I actually like and use the camera button, but maybe I’m in the minority.

I love my action button to open a quick menu of shortcuts I regularly run, but the camera control is actually useless. Maybe I’ve got big fingers but it’s too finicky. It never does what I intend it to do.

Wasn’t the idea that this button was put in in anticipation of AI looking at things being a future use case? It sounded like Apple was anticipating people wanting quick instant access to AI analysis of anything you point your camera at. Basically, being able to grab your phone and raise it while pressing the button and you would be poised to make your query.

Did I hallucinate this like an LLM?

Fine with me. There are too many buttons. Programming the “Action” button to take pictures is more than enough.

The camera button confuses the heck out of my Mom (a new iPhone owner).

I'd much rather have a home or back button than a camera one (which can be mapped to the action button or, ideally, multi tapping the volume button anyway).