Small side buttons can do more than you think—use these hidden shortcuts that make everyday tasks faster and easier.

In watchOS 26, Apple made the Control Center more customizable than ever. You can rearrange it and add third-party app controls, and if you don't like your changes, you can revert to the original ...

Commentary: I hated the camera control button on my iPhone, so I used these settings to make it entirely decorative.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max during an event at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, ...

The iPhone 16/16 Pro’s new Camera Control button is almost as polarizing as politics. Some people love it; they think it makes it easier to photograph on the fly rather than unlocking the iPhone with ...

Commentary: I love the idea behind the dedicated Camera Control button on recent iPhones, but it keeps getting in the way. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author ...

Snapping a quick photo on your iPhone can be tricky. You have to open the Camera app, set the zoom, exposure, and other controls, and then try to take the picture. By then, the subject of your ...

I'm a longtime iPhone user, and I've been dying to get my hands on Apple's newest hardware innovation: the Camera Control button. After over a month with the iPhone 16 Plus, I can safely say I was ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

We have a 2007 Dodge Caravan with the factory audio system. It has no audio control buttons on the wheel, but it does have cruise control buttons: I have never used cruise control. I will never use ...

Apple replaced the classic mute switch with the configurable Action button last year on the iPhone 15 Pro. Since day one, the Action button on my iPhone 15 Pro Max has been assigned to launching the ...

Reader Eric Lowe has a problem with Mail in OS X: My email opens at reduced size, but the expansion icon is grayed out, so I cannot get the page to full-screen size. With Mail set to full screen, mail ...