How To Stop Iphone Front Camera From Flipping

mirror-selfie — A selfie in default fashion (left) versus a selfie with Mirror Front Camera turned on (right).
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Apple'due south latest iPhone operating system, iOS 15.1, is now available to download (and iOS fifteen.two is only around the corner). The iOS 15 update brought features like ProRes for iPhone 13 Pro and an upgraded version of QuickTake for iPhones. But one smaller photographic camera feature, which has been around since iOS xiv, may make the biggest departure for your selfie needs: a setting called Mirror Front Photographic camera.

Read on for everything yous need to know nearly the Mirror Front end Camera feature, and how to employ information technology to up your selfie game.

What exactly does Mirror Front Photographic camera mean?

Yous may take already come up across this setting in your camera preferences and wondered what information technology was. When yous plough it on and alter to your front-facing camera, information technology will snap a photo that's your mirror epitome, instead of flipping it every bit the camera unremarkably does. Some people discover this jarring because the photo y'all take doesn't match the image you see in the viewfinder.

Ultimately, information technology may not change your selfie much, just I adopt the more familiar reversed version of my face up that I encounter in the mirror. Only go along in heed that other people -- who primarily don't see your face in a mirror -- might notice those selfies a little foreign considering it's a flipped version of what they're used to seeing.

How to use the Mirror Forepart Photographic camera feature on your iPhone

With iOS xiv (or xv) installed, the Mirror Front Camera setting is disabled by default. Hither's how to plow it on:

Become to Settings > Photographic camera. Under Composition, toggle Mirror Front Camera on. Head back to your camera app, turn the camera to face up yourself and snap a selfie. The saved prototype will appear equally yous see yourself in the mirror, instead of flipped as it usually is. Note that your front photographic camera automatically mirrors the forepart camera viewfinder, so this setting only affects the epitome that's saved to your photo library.

Here, yous can come across the side-by-side comparison of a regular selfie and 1 taken with Mirror Front Camera turned on.

iOS 14 camera mirror selfies — iOS 14 gives you lot the choice of mirroring your selfies (correct) or keeping them inverted (left).
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You can follow the same instructions to turn Mirror Front Camera off and go back to the default selfie setting.

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