The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have an Action button instead of the Ring/Silent toggle on older iPhones, and iOS 18 makes it even more useful.
iOS 18 lets you assign the Actions button to one of dozens of controls available in the new Control Center gallery, allowing the Actions button to invoke Dark Mode, Airplane Mode, Personal Hotspot, and more. Options like Low Power Mode and Orientation Lock don’t seem to be available as of iOS 18 beta 1, but the Shortcut action already allows those options to be assigned an Action button if you so desire.
These new options add to the actions already available for the Actions button on iOS 17, including Ring/Silence, Do Not Disturb, Camera, Flashlight, Voice Memo, Magnifier, Translate, Shortcut, and Accessibility. Some of the new Control Center options were already possible using the Shortcut or Accessibility options.
The Action button has been rumored to be expanded to all four iPhone 16 models later this year, so these new controls will be coming to even more devices.
iOS 18 is currently in beta and should be released in September.
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