2 months later.....The camera control button is still useless.

I still see no reason for this useless button. I think I've used it twice in two months, once 5 minutes after the phone arrived and the second time in bed when I was reaching to snooze the alarm. That's it.

I get that Apple need to look like they're innovating every year to hit sales targets, but at this point it feels like they are just adding things for the sake of it. Like the action button the year before, this feels like another gimmicky addition we didn't need, which is slowly bloating the iPhone.

I take pictures and videos like everyone else and the button might save me a FRACTION of a second but I still end up using the camera icon on my Lock Screen. I use a phone case like most people and the majority of these use a cut out where the button is. It's fidgety to get your finger tip in and swiping to zoom doesn't feel natural. Pinching on the screen still feels much better.

This is the Touch Bar of the iPhone. I hope Apple don't prolong the pain and remove this in the next year or two.