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Wean yourself off the Action Button before you get an iPhone Duo

AppleInsider • Fri, 09 Oct 2026

Wean yourself off the Action Button before you get an iPhone Duo

The iPhone Duo more famously lacks Face ID, but it's also lost the Action Button. If that matters to you, it matters a lot, but there is something you can do. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. The iPhone Duo has no Action Button. Not to keep you hanging, the solution to losing the Action Button on the iPhone Duo is to create a near equivalent. You can replace one of the iPhone 's regular lock screen icons with a control or a Shortcut that mimics the Action Button. True, the real Action Button still has the same peculiar design it did back in 2023 , where pressing it does nothing except pop up a notice telling you to press longer. You can't emulate that with a Shortcut or a control, but you can do pretty much everything else. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

What happened?

The iPhone Duo more famously lacks Face ID, but it's also lost the Action Button. If that matters to you, it matters a lot, but there is something you can do. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. The iPhone Duo has no Action Button. Not to keep you hanging, the solution to losing the Action Button on the iPhone Duo is to create a near equivalent. You can replace one of the iPhone 's regular lock screen icons with a control or a Shortcut that mimics the Action Button. True, the real Action Button still has the same peculiar design it did back in 2023 , where pressing it does nothing except pop up a notice telling you to press longer. You can't emulate that with a Shortcut or a control, but you can do pretty much everything else. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Story details

The iPhone Duo more famously lacks Face ID, but it's also lost the Action Button.

If that matters to you, it matters a lot, but there is something you can do.

You don't know what you've got until it's gone.

Why it matters

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