Apple’s ‘Awe dropping’ event
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple planning simplified version of the Camera Control for iPhone 18
- Apple officially announces iPhone 17 event
- The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Wednesday, August 27, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are |
| 0:09.9 | sponsored this week by BMX, Better Mobile Experience. Leading off today, last week a rumor from a |
| 0:17.2 | random Waybo account with zero track record, claim that the iPhone 18 will drop the camera |
| 0:23.3 | control button. We were skeptical of the rumor at the time, and now a new leak from a more |
| 0:28.5 | reliable source has the full context. As it turns out, Apple isn't planning to remove the camera |
| 0:34.0 | control from the iPhone 18 altogether, but rather introduce a dumbed down version of it. As a refresher, the camera control from the iPhone 18 altogether, but rather introduce a dumbed-down version of it. |
| 0:40.4 | As a refresher, the camera control on the iPhone 16 is a complex piece of engineering. |
| 0:45.5 | It combines a pressure-sensitive button with a capacitive surface, on which you can swipe and tap to manipulate the camera app. |
| 0:52.9 | You can press the button to take a picture |
| 0:55.1 | or swipe on its surface to switch between modes, photographic styles, zoom in and out, and more. |
| 1:02.2 | This week's rumor comes from Instant Digital on Waybo, an account that has accurately leaked information |
| 1:08.0 | about multiple upcoming iPhones in the past. They say that Apple is |
| 1:12.1 | currently running normal trial production of the pressure sensor used in the iPhone's camera control, |
| 1:17.9 | but it has removed the touch-sensitive component from the button. So you'd still be able to |
| 1:22.8 | press on the camera control with the iPhone 18 to focus and take a picture, but you wouldn't be able to do |
| 1:28.6 | any of the swiping manipulations. The report cites the high production cost and long-term |
| 1:34.3 | reliability concerns of the camera control as reasons for this change. Another possibility that's |
| 1:40.4 | likely is that Apple has also heard the user feedback from iPhone users who say that they |
| 1:45.8 | don't use the camera control for anything more than opening the camera app and taking a picture. |
| 1:51.9 | In fact, a lot of iPhone 16 users have opted to disable the camera control swiping gestures altogether, |
| 1:58.3 | something you can do for yourself in the settings app. |
| 2:01.2 | Next up today, Apple is no longer allowed to advertise the Apple Watch as carbon neutral, |
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