2023 Author: Gordon Kinson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-06-01 01:17
IPhone photo enthusiasts have long complained about the inability of the Camera app to take mirrored selfies. This is a little confusing, because in the viewfinder we see exactly our mirror image. Fortunately, iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 (a detailed overview of new features) managed to fix this camera behavior. As a result, our photos now look exactly the same as in the viewfinder when shooting with the front camera. Here's how to take mirrored selfies on iPhone.
Why do your selfies turn upside down?
It took quite a few years, but Apple eventually added a mirroring switch to its camera settings. Now the user can choose between a DSLR or non-reflective photo from their front camera. This new and useful setting is available on any iPhone and iPod touch with iOS 14 software, and iPadOS 14 compatible iPads.
But why is there a mirror image in the iPhone's viewfinder at all? The simple answer is that before selfies appeared, we were all used to seeing our reflections in mirrors and other similar surfaces that form an image with upside down left and right sides.
So the viewfinder in the Camera app just displays what we're used to seeing.
Prior to iOS 14, images captured with the front camera had their original, non-mirrored composition. As a result, your photo was exactly what the camera saw at the time of shooting, and not what you saw in the viewfinder. Needless to say, this state of affairs can hardly be called ideal.
When is it better to give up a mirror selfie
In the event that there are inscriptions or trademarks in the frame, then a mirror selfie may look ridiculous, since the image will be inverted (in the photo below there is a girl in the store of the American cosmetics company NYX).
How to take a mirror selfie manually
In iOS 13 and earlier, it was possible to manually mirror your selfies after the photo was taken. The editing tools in the Photos app made it pretty easy to do this. Typically, users would bring up the Crop tool and click the icon in the upper left corner, which resembles a pair of triangles with an arrow above them, to flip any saved selfie.
You can still manually mirror your selfies, but iOS and iPadOS 14 have a handy new toggle that allows you to configure the camera to save your selfies as mirroring according to the front camera preview.
We'll show you how you can customize the behavior of your iPhone's camera so that it takes selfies in the way you want by default.
How to take mirrored selfies on iPhone and iPad automatically?
Follow these steps to take mirrored selfies on your iPhone or iPad camera:
1. Open "Settings" on your device.
2. Select the "Camera" section from the main list.
3. Set the Front Camera Mirror Switch to On.
From now on, the Camera application will save selfies in a mirror image.
In other words, the photo you take with the front (front) camera will now match what you saw in the viewfinder when you took that selfie, rather than being saved upside down.
See also:
- How to pass a Wi-Fi password to guests without telling it (QR code).
- In iOS 14, at the top of the screen, a green or orange indicator lights up: what are they for?
- Tap on iPhone Cover - Take a screenshot: How to bind actions to tap on the back of an iPhone.
