The other shortcut, the camera one, is tricky: with the new iPhone 16 series, you have a total of four ways to access the camera: the lock screen shortcut, swiping left on the lock screen, mapping the camera to the Action Button, and pressing the new Camera Control button. That's enough redundancy.

With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as alternatives to Apple’s default camera app with manual controls and different image processing algorithms — have already taken advantage of that possibility and released updates with shortcuts

Apple has launched the latest major software update for iPhones, bringing a password manager app, as well as various new ways to tweak the look of your home screen. The latest iOS 18 version, now available to download,