Won't iPhone 16's Camera Control just overcomplicate the elegant simplicity of smartphone photography?

Hands using iPhone 16's Camera Control on a white background
(Image credit: Apple)

Apple's genius has always been delivering products that people need – even if they don’t know it – in the most simplified manner possible. And although the iPhone 16's Camera Control is an undeniably exciting development for iPhone photographers, I’m worried Apple is in danger of overcomplicating what made the best iPhone for photography so darn compelling in the first place. Simplicity.

To illustrate my point, let's head right back to 2007, the year Rhianna's Umbrella refused to budge from the top of the charts, Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare occupied teenagers for hundreds of hours, and the Colts became the first – and only – AFC South team to win the Super Bowl.

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Mike Harris
How To Editor

Mike is Digital Camera World's How To Editor. He has over a decade of experience, writing for some of the biggest specialist publications including Digital Camera, Digital Photographer and PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine. Prior to DCW, Mike was Deputy Editor of N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and Production Editor at Wex Photo Video, where he sharpened his skills in both the stills and videography spheres. While he's an avid motorsport photographer, his skills extend to every genre of photography – making him one of Digital Camera World's top tutors for techniques on cameras, lenses, tripods, filters and other imaging equipment – as well as sharing his expertise on shooting everything from portraits and landscapes to abstracts and architecture to wildlife and, yes, fast things going around race tracks...

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