I don't really care. I'd be happy if it didn't even exist. The only thing that switch is used for on my iPhone 15 is getting stuck on the case when it is turned on and turning silent mode off which is on permanently otherwise.
Imagine you are lost in the woods running from a bear. It's night time and you can't see where are you going, and it just started to run quite heavily. You whip out your iPhone as you run to turn on the flashlight...Ah! The rain falls on the screen and the flashlight button becomes unresponsive. The bear is also catching up. In a few seconds you'd be done for. If you trip or run into a tree now it's all over. At this moment you remember that you have set your action button to turn on the flashlight. You press it and the light turns on! Suddenly you see a tree just three feet from you and you were just about to hit it. You swerve at the last moment just as the bear pounces. The bear hits the tree instead and fell unconscious. You keep running. Setting the button to flashlight has saved your life.it’s on the Lock Screen too. Literally just have to move your finger 3 inches. Doesn’t justify a button
Well I’m sold.Imagine you are lost in the woods running from a bear. It's night time and you can't see where are you going, and it just started to run quite heavily. You whip out your iPhone as you run to turn on the flashlight...Ah! The rain falls on the screen and the flashlight button becomes unresponsive. The bear is also catching up. In a few seconds you'd be done for. If you trip or run into a tree now it's all over. At this moment you remember that you have set your action button to turn on the flashlight. You press it and the light turns on! Suddenly you see a tree just three feet from you and you were just about to hit it. You swerve at the last moment just as the bear pounces. The bear hits the tree instead and fell unconscious. You keep running. Setting the button to flashlight has saved your life.
I have it set to open a ShortCut shelf of 8 thing I do all the time. Super useful for quick one handed things.Setting up quick shortcuts for the button is nice, but I can see how some people don’t need or want it
Ye it’s not really useful. Use it for opening the camera but that’s on the Lock Screen anyway. So is flashlight, the only other thing I’d use it for. So makes it pointless. Also the action button on the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is even more useless. I don’t use it for workouts so it’s set to flash light. Never use the thing. Such a waste of buttons.