About the Camera features on your iPhone

Acquire well-nigh Photographic Styles, QuickTake, the Ultra Wide photographic camera, and other camera features on your iPhone.

Lock in your look with Photographic Styles

With Photographic Styles on iPhone 13 models, you can personalize the look of your images in the Photographic camera app. Choose a preset — Rich Contrast, Vibrant, Warm, or Cool — and if you desire, fine-tune information technology even further past adjusting the Tone and Warmth settings. Fix your style once to use your preferred fashion setting every time you take a photo in Photo way.

iPhone showing Camera app with four people in the viewfinder

Set upwards a Photographic Style

When you open the Camera app for the get-go time, tap Set Up to choose your Photographic Style. Swipe through the dissimilar styles and tap Apply [Style Name] on the preset that you similar.

Make sure to set your fashion earlier yous start taking photos — you can't add your Photographic Style to a photograph afterward 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 camera with advanced lens and auto-focus arrangement for stunning close-ups with sharp focus as close as 2 centimeters. iPhone xiii Pro and iPhone xiii Pro Max can also shoot macro videos, including slow-motility and time-lapse.

Shooting macro in Photograph and Video modes is automatic — just motion your iPhone close to the subject and the camera will automatically switch to the Ultra Wide camera if information technology'southward not selected, while maintaining your framing. To shoot macro irksome-motion or fourth dimension-lapse videos, select the Ultra Wide camera (.5x) and move close to the discipline.

You lot might see the Camera app transition to the Ultra Wide camera as y'all move your iPhone shut to or away from a field of study. You can control automated macro switching by going to Settings > Photographic camera, then turning on Macro Control. With Macro Command on, your Camera app displays a macro button  when your iPhone is inside macro distance of a bailiwick. Tap the macro button to plow off automatic macro switching, and tap it again to turn automatic macro switching dorsum on.

If yous turn on Macro Control, automatic macro switching is enabled the adjacent time you use the camera within macro distance. If you want to maintain your Macro Command setting betwixt camera sessions, go to Settings > Photographic camera > Preserve Settings and plow on Macro Control.

Grab a video with QuickTake

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

iPhone showing a video being taken with QuickTake

Concord the shutter to accept a video

When y'all open the Photographic camera app, you see the default photo mode. Tap the Shutter button to accept a photo. So tap the arrow to conform options, like wink, Live Photos, timer, and more.

If you lot want to capture a QuickTake video, just printing and concur the Shutter button .* Release the button to stop recording.

With iOS fourteen and later on, you tin agree one of the Book buttons to capture a QuickTake video. If you take Utilise Volume Up for Flare-up enabled, you can use the Volume downward button to capture a QuickTake video.

Slide to the right to lock recording

To proceed recording video without having to hold the button, slide the Shutter push  to the right, then release it. When video recording is locked, a Shutter push appears to the correct. Tap the Shutter button  to take a nonetheless photo during video recording. When you lot're ready to cease recording, tap the tape push.

Slide to the left for flare-up style

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

With iOS 14 and afterwards, you tin capture photos in burst fashion by pressing the Volume up button. Only go to Settings > Camera and turn on Use Book Upward for Outburst.

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

Adjust your focus and exposure

Before you accept a photo, the camera automatically sets the focus and exposure, and confront detection balances the exposure across many faces. You lot tin apply Exposure Compensation Command to precisely set and lock the exposure for upcoming shots.

Just tap the arrow, so tap and conform your exposure level. The exposure locks until the next fourth dimension yous open the Camera app.

Exposure Compensation Control is available on iPhone 11, iPhone eleven Pro, and later with iOS xiv or after.

Accept a mirrored selfie

With iOS 14 and afterwards, you can accept a mirrored selfie that captures the shot equally you encounter it in the camera frame. To plow Mirror Front Photographic camera on, go to Settings > Camera, then turn on the setting.

The Mirror Front end Camera for photo and video is available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR, and after. If yous have an iPhone 6s to iPhone 10, the setting is called Mirror Front Photos and captures photos but.

Capture photos even faster

Yous tin can use Prioritize Faster Shooting to modify how images are processed, allowing yous to capture more photos when you rapidly tap the Shutter button . To plow this off, get to Settings > Camera, and plough off Prioritize Faster Shooting.

Prioritize Faster Shooting is available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR, and later with iOS fourteen or later.

Enhance your selfies and Ultra Wide photos

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

Lens Correction is available on iPhone 12 models and afterward.

Do more with the camera on your iPhone

  • Need to capture photos in low-lighting conditions? Learn how to apply Night Mode on supported iPhone models.
  • Utilize Live Photos to capture moments with movement and sound.

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