How to Use the iPhone and iPad Camera Zoom Feature
There is a saying in photography that the best camera is the one you have with you the most. For many people, that’s the camera on their smartphone.Fortunately, if you have an iPhone, your phone’s camera is pretty impressive. Modern iPhone models support cameras that rival standalone devices that cost thousands.
iOS Cameras
The iPhone camera has evolved tremendously over the years. The original iPhone took photos but didn’t do much more. The iPhone 4 added important features like flash and zoom, while the iPhone 5 brought support for panoramic images. Later models added burst mode, portrait mode, and much more. The iPhone camera can zoom in and out with ease. Doing so is much like how you zoom in on web pages, pictures, etc.
How to enable pinch zoom on iOS devices
The pinch gesture is the best way for zooming into the iOS devices. It is a digital zoom feature that allows you to zoom in the image. iPhone and iPads enable to zoom up to ten times according to its image resolution.
Just launch the camera application of your iPhone and point the camera on the image that you want to capture.
Keep two fingers simultaneously on the part of your screen that you want to zoom into.
Now spread both of your fingers apart simultaneously to zoom in.
If you have reached the maximum extended limit of zoom in, bringing down both of your fingers in the pinching mode.
If you got your desired image magnification posture, tap on the iPhone screen to capture it.
Steps to apply zoom-in feature with the help of slider on your iOS device
In case you have an iOS device prior to iPhone 7, you have to use pinch-zoom gesture on it. You will find that the slider appears on either side of your device screen. You may capture a more précise zoom image by these steps:
1. To use the zoom slider tool, you have to apply pinch gesture function to your image.
2.In order to perform zoom in and out function with the help of slider, you have to move the zoom slider circle slowly from one side to the other by holding it.
3. Once you reached the magnification level that you want, tap on the iPhone screen one time to capture the image.
2x optical zoom feature on iPhone Camera
An excellent optical zoom feature has been assembled inside the camera function of iOS smartphones like iPhone 7 and its following models-providing you better image quality and resolution with two-times zoom in feature.
1. Tap the Camera app on your device and point toward the picture you want to click.
2. Hit on the small circle indicating the symbol “1 x”.
3. Now hit on the “1 x” (one-time zoom circle).
4. The circle will change into “2x” and the image becomes larger.
Zooming an iOS device using the slider
Just touch on the1x symbol (optical zoom) keep it pressed to apply the zoom slider tool in new models of iPhone.
If you tap on either of the 1x or 2x sign, a mini zoom slider tool will display at the bottom of your screen.
In order to perform the zoom in and out function, let’s move the slider button from one side to the other.
When you move the slider button with the help of your fingertips, you will examine that the magnification level will increase according to the resolution of the image.
You have to mind that if you increase the zoom magnification level above two times, it will be considered as a digital zoom.
Ava Williams is a Norton product expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Ava has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as norton.com/setup.
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