Apple’s newest iOS 15.2 beta is making the iPhone 13 Pro’s macro mode easy by including a button to allow you to flip it on and off (via 9to5Mac). The icon, which appears to be like like slightly flower, pops up everytime you’re shut sufficient to an object to take a macro photograph and allows you to simply change between having Auto Macro mode on and off with out having to enter settings.

A video from ZolloTech reveals how the function at the moment works in iOS 15.2 beta 2: if in case you have Auto Macro turned off, the button will seem whenever you get near one thing. Tapping it appears to mainly flip Auto Macro again on, and your cellphone will change into macro mode. Tapping the button once more turns Auto Macro off and switches you again to the common digicam.

When the iPhone 13 launched, some reviewers stated the automated transition to macro mode could possibly be jarring, because the cellphone was switching lenses with out exhibiting that the change had occurred within the UI (the lens indicator doesn’t change from 1x to 0.5x because it usually would). Apple mounted it by introducing a toggle (Settings > Camera > Auto Macro) that allow you to flip off the automated switching, however that made issues slightly sophisticated. Just switching to the ultra-wide digicam and getting near your topic would get you totally different outcomes than macro mode would — to totally replicate the macro impact, you’d additionally must manually zoom in to 0.9x.

The change in 15.2 beta 2 makes issues easy. If you don’t need to give it some thought, you’ll be able to go away Auto Macro on, and your iPhone 13 Pro will take a macro image if you happen to’re shut sufficient to an object. If you’d desire finer management, or discover the change jarring, you’ll be able to flip Auto Macro off however nonetheless have quick access to the mode in order for you it by the button that can pop up when the cellphone thinks you’re attempting to take a macro image.

While that is most likely how the system ought to’ve labored from the beginning, it’s good to see that it’s lastly making its means on to telephones. Hopefully this repair will keep the identical by the beta course of and be a part of the 15.2 ultimate launch.