Taking a good one
No difficult settings are needed. But when you want to take care over it, you can.
Open the ⋯ at the top and six things sit together: flash, portrait, filter, timer, recording and location.
Portrait
Softens the background. The strength of the blur can still be adjusted after the shot, and that version is the one that gets saved and goes into the story.
Colour
Six tones to match the light of the day. You can choose again on the confirmation screen after the shot. A line sweeps across the seam, so you can see that it has changed.
Focus and brightness
Tap the screen to focus, and slide a finger to set the brightness. A long press locks the focus and the exposure where they are.
Zoom and flash
The zoom is stepless, with a slight catch under the finger at 1×, so it is easy to come back. The rear flash is the lamp; the front uses the screen itself as the light.
Taking one easily
So that nothing gets in the way at the moment you press.
The volume button as a shutter
The iPhone’s volume button takes the photo, so you need not be looking at the screen. On days with gloves, and on days too bright to see.
A timer that counts aloud
The five-second timer counts “3, 2, 1” in a voice, with a beat under your finger each second. When you want to be in the picture, you know the moment without watching the screen.
Held sideways
Turn the phone and the buttons and labels turn with it. For when a landscape wants to be wide.
Straight from the lock screen
A button in Control Centre or on the lock screen opens the camera at once, so the moment you wanted is not lost. How to set it up →
Keeping it
Something of the day stays with the photograph.
Place and weather
The name of the place you were in (down to a temple or a building), and the sky that day. Later, when a story gets written, these go straight into it.
Adding a voice
You can record a few words as you take the photo. A child’s voice, the sound of waves, how it felt just then — kept alongside the picture.
Bringing one in later
Photos already in your camera roll can be brought in afterwards, and the sky from the day they were taken comes with them.