Most Photographic camera features on your iPhone

Find out about Photographic Styles, QuickTake, the Ultra Wide camera and other photographic camera features on your iPhone.

Lock in your expect with Photographic Styles

With Photographic Styles on iPhone 13 models, you can personalise the look of your images in the Camera app. Cull a preset – Rich Contrast, Vibrant, Warm or Cool – and decide if you want to fine-tune it even further by adjusting the Tone and Warmth settings. Prepare your manner one time to utilize your preferred style setting every time you take a photo in Photo fashion.

iPhone showing Camera app with four people in the viewfinder

Set up a Photographic Fashion

When you open the Camera app for the get-go time, tap Set up to choose your Photographic Mode. Swipe through the different styles and tap Utilise [Style Name] on the preset yous like.

Brand certain you've set your fashion before you outset taking photos – y'all can't add together your Photographic Style to a photo subsequently you've already taken information technology.

Capture close-ups with macro photos and videos

iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max introduce macro photography, using the new Ultra Broad camera with avant-garde lens and machine-focus arrangement for stunning close-ups with sharp focus as shut as ii centimetres. iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max can also shoot macro videos, including slow motion and time lapse.

Shooting macro in Photo and Video modes is automatic – just move your iPhone close to the subject and the camera will switch to the Ultra Wide camera automatically if information technology's non already selected, while maintaining your framing. To shoot macro slow motility or fourth dimension lapse videos, select the Ultra Wide camera (.5x) and movement close to the subject field.

You may see the Camera app transition to the Ultra Wide camera equally yous move your iPhone close to or away from a bailiwick. You tin control automated macro switching past going to Settings > Camera, then turning on Macro Control. With Macro Command turned on, your Camera app volition brandish a macro button  when your iPhone is within macro distance of a field of study. Tap the macro button to turn off automated macro switching, and tap information technology once again to turn automatic macro switching back on.

If yous plough on Macro Control, automatic macro switching volition be enabled the side by side time you lot use the camera inside macro distance. If you desire to maintain your Macro Control setting between camera sessions, go to Settings > Photographic camera > Preserve Settings and turn on Macro Control.

Record a video with QuickTake

Y'all can utilise QuickTake to tape videos without having to switch out of photo mode. QuickTake is available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR and later.

iPhone showing a video being taken with QuickTake

Hold the shutter to take a video

When yous open the Camera app, you volition encounter the default photo fashion. Tap the Shutter push to take a photo. Then tap the arrow to adjust diverse options, including the wink, Live Photos, timer and more.

If you want to capture a QuickTake video, just press and concord the Shutter button .* Release the button to terminate recording.

With iOS 14 and later, you can concord one of the Volume buttons to capture a QuickTake video. If you have Use Volume Up for Outburst enabled, you lot can use the Volume down button to capture a QuickTake video.

Slide to the right to lock recording

To proceed recording video without having to hold the push button, slide the Shutter push button  to the correct, then release it. When video recording is locked, a Shutter button appears to the right. Tap the Shutter button  to accept a withal photo during video recording. When y'all're set up to stop recording, tap the record push.

Slide to the left for flare-up fashion

Slide the Shutter push button  to the left and hold it to have a burst of photos, then release information technology to stop.

With iOS 14 and later, you can capture photos in burst mode by pressing the Book up button. Just go to Settings > Camera and plough on Use Book Up for Flare-up.

* To take videos with customisable resolution, stereo audio and audio zoom, switch to Video style.

Adjust your focus and exposure

Before you accept a photo, the camera will set the focus and exposure automatically, and face up detection will balance the exposure beyond many faces. You tin can use Exposure Compensation Control to precisely ready and lock the exposure for upcoming shots.

Just tap the arrow, then tap and adjust your exposure level. The exposure level is locked until the side by side time yous open up the Camera app.

Exposure Compensation Control is bachelor on iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and later with iOS 14 or later.

Accept a mirrored selfie

With iOS fourteen and later, you lot can take a mirrored selfie, which will capture the shot as yous run across it in the camera frame. To turn Mirror Front Camera on, become to Settings > Camera, so turn on the setting.

The Mirror Forepart Camera is available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR and afterward, and tin can capture photos and videos. If you accept an iPhone 6s to iPhone X, the setting volition be called Mirror Front end Photos and volition only capture photos.

Capture photos even faster

Y'all tin use Prioritise Faster Shooting to alter how images are processed, allowing you to capture more photos when you lot chop-chop tap the Shutter button . To turn this off, go to Settings > Camera and turn off Prioritise Faster Shooting.

Prioritise Faster Shooting is bachelor on iPhone XS, iPhone XR and later with iOS 14 or later.

Enhance your selfies and Ultra Wide photos

With Lens Correction, when you lot take a selfie with the forepart-facing camera or a photo with the Ultra Wide (0.5x) lens, it automatically enhances the photos to brand them appear more natural. To turn this off, go to Settings > Camera and turn off Lens Correction.

Lens Correction is available on iPhone 12 models and later.

Do more with the photographic camera on your iPhone

  • Need to capture photos in low-calorie-free conditions? Observe out how to utilise Night Mode on supported iPhone models.
  • Use Live Photos to capture moments with motility and sound.

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