The Action button is available for the first time on non-Pro versions of the iPhone. So what exactly can you do with it? Nelson Aguilar With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and ...

Two things I use all the time in one elegant shortcut. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac I finally figured out the perfect set of controls to assign to the iPhone’s Action button. I created a ...

I received my Apple Vision Pro yesterday (for the full story of how it eventually found its way to Italy, you don’t want to miss the next episode of AppStories), and, as you can imagine, I’ve been ...

The Action button opens a world of possibilities. Image: Apple/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can go beyond the basics if you customize the iPhone’s Action button with shortcuts. You can make a fart ...

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Last year, Apple introduced the Action Button to the iPhone 15 Pro and leaned hard into its use as a button to take pictures. This year, though, the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro both have a new dedicated ...

The Action Button on the iPhone 15 and later provides one-click access to features, but strangely it can only perform one action. With a quick workaround in the Shortcuts apps, it's possible to use ...

The Action Button is a genuinely new button on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max but not the regular iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Instead of the mute switch that’s been on every iPhone since ...