything about the button used to take photos, so the only thing Gurman expects is for the button to be used to start video recording.

In the United States, the button's location on the right side of the phone requires Apple to move the antenna for high-band mmWave 5G signals to the left side of the phone, below the action button and volume buttons. Non-US versions of the iPhone 16 do not have a mmWave antenna which is moved by the “Capture” button.

Although Gurman didn't mention it today, the recent iOS 17.2 update gave the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max's rear cameras the ability to record immersive spatial video using the wide and ultra-wide cameras together. When played using Vision Pro headsets, these videos appear in 3D and can be displayed on a virtual screen so large that you'll feel like you're going back in time to when you recorded the video and to relive it again. .

With renderings of iPhone16 And iPhone16 In addition to showing the rear cameras returning to the vertical setup last seen on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini, such placement will also allow non-Pro iPhone16 And iPhone16 Plus for recording spatial video with Pro models.