- Apple’s new iPhone 16E has Apple Intelligence’s complete functionality
- Unlike the rest of the iPhone 16 line, the iPhone 16E has no camera control functionality, but can still access visual intelligence
- Visual intelligence can be assigned to the action button or through the control center
It is possible that the 16E iPhone does not have the camera control, the rapid open camera alternation found in the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro, but can still access one of the best characteristics of Apple Intelligence.
Visual Intelligence allows you to point out your iPhone’s camera to an object and obtain information about what you are seeing, either through Chatgpt OA through Google Search. The function is one of the best use cases for Apple Intelligence and, until now, it has been linked to the control of the camera in the best iPhones (it is launched with a long pressure from the camera control alternation).
However, in the newly announced iPhone 16E, visual intelligence is activated differently due to the lack of camera control functionality. Instead, you can assign the function to the action button or access it through the control center.
While it is excellent that the 16E has a complete functionality of Apple Intelligence thanks to the A18 already 8 GB chip, losing a dedicated way of starting visual intelligence without assigning the function to the customizable action button slightly limits the user. The action button can be used to start or perform many different shortcuts, and have visual intelligence assigned to a different entry, such as camera control, allows users of iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro obtaining maximum of their devices.
In the 16E, users will have to choose between visual intelligence through the action button or one of the other endless shortcuts that can be assigned to the fast lever.
If you do not want to assign visual intelligence to the action button on the 16E iPhone, you can access the AI tool from the control center, although that requires an additional entrance, such as dragging from the top of your screen.
The 16E iPhone is available to preordinate from February 21 and will be available from February 28. Prices begin from $ 599 / £ 599 / AU $ 999.
What about the iPhone 15 Pro?
While the 16E iPhone has visual intelligence functionality without camera control, iPhone 15 pro no, despite having everything else that Apple Intelligence offers. Until the 16E iPhone revealed, visual intelligence was supposed to be possible in the 15 Pro due to the lack of camera control, which was introduced with the alignment of the iPhone 16.
On the other hand, it seems that the iPhone 15 Pro, like the iPhone 16E, could access the visual intelligence in other ways, although Apple, for some reason, has decided not to expand the function to this particular model, at least for now .
As someone who updated from the iPhone 15 pro to iPhone 16 Pro to test visual intelligence, I am disappointed that Apple has added the Google Lens competitor to the previous device (or that seems).
Of course, now that the last member of the iPhone family, the 16E, has visual intelligence without an alternation of camera control, the owners of iPhone 15 Pro could see that the function reaches their devices in the future. However, it does not endure your breathing.
