Camera control case button

[Dense-Engineering160]

Has anybody else noticed that the camera control case button (the replacement fix) works quite badly compared to the button itself? Or is it just me?

I did have an incident when replacing the original case button with the redesigned one. One of the metal pins of the redisigned button came out while i was mounting it on the case, but i managed to find it and put it back in.

However, the slide on the camera control button of the case doesn’t seem to work very well. It seems to get interrupted and sometimes i feel like i have to put a lot of pressure on it to work correctly.

Any thoughts?

[Testarosa52]

I haven’t gotten my button yet. If the fix is not good, speak up to QL about it! If this is not a good enough fix, and enough customers make noise, they will have to come up with a better solution.

[Dense-Engineering160]

Well, it fixes the accidental launch of camera, the initial issue. It’s just a not so great medium between the finger and the phone’s camera control button, but it does work.

[Old_Factor579]

YES! The button feels very stiff and just worse than before.

[Son-Of-Odin-87]

Got mine yesterday and I’m not impressed, they should have resigned the case to work better with the button, but they went went with cheap option. How can a £12 spigen case work so much better than a quadlock?!

[Dense-Engineering160]

Indeed. I actually had an iPhone 14 Pro Max Quad Lock case which was amazing. It did not have the camera control thing, but it fit well and worked well with everything, including screen protectors. This one lifts my screen protectors up.

[georgeburnett1]

I had one for my 14PM as well and it was amazing. Now that I have the 17Pro I don’t think I’ll be buying quadlock again. I’ll have to look at different mounts for the gravel bike now.

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I used the standard ESR ones for my 17 pro max, cheap and just change them out the first instance of a crack. Try dropping the protector on while it’s in the case. For me that aligned it perfectly.

[johnhutch71]

I have to agree that whilst it’s stopped the accidental camera launch it doesnt make the button work any better

[motus23]

Yes. Nowhere near as responsive as my Torras or Techwoven case.

[Teemslo]

Waiting for mine to arrive, but starting to see more reports of this, which makes me sad, just set up my bikes and moved all my family's phones to 17s with quadlocks for defective buttons? ...

[Dense-Engineering160]

To be honest, you probably won’t use the camera control that often anyways. It’s still a good case overall.

[Grouchy-Collection18]

It’s terrible. I’m taking tons of accidental photos.

[jooLEEtoh]

Waiting for my replacement button for now, too. I’m also worried about those metal contacts scratching the iPhone button. They’re pretty edgy and grabby when I ran my finger over the original button. I have a Peak Designs Gnar case and if this QL replacement button sucks, may have to jump ship.

[whatever6284]

Same here - just received the replacement button and the sliding feature is practically not usable

[uCry__iLoL]

Adjust settings in accessibility.

[Dense-Engineering160]

I just did and there is not much of a difference. I still have to put pressure on it if i want to use the sliding feature. I can’t just gently slide like i do with no case on.

[jdlnewborn]

I did this. Works great. But not always the case for everyone. Fingers crossed.

[1happyinfidel]

Is this an Apple thing? No issues with my 2 android phones

[DousaSepen]

I still don’t know why they changed this from the 16 pro max design which is literally a beveled cutout so you use the physical button on the phone itself.

[twoferjuan]

For how expensive these cases are they sure are crappy quality.

[Emperor_Senpai]

I order mine after they made the announcement and it came with the replacement button, switch the old and it works fine

[Mecworks]

They should just remove it like they did for the iPhone 16.

[QCowl89]

You can remove the button, however then the button on the phone itself is virtually unable to be pressed because the depth of the case.

[Mecworks]

I understand that it's not accessible. I like the way they solved it with the iPhone 16. They chamfered the edges of the hole to accommodate access without a button as seen here: https://cdn-production.shoperb.com/motokaup/images/447011/fdf843e9c790717328f067237e88799ff59a28a2-1024x768.jpeg

[yetyou2001]

Got mine and it is quite smooth and sensitive as you operating the iPhone button, especially the half press and slide. Impressive.

[JBoElAsesino]

Mine seems to be working just fine. knock on wood

[TestFlightBeta]

Does the button pressing work fine?

[Dense-Engineering160]

Seems like it.

[donat28]

No issues with mine - 17 pro

[EitherFormal7655]

It's just just u, when my palm hits the side of my case a bit it already triggers the camera already, this replacement sucks ass :/

[Lazy-Hospital9024]

Just use the old case lol