iOS 26 Camera App: Features, Settings, and other Updates
Jul 28, 2025
The iOS 26 camera app update comes with a number of visual changes that I like. In this video, I showcase the iOS 26 camera settings, features, and more. #ios26camerasettings #ios26camera #ioscameraupdate #ios26cameraapp
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[Music]
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iOS 26 brings a number of distinctive
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changes to the user interface of
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eligible iPhone models. It completely
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changes how iOS looks and feels and in
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some cases how it operates. The iPhone
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camera is one of the things that has
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changed with iOS 26. Apple has done
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pretty much a complete redesign of the
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camera app. Let's start by seeing how it
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works to switch through modes. Now, it
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may not be obvious to you that there are
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more modes than just photo and video
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here. But if you hold and move your
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finger horizontally, you can go from
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pano, portrait, photo, video, slow-mo,
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and lapse, time-lapse. And all you have
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to do is hold and slide horizontally
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to pick whatever photo mode or camera
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mode you're looking for. It's a nice
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touch to it. You can see how the liquid
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glass design actually comes into play
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there. If you pick say the portrait or
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the photo mode and you look in your top
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right corner, you can tap on this to
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reveal a number of options including
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what you do with the flash, live
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photography, timer, adjust your
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exposure, pick a filter, change the
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aspect ratio to make it all work. Again,
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you can see how the liquid glass display
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actually comes to play here. It's
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beautiful. It's user friendly for sure.
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If you also tap the lightning icon up
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here, you can change the setting for
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your flash instantly. Flash off, flash
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auto, flash off. Nice. Now, let's go to
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the video mode.
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Also up here you have access to a number
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of quick features, flash and exposure in
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this case. Now you also have access to
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turning your flash on and off as you
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wish. But perhaps the most interesting
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change here in the video mode is in the
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top left corner. When you tap on this,
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you immediately have access to changing
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the resolution of your video as well as
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the frame rate instantly. You can switch
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from HD to 4K video. You can switch from
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24 frames pers to 30 to 60 immediately
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and just go right back to recording your
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video. Of course, you can zoom in, zoom
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out depending on what you want to
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achieve. And this upper uh layer of
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settings are a common thing, a common
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theme through the new app. Again, in
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portrait mode, you can quickly adjust
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your flash, aperture, timer, exposure,
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filter, and all of that. In all, I think
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that the camera apps redesign is
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beautiful. It's well done, and you will
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like it. In slow-mo mode, again, you
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have this toggle that immediately gives
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you options to change a number of
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settings for the video. Also, in the top
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left corner, you can change the frame
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rate for your slow motion video
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instantly and then you record. Whichever
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mode you go into, these options are
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mostly there. some more than others, but
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they all work that way. If we switch to
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the selfie camera, you see the same
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options here. They show up here.
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Video,
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same options. And then that top left
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corner to change your resolution and
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frame rate works quite well. So, this is
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iOS 26, the camera app. It looks lovely.
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It's as simple as the iPhone camera has
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always been, but it works a little bit
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differently, significantly more in some
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areas, but yes, it works differently
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than it used to. It looks different, it
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works different, and it's a nice touch
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on the whole iOS 26 experience. Let me
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know what you think.
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