You're Not Making the Most of Your iPhone Camera

The iPhone utilized to person 1 of the simplest camera layouts of immoderate smartphone. Over the past mates of years, however, arsenic the iPhone’s camera grew bigger and better, Apple added much and much features, buttons, and settings until it became a bit...bogged down. The iPhone’s camera app is owed for a large redesign, but until then, you’ll request to navigate this progressively analyzable system.

While you mightiness beryllium acquainted capable with the basics, similar switching to representation mode oregon shooting a panorama, we’ll locomotion done immoderate of the different options you mightiness not beryllium taking vantage of.

How to power betwixt ultra-wide and telephoto connected iPhone

Apple touts 3 antithetic cameras connected the iPhone Pro models: the regular wide camera, ultra-wide, and the telephoto (zoom) lens. But successful the iPhone’s camera interface, they are worded differently. In fact, you power betwixt these cameras (and you tin bash truthful successful astir camera modes) utilizing the zoom feature.

“1X” is the regular camera, “0.5X” is for the ultra-wide, and if you person a telephoto lens, it’s the “2X,” “2.5X,” oregon “3X” button. You’ll find these buttons close implicit the camera modes. You tin besides swipe near oregon close successful this abstraction to zoom successful oregon retired anyplace betwixt the 0.5x to 3x range, oregon pinch connected the viewfinder.

Just enactment that if you zoom retired immoderate farther than these ranges, your iPhone volition commencement digitally zooming. If your iPhone lone zooms to 2.5X, for example, it won’t beryllium capable to physically zoom retired immoderate further; each the “zooming” that’s happening beyond that scope is digital, which results successful a lower-quality image.

How to find and usage options successful the iPhone camera app

Apple’s solution to wherever to enactment its ever-increasing camera options is to expanse them distant nether the rug. In this case, the “rug” is the camera paper (you’ll lone find the Flash, Night Mode, ProRAW, and Live Photos astatine the top). When you unfastened the Camera app successful the Photo oregon Portrait mode, you’ll spot a small Up arrow astatine the top. Tap connected it, and a caller paper volition look successful spot of the camera modes.

This is wherever you’ll find astir of the options for the camera mode you’re in. Here’s a rundown of the options successful the Photo mode:

• Flash: Here, you tin acceptable the flash to “On”, “Off”, oregon “Auto” mode.
• Night mode: Here, you tin disable the Night mode, oregon you tin alteration the timing (more connected the Night mode later).
• Live Photos: You tin take betwixt the “Auto”, “On”, oregon “Off” modes.
• Photographic Styles: This is simply a caller camera diagnostic for iPhone 13 and supra (more astir it here). The iPhone camera volition present fto you customize the code and warmth settings for photos, and you tin acceptable them arsenic defaults going forward.
• Aspect ratio: By default, the iPhone shoots images astatine a 4:3 ratio, similar it ever has. But if you’re looking for a much cinematic feel, oregon if you privation to station photos connected Instagram Stories, you’ll beryllium amended disconnected with a 16:9 facet ratio. You tin take betwixt “Square”, “4:3", and “16:9" facet ratios from here.
• Exposure: Here, you tin acceptable and fastener the exposure. You astir apt don’t request to interest astir this setting, arsenic the iPhone does a bully occupation of mounting the exposure. But if you want, you tin take immoderate vulnerability betwixt -2.0 and 2.0 (0.0 being the default).
• Timer: From here, you tin rapidly acceptable a timer for 3 seconds oregon 10 seconds.
• Filters: The iPhone’s aged filters are inactive here. They’re conscionable hidden successful the past fastener successful the options menu. Here you’ll find the trusty Vibrant, Warm, and Cool filters, among others.

How to alteration solution successful video

Previously, you had to unfastened the Settings app to power the video solution connected the iPhone camera. Now you tin bash it from the Camera app itself.

Switch to the “Video” mode, and you’ll find 2 antithetic buttons successful the top-right corner. By default, the video is captured astatine HD and 30fps. But you tin pat these buttons to power to 4K and 60 fps, arsenic well. You tin larn much astir shooting successful afloat solution connected iPhone from our usher here.

How to disable nighttime mode

The Night mode connected the iPhone camera app tin bash a stellar occupation successful the close conditions. It tin besides beryllium an annoyance erstwhile it turns connected conscionable due to the fact that there’s immoderate shadow. There’s nary wide “off” power for the Night mode, since the diagnostic seems to footwear into cogwheel automatically, but determination is simply a mode to disable it.

Open the “Settings” app connected your iPhone, and spell to “Camera.” Go to “Preserve Settings,” and pat the toggle adjacent to “Night Mode.” Now, the camera won’t automatically alteration the Night mode settings; spell backmost to the iPhone Camera app, pat the Night mode fastener from the options menu, and take “Off.” Now the Night mode is disabled for good.

How to rapidly grounds video connected iPhone

Want to rapidly seizure video erstwhile you’re successful the Photo mode? Just property and clasp the shutter button. And arsenic agelong arsenic you support holding it, the iPhone volition proceed to grounds the video. You tin adjacent swipe close to power wholly to the video mode.

This adjacent works with the Volume buttons. As you mightiness already know, pressing the Volume fastener successful the Camera app volition click a photo. If you property and clasp the Volume button, you tin grounds a video for arsenic agelong arsenic you’re holding the button. We screen all the ways to sprout video rapidly connected your iPhone successful our usher here.

How to instrumentality burst photos connected iPhone

If pressing and holding the shutter fastener shoots a video, however bash you instrumentality burst mode photos now? Tap and clasp the shutter button, and swipe left. There’s besides an enactment successful the Settings app to instrumentality burst mode photos utilizing the Volume Up button. To alteration this, spell to Settings > Camera > Use Volume Up for Burst.