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iOS 18 will add a button to pause video recordings in your iPhone’s Digital camera app. Apple launched the pause choice within the Digital camera app with the iOS 18 Launch Candidate construct.
Whereas fundamental, the pause choice will make sure you don’t need to report a number of clips.
Pause a video recording in your iPhone’s Digital camera app
For causes finest identified to Apple, the iPhone’s Digital camera app lacked a pause choice whereas recording movies. You possibly can take an image whereas taking pictures a video however couldn’t pause an ongoing recording. Fortunately, iOS 18 will change this by introducing a pause button.
Curiously, the OS’s beta releases didn’t embrace this function. Nevertheless, it’s current within the iOS 18 Launch Candidate construct that Apple seeded proper after the “It’s Glowtime” occasion on September 9. Tapping the pause button will present a “PAUSED” indicator in pink proper beneath the video’s recorded size. A pleasant contact is that Apple will let you change between lenses with a paused video.
Word that you simply can’t exit the Digital camera app after pausing a video. Doing so will cease the recording.
You’ll be able to’t use Digital camera Management on the iPhone 16 to pause an ongoing video recording. You should use it to begin or cease a video recording, change the zoom degree, and so forth. However as Apple showcased on the stage, pausing a recording is. not doable. So, a pause button within the Digital camera viewfinder is a useful choice.
iOS 18 drops subsequent week
Alongside iPhone 16 Professional, AirPods 4, and Apple Watch Sequence 10, Apple additionally confirmed iOS 18’s launch date. The OS will begin rolling out to the general public on September 16 (Monday). It packs a number of new options, together with in depth Dwelling Display screen and Management Heart customization choices. The Pictures app can be getting an enormous makeover for a greater expertise.
The principle spotlight is Apple Intelligence, although it would solely arrive with iOS 18.1 in October.
iPadOS 18, watchOS 11 and macOS Sequoia additionally roll out on the identical day.