I just use the default camera app. I like control as much as the next guy, but on a device where computation does so much of the work, I don’t think it’s all that helpful. I have ProCam, but I don’t really use it, the default camera and photos app is enough to get perfectly good photos.

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You’re not entirely wrong, both of those features have been specifically called out as sensitive to vibrations and more prone to failure. Some lenses, such as front-facing camera on most laptops and older iPhones, are fixed lenses that don’t move at all — so yes some of them work that way!

Nah. Flat surfaces like cars and built-in chargers work fine. Where I have the most issues is with mid-sized tabletop chargers. The distance between the phone and the charging pad isn’t the problem, the problem is that the camera bump tends to catch on the sides of the charger or falls over the side (depending on the design), leaving the phone too far out of alignment to charge effectively or even to be detected properly to start charging.

Here’s a look at all the different states I mentioned for both music and timer.

I do believe that there’s supposed to be a compact mode. It just seems to be faulty for music for me.

I feel like this doesn’t work as intended on the Pro Max, at least not with music. With the pro max, none of the status bar icons are hidden in the default music dynamic island configuration. Swiping in switches to the “compact” mode which actually takes up more space and hides the waveform. You can, however, pull and hold to temporarily collapse until you let go.

By contrast, this works as expected on the timer activity, where the countdown usually hides the signal strength indicator but unhides it when collapsed into the compact mode (which only shows the icon).