Take and edit photos on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Larn how to take and edit photos on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

iPad Pro and iPhone both with Camera app open framing the same object

Open your Camera app

There are a few ways to open your Photographic camera app.

Home screen

From your Home screen, tap the Camera app.

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Control Centre

Open Control Middle, then tap the Photographic camera button .

iPhone Control Center screen with camera icon enlarged

Lock screen

Swipe to the left to access the Photographic camera, or touch and hold the Photographic camera button.

iPhone lock screen with camera icon enlarged

Have a photo or video

Take loftier-quality photos with the avant-garde technologies built into your device. Just find your subject, open the Camera app, then tap the shutter button.

So unleash your inventiveness with Camera features similar Alive Photos, Portrait style, photographic camera filters, and more. You can even capture photos with time-lapse, slo-mo, pano, and more than. Learn more than about the camera features on your iPhone.

iPhone with Camera app open to take a photo

Flash button icon

Flash: The LED flash on your device gives your photo extra light when yous need it. Tap the Flash button  to turn it on or off.

Live Photo button icon

Live Photos: You tin capture life as it happens — in move and sound. Live Photos is on by default. Tap the Alive Photos button to turn it off.

Timer button icon

Timer: Prepare your device somewhere sturdy, frame your shot, then tap the timer button . Choose a three or ten 2d countdown, tap the Shutter push button, then step into the frame.

front-facing camera button icon

Front-facing camera: To take a selfie with your front-facing camera, tap the front-facing camera push, find a good angle, and then tap the shutter button. With iPhone 6s and later, yous tin can use the Abode Screen every bit a flash for your selfies.

shutter button icon

Flare-up: Trying to capture a movie but your subject matter won't stay notwithstanding? Attempt flare-up mode. Simply tap and concord the shutter button. Outburst way takes multiple photos at once then that you have a range of photos to cull from. On iPhone 11 and later, slide the shutter button to the left and concur information technology to accept a outburst of photos, then release it to cease.

zoom button icon

On your iPhone vii Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, or iPhone 10 and later, tap 1x for a higher-quality zoom from further away. If y'all want to zoom more than 2x or finely control the prototype, touch and concur 1x or 2x to get a slider that lets you zoom all the way to 10x. On iPhone eleven and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), and iPad Pro 11-inch (second generation), zoom out to .5x with the Ultra Wide camera.

Edit your photograph or video

After you take your photo or video, open it in the Photos app and tap Edit. Then you can adjust the ingather, bending, light, add a filter, and more. Choose an adjustment, like Brightness or Saturation, and slide to change the strength and intensity. If you lot don't like how your changes expect, tap Cancel and revert dorsum to the original.

iPhone with Photo edit screen shown

Adjust button icon

Suit light and color

Improve the exposure, saturation, highlights, warmth, tint, and more than of your photos and videos. Then use the slider to make precise adjustments with each setting.

Camera filters button icon

Apply filters

Tap one of the photo filters to give your photograph a different color upshot, such as Bright or Dramatic. Or attempt archetype black and white looks like Mono and Silvertone.

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Ingather and straighten

You can drag the corners of the grid tool to ready your own ingather, then move the wheel to tilt or straighten your photo or video. You can also rotate or flip your photo or video, and adjust the vertical and horizontal perspective.

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