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I really wish the new Camera Control button on iPhone 16 could act like a shoulder button on a games controller


With the addition of the Camera Control button on Apple’s new iPhone 16 series, I'm wondering why we can’t use it for mobile gaming.

While it’s great news for amateur photographers, I’m hoping that future software updates could give the new button a feature fit for iOS 18’s fresh Game Mode. I can’t tell you how many times my trigger finger has obscured my view in PUBG Mobile, and if there was a shoulder button, I might actually have a chance of winning a game. The problem is that to make the Camera Control button work as a shoulder trigger, Apple would have to give mobile game developers access to the feature.

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