How do I set up the iPhone Action Button for Vozzle?
The Action Button is on iPhone 15 Pro and later. Open the iPhone Settings app, tap Action Button, swipe to Shortcut, choose "Launch Vozzle", then decide what it does in Vozzle's own Settings > Action Button (default: Voice command). After that, a squeeze opens Vozzle straight to its voice-capture sheet and it starts listening right away. From the on-screen Speak button you can also long-press for the Snap, Meet, Ask, and Prompt modes. Setup is free.
Here's how
Open Vozzle's Action Button settings
In Vozzle, open Settings > Action Button and tap Open iPhone Settings. iOS deep-links you to Vozzle's OWN settings page (not the Action Button page directly), so tap the back arrow once to reach the top-level Settings list. The hardware Action Button only exists on iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max and iPhone 16 models.
Tap Action Button
In the iPhone Settings app, tap Action Button, swipe across the carousel to the Shortcut card, then tap Choose a Shortcut. Shortcut is the only mode that can hand the press off to a third-party app like Vozzle.
Pick Launch Vozzle
Select "Launch Vozzle" so a squeeze opens the app. The press fires an App Intent that runs in its own process, so it can't reach the running app directly — it arms a one-shot trigger that Vozzle reads within ~30 seconds of coming to the foreground, then performs your action.
Choose what it does
Back in Vozzle's Settings > Action Button, pick the single preset the squeeze runs: Voice command (default), Just open Vozzle, Start a meeting, Start travel mode, New note, or New task. This choice is stored in the App Group so both the intent and the app agree on it; the button always runs exactly this one action.
If you keep the default Voice command, you don't have to aim at any specific feature: Vozzle hears what you say, classifies it, and files it as a task, calendar event, or note automatically — so one squeeze plus a sentence like "remind me to call Sam Thursday" lands in the right place without you opening anything.
Worth knowing
- Listens on openThe voice sheet calls startListening() in onAppear, so dictation begins the instant it appears — start talking before you've finished raising the phone rather than waiting for a tap.
- ~30-second handoff windowBecause the Intent runs out-of-process, it leaves a timestamped trigger the app reads on foreground; a trigger older than 30 seconds or already consumed is ignored, so a normal launch or an old press never fires a surprise action.
- Prompt mode is clipboard-onlyIf you long-press into Prompt mode, the cleaned result is copied to the clipboard with no saved entity and nothing to sync — paste it into your favorite AI app, and there's nothing to delete afterward.
- One preset, not a menuThe Action Button can hold only a single action; to reach a different capture mode mid-task you open the app and long-press the on-screen Speak button instead of re-configuring the button.
While you're here
How are the squeeze's Voice command and the on-screen Speak button's Snap, Meet, Ask, Prompt modes related?
They're two different layers. The Action Button runs exactly one preset you chose (default: Voice command), which opens Vozzle straight to the listening sheet. Snap, Meet, Ask, and Prompt are a separate fan-out menu that appears only when you long-press the on-screen Speak button after the app is open — the hardware button can't reach them directly.
Can the Action Button start a meeting or travel mode directly?
Yes — set the preset to Start a meeting or Start travel mode and the squeeze jumps straight in, skipping the voice sheet. Travel mode opens for everyone, but its spoken read-out ("Hear them" / "Speak to them") is a Pro-and-up feature. One nuance: free users still holding trial credits get to taste read-out against that trial pool; once trials run out (and for Starter subscribers) you'll see the live translation on screen but it won't read aloud.
Do I need a paid plan, and does each squeeze cost an AI credit?
Setup and the Just open / New note / New task presets are free and use no AI. Voice command is a Starter-tier AI feature, but free users get 10 lifetime trial credits to try it before it's metered — so an idle squeeze that just opens the sheet costs nothing; a credit is only spent when you actually let it process speech into an item, and consumption is tracked server-side.
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