iPhone 17 brings a new feature that Samsung users have had for a decade

On Tuesday, Apple launched a new lineup of smartphones, the iPhone 17 series, featuring four models: iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. These phones bring many upgrades over their predecessors. 

One of them is Dual Capture, which can simultaneously record videos from the front and rear cameras. While that’s great, did you know that Samsung has been offering this feature on Galaxy smartphones for more than ten years now?

In 2013, Samsung launched the Galaxy S4, which brought many upgrades over its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. One of them was a feature called Dual Shot. It allowed users to take a photo or record a video with the front and rear cameras at the same time.

Photos and videos taken in Dual Shot show the view from the front and rear cameras in a single frame. Since then, Samsung has been offering this feature on all the high-end Galaxy smartphones, including Galaxy S and Galaxy Z series phones.

In the latest flagship Galaxy phones, Samsung offers this feature as Dual Rec, which lets you select any two camera lenses to record with at the same time. On some phones, you get Director's View mode, which can capture videos from multiple cameras and also lets you switch between different cameras on the fly. Both models support picture-in-picture and split-screen view.

People usually blame Samsung for copying Apple, but it is also the other way around very often. Another example of that is the iPhone Air, for which Apple followed in Samsung’s footsteps. The Galaxy S25 Edge was first to market and despite that, it is superior to the iPhone Air in many aspects, including display size, number of cameras, battery capacity, and even battery endurance.