About the Camera features on your iPhone

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

Lock in your wait with Photographic Styles

With Photographic Styles on iPhone 13 models, you tin personalize the look of your images in the Camera app. Choose a preset — Rich Contrast, Vibrant, Warm, or Absurd — and if you desire, fine-tune information technology even further by adjusting the Tone and Warmth settings. Ready your fashion once to utilize your preferred style setting every time you take a photograph in Photo manner.

iPhone showing Camera app with four people in the viewfinder

Set upward a Photographic Style

When you open the Camera app for the first fourth dimension, tap Set up to choose your Photographic Manner. Swipe through the different styles and tap Use [Style Proper noun] on the preset that yous similar.

Make sure to ready your manner before you first taking photos — you lot can't add together your Photographic Style to a photo afterwards you've already taken it.

Capture close-ups with macro photos and video

iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max innovate macro photography, using the new Ultra Wide photographic camera with advanced lens and machine-focus system for stunning close-ups with sharp focus as close as 2 centimeters. iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max can also shoot macro videos, including dull-movement and time-lapse.

Shooting macro in Photo and Video modes is automatic — just move your iPhone close to the subject field and the photographic camera will automatically switch to the Ultra Broad photographic camera if it'south not selected, while maintaining your framing. To shoot macro wearisome-motion or time-lapse videos, select the Ultra Wide photographic camera (.5x) and movement close to the subject.

Yous might run into the Camera app transition to the Ultra Wide photographic camera as you motility your iPhone close to or away from a bailiwick. You can control automatic macro switching by going to Settings > Camera, then turning on Macro Command. With Macro Command on, your Camera app displays a macro push  when your iPhone is within macro distance of a bailiwick. Tap the macro button to turn off automatic macro switching, and tap it once again to turn automatic macro switching back on.

If you turn on Macro Control, automatic macro switching is enabled the next fourth dimension you utilize the photographic camera within macro distance. If you want to maintain your Macro Control setting betwixt photographic camera sessions, go to Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings and plough on Macro Control.

Grab a video with QuickTake

You lot can use QuickTake to record videos without switching out of photo mode. QuickTake is bachelor on iPhone XS, iPhone XR, and later.

iPhone showing a video being taken with QuickTake

Hold the shutter to take a video

When you open the Camera app, you encounter the default photo mode. Tap the Shutter button to take a photograph. Then tap the arrow to adjust options, similar flash, Live Photos, timer, and more.

If yous want to capture a QuickTake video, just press and hold the Shutter push .* Release the button to cease recording.

With iOS xiv and later on, you lot can agree one of the Book buttons to capture a QuickTake video. If you have Use Volume Up for Burst enabled, y'all can utilise the Volume downwards button to capture a QuickTake video.

Slide to the right to lock recording

To keep recording video without having to hold the push, slide the Shutter button  to the right, so release information technology. When video recording is locked, a Shutter button appears to the right. Tap the Shutter button  to accept a all the same photo during video recording. When you lot're ready to end recording, tap the tape button.

Slide to the left for flare-up manner

Slide the Shutter button  to the left and hold it to take a burst of photos, then release it to stop.

With iOS xiv and later, you can capture photos in flare-up mode by pressing the Volume upwardly push. Simply go to Settings > Camera and turn on Utilize Volume Up for Burst.

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

Adjust your focus and exposure

Before you accept a photograph, the camera automatically sets the focus and exposure, and face detection balances the exposure beyond many faces. You tin use Exposure Compensation Control to precisely set and lock the exposure for upcoming shots.

Just tap the arrow, then tap and adjust your exposure level. The exposure locks until the side by side time you open the Photographic camera app.

Exposure Bounty Command is bachelor on iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and later with iOS 14 or after.

Accept a mirrored selfie

With iOS fourteen and later, you can accept a mirrored selfie that captures the shot as yous run across it in the camera frame. To turn Mirror Front Camera on, go to Settings > Photographic camera, then turn on the setting.

The Mirror Front Camera for photograph and video is available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR, and later. If you lot have an iPhone 6s to iPhone X, the setting is called Mirror Front Photos and captures photos merely.

Capture photos even faster

You tin can use Prioritize Faster Shooting to modify how images are processed, allowing yous to capture more photos when y'all rapidly tap the Shutter button . To turn this off, get to Settings > Camera, and turn off Prioritize Faster Shooting.

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

Enhance your selfies and Ultra Broad photos

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

Lens Correction is bachelor on iPhone 12 models and later on.

Do more with the camera on your iPhone

  • Demand to capture photos in depression-lighting atmospheric condition? Larn how to use Nighttime Way on supported iPhone models.
  • Employ Live Photos to capture moments with movement and audio.

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