Pavel Jelic The operating systems iOS and iPadOS 14 brought various improvements on almost all possible fronts. Privacy pedants, users disadvantaged in various ways, photographers and others have had their share. If you like to take pictures with your iPhone, you can look forward to several new functions in iOS 14 that you will probably use. Let's take a look together in this article at 5 new features in Camera in iOS 14 that you might not have known about.
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Sequence by holding down the volume up button
As you probably know, you can take a sequence of photos very easily on your iPhone. Thanks to the photo sequence, you can take several photos per second, which is useful, for example, if you want to capture a moment and want to be more likely to capture it correctly. Classically, to start the sequence, you need to go to the Camera application, specifically to the Photo section. Here, then hold your finger on the shutter button for as long as you want to shoot the sequence. Creating a sequence using the on-screen shutter button isn't always ideal, though—new in iOS 14, you can hold the volume up button to start the sequence. This function must be activated in Settings -> Camera, where activate possibility Sequence with the volume up button. By pressing the volume down button, you can then quickly start recording QuickTake video, of course on devices that support it.
Shooting in 16:9 ratio
With the arrival of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro (Max), we finally got a redesign of the native Camera app. On the mentioned iPhones, in addition to the night mode, you could also use the new environment for setting the LED flash, or perhaps for changing the aspect ratio - from 4:3 to 16:9, for example. Fortunately, however, Apple wised up and with the arrival of iOS 14 added this option to devices a generation older, i.e. iPhone XR or XS (Max), together with SE (2020). If you want to switch the ratio of the photos taken on these devices, all you have to do is open the Camera, then after the display swipe up from the bottom. Then click on the button below in the menu 4:3 and choose the aspect ratio, in this case so 16:9. In addition to these two options, there is another available Square, so 1:1. When choosing a ratio, it is necessary to take into account where you will place the photos.
Mirroring photos from the front camera
If you take a photo from the front camera on your iPhone, it will be automatically flipped. From the point of view of preserving the fidelity of the photo, this is of course good (just as if you were looking in a mirror), in any case, this setting may not suit everyone. For most users, the photo does not look so good after being flipped, and in the end, many individuals simply flipped it in Photos. However, with the arrival of iOS 14, users can disable the automatic flip. In this case, you just need to move to the application Settings, where to get off below and open the section Camera. Here you only need to function Mirror front camera to disable flipping activated.
A (dis)preference for taking pictures quickly
As part of iOS 14, Apple also boasts that starting the Camera application and taking the first picture is up to 25% faster. Taking photos as such is then 90% faster and taking multiple portraits in a row is 25% faster, which is definitely great especially in cases where you need to take a quick photo. You can make the camera even faster after that thanks to the special function Prioritize quick picture taking, which is active by default. Thanks to this function, you are able to take individual pictures much faster, but on the other hand, in this case, the iPhone does not care so much about editing the background photo to make it look even better. If you care more about the quality of the photos and the quantity is not so important to you, you can disable this feature. Just go to Settings, where you click the option Camera. Finally here deactivate function Prioritize taking pictures quickly.
QuickTake for older models
In one of the paragraphs above, I mentioned that the arrival of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro (Max) also brought improvements to the native Camera application, anyway only for the mentioned latest models. iOS 14 then extends these features to older iPhones XR and XS (Max), as well as the iPhone SE (2020). All of these mentioned models are also capable of recording QuickTake video easily. This comes in handy when you need to start filming as quickly as possible. Traditionally, you would have to open the Camera and switch to the Video section, but thanks to QuickTake, that's all you need hold your finger on the shutter button in Photo mode, which will start recording immediately. Swipe your finger towards right on the lock icon then you will lock the video recording and you will be able to lift your finger from the display. The sequence can then be created simply by holding down the volume up button, see one of the paragraphs above.
I also found out and didn't know that you just need to press and hold the volume down button to record a video.
And how about adding to the 16:9 ratio the information that it is a cut from a 4:3 photo? This is quite misleading information as you don't state that using 16:9 reduces the megapixels (ie the resolution of the photo). The square does the same, of course, but it's been there since ancient times.
As far as I know, this is the case with absolutely all phones.
However, it would be professional to mention it. For example, I did not know about this even in connection with the square cutout.
I have iOS 14,1 and I don't have this mirroring option :(